Thanksgiving Break!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday this year. Ragnar's parents flew in from Germany to come and spend the holiday with us. 

Here is their cute plane selfie on their way to Texas!

They got to walk the kids to school which my kids love!

We played the Legos they bought the kids and that took a good portion of the day!

Channing loves putting puzzles together.

Oma was helping Deacon make baskets. He loves to play basketball!
On Tuesday we got a chance to go to the Houston Temple. My parents were kind enough to watch the kids as we went.

Ragnar and his mother.

 Ragnar and his cute parents

We got to go to a Houston Rockets Game on Wednesday before Thanksgiving and had a great time in the suites, even though the Rockets didn't play well.

Our handsome boys!

Rockets Selfie!

Thanksgiving day came and although I was so nervous about cooking my first Thanksgiving dinner, it turned out well and we had a great day!

 Ragnar was helping with the turkey! Thank goodness!

 Making some yummy potatoes!

Hellmut was ready to eat!

 The middle kids table ;)

And of course we had a wii dancing party. Daphne is here after all!

That evening Ursula wanted to see what all the Black Friday hype in America was all about, so Daphne and I went out to two stores to show her what it was all about! I think she enjoyed herself!
Friday we got to have lots of help putting up Christmas decorations!

Ragnar got the tree up and Daphne and I decorated!

 Here it is in all it's 12ft glory! I love it!

They wanted to add some lights outside...so this was the arrangement the kids wanted.

Ursula also helped the kids make these ribbon place mats. They had a great time learning!

Their grandparents took them to the park and they had a blast!

The kids are lucky to have such fun grandparents!

On Saturday night we went to dinner and then to see The Phantom of the Opera. It was wonderful!

Such a fun night!

Deacon loved Hellmut and it was so cute to watch them together. Hellmut would say "guten tag" and Deacon would always walk up to him and shake his hand! We are so glad they came and we miss them so much already!