Turkeys:

Babies:

Well the Thanksgiving celebration at Plume Gables is now over! We popped everyone on their respective planes yesterday and waved them all farewell (or see you soon). There were moments, in the past six days, when I thought my home would literally burst at the seams, but as it turns out, they built houses very well in the year of 1908 in Pocatello, Idaho. Plume Gables held and is perhaps stronger for the experience of holding 18 people, 2 tiny twin babies, one crazy five year old, 43 pounds of turkey, a whopping batch of mashed potatoes and candied yams, stuffing, cranberry sauce and relish, buns (rolls), a gorgeous salad, blueberry cheesecake, pumpkin pie and pecan pie. I was incredibly remiss in hardly picking my camera up more than once over the course of the week but RW’s dad managed to snap this shot of RW and I holding the new, twin baby boys, Caden and Bryce, in the living room under Julia’s supervision!

He also managed to catch a snapshot of Penelope cleaning up a baby carrier (I’ll let you guess at what she was eating…ew).

And I snapped these shots of Julia at our local park, acting like a sass and sliding with exceptional style.

Julia is our only niece and our goddaughter. We love her to bits and were fortunate enough to have her sleep over at The Gables nearly every night the family was in town. She’s hilarious and we didn’t have to send her to bed without her dinner once!

I will say this, after hanging on to those baby boys on and off over a period of six days, I have realized that I am really NOT ready to have a kid of my own. I like to have them lent to me with a due date, like an enjoyable library book. When I go to turn it in, after reading it cover to cover, I miss the story quite a lot but am glad to have room on my bedside table once more. Caden and Bryce are beautiful boys, they smell like babies, they feel like babies, they make baby sounds, they like to be cuddled, they like to squeeze your pointer fingers with their tiny hands, they like to be tickled, they sometimes cry and they make mighty poops (just ask RW). We’ll miss having them around and were SO glad to finally meet them!