Many, many, many pictures from our Thanksgiving adventures!

For Thanksgiving, the Rabus family met in Mountain Home, Arkansas at the Rocking Chair Resort on Norfork Lake. We had such a fun time sharing a cabin, and the cool weather didn't keep us from enjoying the outdoors!! I've included several pictures (the bad part about digital cameras is that there are usually too many good pictures, if that's possible!)


We did lots of eating....

We celebrated Sophie's birthday again (which meant lots of more eating!)...

One of Sophie's new toys is a John Deere tractor (just like Grampka's!) Sophie and Alex took turns pushing each other around!





We did some fishing from a pontoon and the dock by our cabin...

As you may have noticed, I was the only one of the fisherpeople (me, Mike, Laura and Mom) who didn't catch a fish. I did catch a rock on the bottom of the lake, though. I'll let you decide which takes more skill!

Sophie's least favorite part of the vacation (she cried the whole time!)

We also did some hiking...

The Snow family

And we also got to hang out in the cabin...


"Hey Alex, what movie are you watching?"

Sophie and Aunt Kim

Sophie and Grampka

Sophie and Uncle Craig

The girls playing card games (The boys were playing some Cannon game where they were shooting things at each other!)

Sophie and Grammy

Sophie and Aunt Laura

Happy 1st Birthday, Sophie!!

Sophie turned 1 year old on Saturday!! We started the fun day by going to the zoo. Sophie's favorites were the red panda and the sea lions. She also liked the donkeys in the children's zoo. She also had fun swinging and riding the carousel.

Grandma tried to teach Sophie how to lick the ice cream (she never really caught on, but it was cute to watch!)

When we got home, Sophie opened her presents!! She loved the bows most of all!

A cute doggie sweater from Grandma and Grandpa

Learning to drive already!!

Sophie's cousin, Micah, thought she needed some sports toys for her birthday. Sophie loves to dunk the basketball!!

It took her a little while to dig into the cake, but once she did, there was chocolate everywhere! (Even on her feet!)

A birthday bedtime story from one of her new books.

We are meeting Mike's family at a cabin in Arkansas for Thanksgiving, so Sophie is going to have another birthday party then! She can't wait for some more cake!!!