Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! We had a great thanksgiving, both of them! We started off on November 10th with the Martinson crew gathering in Woodinville for our Thanksgiving warm-up. It was a great time and lots of delicious food. That day marked Alistair's first thanksgiving meal. He didn't a lot as we ate at a non-dinner time for him. He snacked a little, but I think he was a little underwhelmed! Thanksgiving day we stopped by Jeff & Michelle's to say hi. They were hosting their first Thanksgiving for her family. Then we continued on down to Olympia to have dinner with Seth's parents, Ethan & Jen and her parents and another couple who are friends of David & Judy. Dinner was delicious and Alistair had maybe a little more of this meal, but again it wasn't at a normal meal time for him and he had been grazing on raw veggies and little pieces of bread!

Here are Alistair and Carrie sharing the rocking chair. Alistair could really get that chair moving and Carrie seemed to enjoy the ride! They also shared some grapes.
Alistair's first Thanksgiving meal.

And of course, it wouldn't be the weekend after Thanksgiving without putting up the lights. We were the second ones with our lights up on our block. Many people have caught up since then! Alistair was out "helping" us with the snowman.

Hennessey Happenings

We have been keeping ourselves fairly busy recently. We find a good combination of fun and work on the weekends and have managed to get some stuff done around the house as well as enjoy all Fall has to offer. Being that it is fall, raking the leaves in our yard was a HUGE task.

Alistair helped between doing laps with his mail cart. Seth was filling a spider leaf bag to display on our roof and Alistair would stop to put a few handfuls in.
Seth also celebrated his 32nd birthday. No mustangs this year, but I think a trip to Hawaii was a close second! We had a nice dinner at home followed by some delicious brownies and book reading.

The weekend before Halloween found us out at Grayland Beach yurting with my parents. They brought their trailer. There are hook-ups in the yurt sites, so we were able to all be together. We had a blast! The weather was gorgeous, almost slightly warm during the day but then it got bitter cold at night. There was no precipitation at all! The best part of the weekend was that they opened razor clam digging. So my mom, Seth and I got 3-day clam digging licenses and got our limits (15 clams each) in about 20 minutes both Friday and Saturday. It was amazing to see how many people were out digging. My dad was the official wrangler of Alistair. He brought out his mail cart Saturday, but quickly was escorted into the stroller when it became apparent that we would have out clams dug before they got there!

Here I am digging those fabulous clams. It is back-breaking work as you can see.

The first full weekend after we got back from Hawaii we went to Craven Farms in Snohomish to get pumpkins. It is a really neat place. I am not sure we really got a deal on our pumpkins, but the outing and experience was fun. We had lunch in downtown Snohomish afterward.