more of Thanksgiving week 2022

Since we had our Thanksgiving meal on Tuesday, our actual Thanksgiving day was a quiet day at home. We had breakfast together and started decorating for Christmas. We were in our jammies until after lunch - so fun.

Our dear friends, Rick & Becky and Steeve, texted us early afternoon and invited us over for pumpkin cheesecake at 3pm. We were there!

Saturday afternoon we went to the Wrightsville Beach Flotilla - a family favorite!

Here comes Christmas!

Thanksgiving Week 2022

We just enjoyed a long weekend with Anna & Claire here.  They arrived late Friday night and stayed out at the beach house. We were up Saturday morning and ready to go see them ASAP. We had a beautiful day in Surf City with lots of playing of games, including their VR, multiple bike rides, and a walk on the beach. We also stopped at the tree lighting ceremony in Surf City and then had dinner out at Coastal Wings & Spirits.

Sunday Anna & Claire came to us. We decorated gingerbread houses (Thanks Aunt Claire!), played at the park, made peppernuts, and watched football. We only snagged a few pictures as our hands were busy.

Our gingerbread village

Mixing peppernuts, a Flaming family tradition

We had our Thanksgiving meal on Tuesday, as Anna & Claire had to head back home early Wednesday morning. We played football after lunch, played at the park, visited the arboretum & the Oceanic Pier.

Come back and visit soon, Anna & Claire!

Family Photo Shoot 2022

We just had a family photo shoot out at our beach house. Unfortunately, we aren't very good at scheduling regular family photo shoots. We had one in 2017 to celebrate Benny & Wren's adoption and also back in 2015. It was W-A-Y overdue! Our friend Heather, took all the pictures. Here are a few of our favorites.

 

Halloween 2022

Once again, we had a really fun Halloween evening at the Cook's annual soup dinner followed by trick or treating with friends. Becky always makes a really yummy curried carrot soup (very orange and festive) and a black bean soup (also very yummy and black). The kids look forward to this every year. Trick or treating with friends is especially fun.

Ella & Haven were twins

A new tradition that began this year, Jake & I were O'Reilly auto parts workers in honor of my Dad who passed away this past year. We have 6 of his old shirts so I am sure at some point the kids will join us.