Thanksgiving Grace

This year we ventured to Long Grove to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Szurgots. It was nice because Austen (and Peyton) got to hang out with their cousins from California - Brooke and Matthew.

Austen and Matthew (age 5) had a great time using Aunt Maria and Uncle Bob's house as their own personal racetrack. More than once, we were yelling at them to slow down and go run around in the basement!

Peyton was a happy girl, crawling all over the place and flashing her usual big smiles. Not walking yet but she sure is a fast crawler. You really had to watch her as she headed up two flights of stairs or tried to take off down to the basement.

Before dinner, we all joined hands to say grace and Grandma was about to start grace when Austen started talking. Tom, not knowing what he was saying, began to shush him so we could start but I noticed that he was saying the grace he says at school. So Austen led us in grace for Thanksgiving. I'm sure that no one understood aside from a few words he was saying, but he was so proud to lead his big family in being thankful this holiday season.

I wish I could find all the words online but here are the few words that I know from his singing/saying grace.

a fork and a spoon, a family, a community
we are brothers and sisters,
we are what we are
we thank you for what we receive
bon appetit
now you may eat