Thanksgiving weekend

It was not the normal Thanksgiving weekend this year. Due to fires in the area, my parents were evacuated from their home on Friday evening. They (along with 3 dogs), and my sister came and stayed at our place.
Dustin and I were obviously not expecting company for night and rushed to clean up and make up 3 extra places to sleep (I had been uptown when Dustin texted me that my parents were on their way!), along with clean up the garage for the extra dogs.
Thankfully, their house was fine and they were allowed to go home again the next day ... and if they'd had power, we would have kept Thanksgiving there as planned.
The power came on mid afternoon, but by then, the turkey was cooking in my oven (which Dustin prepared - and it was wonderfully moist and yummy!), and the rest of my family had come to join us at our place.

We celebrated all the October birthdays; Zach's, my brother's, my Oma's, and my sister-in-law's, and I think despite the oddness of why it was at our place this year, we all seemed to enjoy the afternoon. After all, Thanksgiving is about being with the people you love.

The goalie pads and stick my parents got for Zach for his birthday

Licking off the beaters after whipping the cream... lol!

My hunny, doing a fabulous job carving the turkey

October Birthdays!

On Sunday, we went to Dustin's parents.
With a hayride in the afternoon, and the first ever Jets game (of the new team), it was a nice relaxing day.
Of course, we celebrated Zach's birthday with this side of the family as well. And he had a blast, yet again!

Brad (with Grampa supervising) drove the old Cockshot for the hayride.
He did a great job!

3 little munchkins! They are so cute!

Jets teeshirts for his birthday ... um, yes please!!

Blowing out the candles - with his nose. Gross.

Zach's birthday party

Since Zach's actual birthday was on Thanksgiving Day (Monday), we had his party a week early so his friends from school could actually make it.
He had a sports theme to it, which was super simple for me. Games were easy; football, soccer, etc.
The boys started with tackle football, but after the first injury, I questioned if that's how they played at school, and was told very seriously that they would all get 'pink slips' (bad ones!) if they did!
So that's what I told them I'd do too! lol! Even 2-hand-touch was pretty rough, with some accidental pushing and such. But all had a great time!