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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Tobias, James, and I made it safely out to St. Francis, KS (as good as it gets) on Sunday after a long day. We woke up about 3am and were out of Jacksonville on the 6am flight to Denver. James did great on the flight. We only had about 10 minutes of a crying spell and that was it. Tobias and I worried the entire flight, of course!

We made it to Denver before 8am and were able to have breakfast and visit with Great-Grandma Leah. It was a great visit. I'll have to post pictures in a later post, I don't have that camera with me.
James slept the entire 3 hour drive to St. Francis, and we made it out to Tobias' farm about 6pm that night. We were so tired and thankful that we made it to the farm! What a day!

Jim, Tobias' dad and the person Sweet Baby James is named for, was diagnosed with prostate cancer about 2 weeks before James was born. Jim had his surgery on 11/15 and made it home on Monday evening. What a joy to see James with Grandpa Jim and Grandma Edie. Grandpa Jim is recovering and doing very well. The two James' have really bonded!



Today was an exciting first for our little Florida baby. The temperature got into the low 20s last night and we got about 1 inch of snow! Luckily, we're equipped for the cold weather!


We hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.

And welcome home from deployment Vince! We can't wait for your to meet James!

Comments

Unknown said…
LOVE the snowsuit!
November 26, 2007 at 8:09 AM
Anonymous said…
I love tobias feet in the snowsuit picture ;)
November 27, 2007 at 8:46 AM
Marthaa said…
Hey I finally got a gmail account so I can post comments now! Super cute photos :) I love his perplexed look in the shots where Tob is standing over him with a camera :) More pictures please!
November 27, 2007 at 2:50 PM
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