The Järvs: Thanksgiving Holiday!

For Thanksgiving we went up Shingletown to spend time with Sean's mom. We've been going up there for Thanksgiving for years, and a 5 years ago or so, we started a tradition. The day after Thanksgiving we load up the truck with our left-over turkey and a saw... We go get our permit to cut down a Christmas tree, we find our tree, cut it down, put our turkey on a stump, eat left-over turkey sandwiches and hope we see a bear coming to get the turkey we left! It all started when one year we did that, but we dropped off the turkey first..we found our tree, and while driving back, we saw a huge bear, right in the middle of the road! Ever since that, we swear the bear was there because he ate our turkey!....
So here's a TON of pictures from our long weekend..we had the BEST time, the kids loved spending time with their Nana, being in the Forrest, quadding, and exploring around her property! Thanks for the wonderful, relaxing, fun time!

Kai Kai was all bundled up and ready to go!

Kaihla fell in love with Vickie's dog, Sky. I swear every 10 minutes she would ask " where's sky?" It was pretty damn cute. Sky was so great with Kaihla too. Kaihla is our little animal lover!

Shad, Vickie, Me and Kaihla ready to look for our tree!

Here's a family shot while we were looking for the "perfect" tree. I absolutely h-a-t-e this picture of me, but love if of Sean and the kids...so I put it up anyway..just ignore me!

While Sean went back to the truck to get the saw, Shad thought he would save us some time and cut the tree down himself. Too bad he was using a stick. Nice try buddy!

There's Sean cutting down the Christmas Tree! and look how much fun he's having! Thankfully this tree was a lot easier to cut then it had been in previous years!

Mr. Serious looking cute

Sean and Shad getting ready to go for a Quad ride..matching jackets and all..

Daddy had great little helpers while he was trying to set up the tree

Turns out the box the lights were in was much more fun.

Seriously, Kaihla has NO FEAR when it comes to these quads. She's borderline obsessed. Well, actually, she's fine until she hears one start up...she gets upset if she isn't the one riding.

We all went on a Quad ride, and along one of the trails was a Christmas tree farm. Not the kind -where people can come and pay for their tree..the kind where Sierra-Pacific owns it, they sell it to private party's, where they come and get them and sell them somewhere else. Anyway, there were a bazillion trees, and Mt. Lassen is in the background (I don't know if you can see it in this picture) But it was so beautiful!!