Thanksgiving pictures

For Thanksgiving this year we had my parents and brother come to visit from Utah. It was a lot of fun to have them here. Elise loved all the attention, especially Grandpa's seemingly never ending supply of M&M's and other small candies that he seemed to have in his pocket at all times. We had a very nice Thanksgiving, Mom helped me do all the cooking, and then Friday morning (after only going out for an hour or so for Black Friday), we piled into both our cars and drove up to Washington DC for the weekend. We were able to go to Mount Vernon, Ikea (for some Christmas shopping), see all the monuments, and go to a session at the temple. It was a great weekend. My parents had to go home too soon, but it was good to have them visit.

Elise loves purses...if you aren't careful, she'll adopt yours! In one of the gift shops she fell in love with this horse purse...boy was it hard to get it away from her!

Elise loved walking on the marble benches in front of the Washington Monument and did not like it when tourists got in her way!




What's the best part of eating dinner at Ikea? Chocolate cake! What a messy, happy girl!





Elise looking through the bars by Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon.

Elise was enthralled by the Christmas camel we saw on the grounds of Washington's home...but Daddy couldn't get too close!

Grandpa carried Elise for quite a while during our trek to all the monuments...Elise is sleeping quite contentedly on his shoulder.