Grandpa, Thanksgiving, and a whole lot more

     My apologies, dear friends, for the tardiness of this blog.  I didn't know how many of you followed it until I got multiple calls, e-mails, and texts saying, "hey! Where's the blog?" and "are you okay?"  Yes, we're doing amazingly well here in the Schuurman household.  But my same excuse as always is how BUSY we are.  Between 2 boys, 2 bread routes, 2 salons, and a whole slew of church ministries that we're a part of, there's hardly any down time.  We have to MAKE time to rest.  In fact, my man planned out a date and took me out last night, in fact.  It was incredible.  As much as I LOVE our children, I need time away from them and alone with their father, too.  Anyhow, back to the blog...
     To keep this from being too long, I'll tell the story of our past few weeks in the form of pictures.  It can be categorized into a few groups: 1) Our time with the ever amazing Grandpa  2) Thanksgiving  3) Crazy Asheville weather  4) Weaverville Christmas parade.  I hope to keep up better in the next few weeks, but if not, you'll know the excuse I'm going to use. :)

Good-bye purple and blue.  Hello tan and black.

Grandpa was a HUGE help whether it was painting or taking care of the boys.

Who's who?

Making a turkey out of his foot-print.

Putting his turkey numbers in numerical order.

Smiley Titus popped two teeth out at the same time.

Marcus was all over Grandpa when he and Daddy got home from work.

Titus enjoyed time with Grandpa as well. 

Grandpa and his two Southern grandsons.

On November 27th, it SNOWED!  It wasn't much, but Marcus was still excited.

Who doesn't love a naked baby?

Marcus and his "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree.

Our last night with Grandpa, we all went out to eat, despite the blustery weather.

Putting decorations on our tree.

Titus fell over but was happy to be down.

Sweet little fella

Notice the windows are open.  It was 65 and 70 degrees two days in a row!

Seriously?  Blowing bubbles in your underwear in December?  Yep, sure did.

We were outside a LOT these two days.

Even Titus got out there and played, too.

The Weaverville Christmas Parade is always so fun.  Marcus got a TON of candy.

It was good and cold today, but we were fine since we bundled up.

You gotta love the South.  Racing lawn mowers.

Couldn't stop laughing.  This guy had maybe half his teeth.

Titus slept through it all.  Even when the fire trucks sounded their horns right beside us.

Marcus loved the horses, too.

He woke up when the parade was over, ready to eat.  Look ma!  Both hands!