Thanksgiving Break

School is out for break!  Woot woot.  I love having a slower pace for our group.  They can sleep in, hang out with friends and there is definitely less follow up (aka nagging) on me and Brian's end of things.  

Tanner and Aubrey had friends over on Monday afternoon and Park had friends over on Monday evening to hot tub at Gram and Gramp's.  I love watching them interact with their friends.

Often Tanner and Aubrey have friends over at the same time but their paths do no meet.  They make a wide berth around each other.  Aubrey and Breena just started playing basketball for Nimitz though and they wanted to shoot some baskets. When I mentioned that Tanner and friends might be interested in playing together some giggling followed.  The girls were down for that.

The funniest part was Tanner's adamance that they were NOT interested in playing with the girls.  Why would they want to play b-ball with little middle school girls?  So dumb.  I am pretty sure he wasn't interested either.  However,  his friends obviously were interested and it took a little bit of casual encouraging on their end to make it happen.  I was cracking up inside watching the dynamics play out.

They played together for a long time and had a lot of fun.  After about an hour the girls decided to move on to other activities.  The boys had stopped passing/including them as much and were in show off mode instead.  I hear ya girls...

I didn't take any pictures of Parker and friends but Brian and I were invited to play Uno Flip at the kitchen table with them.  I was pleased.  I think this is the first time he and friends have ever played a card game at our house.  I was glad to be included.

I did take pictures of Parker putting his beanie into good use.  Now if we can just get that kid to wear a shirt.

Aubrey and Parker were able to get along for more than five minutes (huge miracle) and played a mini Jenga game together.  

We are off to see Grandma and Grandpa Gwilliam tomorrow.  We get to see our girl tomorrow night!

And speaking of our girl, her weekend included a fun friends-giving.  She mentioned the guys especially appreciated the delicious food.  She is not sure how they are surviving.  Several of them mostly survive on spam and rice. GROSS.  One of them mentioned he couldn't remember the last time he had eaten a fruit.  I am glad Brinley and roommates are choosing to eat a little better than that.