Thanksgiving Trip to Kansas

Thanksgiving.

This post is long with lots of pictures. We left for our Thanksgiving trip the Friday before Thanksgiving so that we could have a nice long visit. We aren't making it back to KS for Christmas this year so we needed to squeeze all our holiday visit into one trip.

Stopped at a nice big park in Amarillo before eating dinner. A nice way to break up a long trip!

Feeding the ducks and geese at a park in Amarillo when we stopped for dinner. It was pretty windy but we enjoyed stretching our legs and getting some energy out!

One of the perks for Cami in our long travels is staying in a hotel on the way to KS. She is a little fish and just loves the water. First thing in the morning (6:45am) she gets out of bed and looks out the window and yells..."its morning we can go swimming now!"
More swimming at the hotel in OK. The perk for Mommy and daddy is she is pretty worn out when she gets in the car for that last 5 hours of our drive!

Leaf Jumping!
Going to find some cows with Daddy and Papa

Grandma getting some snuggle time with Cam while watching Cinderella 2

I bought Matt tickets to catch a K-State Basketball game while we were in KS. Matt and I were able to steal away up to Manhattan and left the kiddo with Grandma and Papa. It was a great little get away for Matt and I. We were able to catch up with a few of Matt's old friends, do some kid free Christmas shopping and cheer on the wildcats!

Luckily while we were in KS, the weather was actually very nice for the end of November. This meant that we were able to play outside pretty much everyday that we were there. We played in the leaves, rode the tractor, the big kids hit golf balls and played in the timber and we played lots of hackey dodge ball. What is hackey dodge ball you ask....well its a combo of hackey sack and dodge ball. It was so fun.
Cami and Josh were too little to play hackey dodge ball, so Cami improvised and just chased the ball where ever it happened to go!
Paige and Cami
Papa and Cami having what looks to be a pretty serious conversation.
Hackey Dodge Ball. Parker with Uncle Eric looking on

Carter
Crazy cousins...and Uncle Eric
Playing in the leaves
Cami's thanksgiving outfit! Thanks Michele for the adorable shirt!
Cami got to ride/ drive the tractor. She LOVES this! She literally had a huge smile glued to her face the entire time!

Papa and Cami heading back towards the house after a ride.
After a ride around the pasture.
Big shot Farm girl. This is one of her favorite parts of being at Grandma and Papa's house.
Grandma bought some gingerbread kits for the cousins to work on. This was a big hit, although I must say I think Cami and Josh ate more candy than they put on they're houses.

Cami working on her house and surveying all the candy in front of her.

Uncle Matt reading to Cami and Joshy. There was also a twinkle, twinkle little start concert, which was adorable.
Celebrating Papa's birthday. Josh and Cami helped Papa blow out his candles.
I'm not really sure what was going on in this picture. But it is obviously some kind of slumber party in Grandma and Papa's room! In this picture is Papa and the 4 youngest cousins.
We had a mini-Christmas. Since we won't be back for Christmas we had a few presents for people to open while we were there. Here is Cami helping Grandma with her present.
Just Dance game on the Wii the last day we were there. It was pretty entertaining!

We had a fantastic time and we were so sad to leave. We sure are going to miss everyone at Christmas time.