After our quick trip to Oliver the weekend before it was time for a quick trip to Prince George. At least the Prince George trip was on a long weekend. We left right after school on the Friday again but due to the longer trip we spent the night in 100 Mile house. This left us with just a short trip on Saturday morning allowing us to arrive in time to visit with family before Thanksgiving dinner at my parent's house. It was prime leaf raking time and Grandpa hired Carter to take care of the first raking of the year. He subbed some of the work out to me but still did quite a bit including cleaning up all the piles.
Oliver had plenty of fun as well. This was his first experience with leaves and I was able to get a few hundred leaf pictures with Oliver and the kids. A good thing too since it ended up being too wet for leaf pictures in Surrey this year. We can't do the annual calendar if we don't have some good pictures of the kids jumping in leaves. The kids also had a good time playing with their other real cousin. (There are lot's of second cousins that apparently don't count.) Jackson even helped Carter line up the balls for a game of pool.
The main reason we came up for Thanksgiving was to celebrate Great Grandma's 95th birthday. She insisted she didn't want a party but of course we didn't listen to here. She came for Thanksgiving dinner at the Schwab's on Saturday and then we had an afternoon tea event at her retirement home on the Sunday afternoon. GG made sure to visit with everyone and she was easy to keep track of with her giant birthday balloon attached to her wheel chair. It was good visiting with first cousins, second cousins, distant cousins and aunts and uncles. For some reason we didn't get a lot of family pictures but we did get some good ones of GG. She looks great for 95.
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