Always A Work In Progress: Thanksgiving 2010

It was a very different Thanksgiving for us. Just being home for the whole weekend was....amazing. Being able to be together as a family and just relax, it was priceless!

Thursday we got up pretty early, still sleeping in compared to a normal day. I started cooking and baking pretty quickly. I didn't have much to do but I wanted to get it done and ready. We had lunch at my sisters house at noon and it was of course, amazing. Thanksgiving dinner has to be the most amazing meal of the year. We need to do it more often then once! After dinner the boys all went to Bass Pro Shop and spent a few hours running off steam. Michael called his family down in Arkansas and for the first time in...well, forever, they were trapped. Turns out rain and ice hit them hard and Grandma couldn't even get to their house for Thanksgiving. When Michael talked to her she had made a hamburger on her Foreman for lunch. Poor Gigi. We spent the afternoon going through adds and nibbling on left overs and pies. It was a very relaxing afternoon with family. I enjoyed every second of it!

Friday, well, that is what I call a waste of a day. We did nothing. Literally nothing. AND IT WAS AWESOME!!! I am not lying on this. We stayed in sweats all day, cleaned up a bit, and just spent the day as a family. It was heavenly! A very much needed day of nothing. I would like this to be every Friday.

Saturday we actually had to look "alive". We ran a few errands and did our normal Saturday routine. For the afternoon Connor and Charlotte came over. Jake had a blast. Other then the baby powder fight, it was a good time. Even though Charlotte is almost 1, it was nice having a baby around. After Chris came and got the kiddos we cleaned up and Jake had a fantastic time in the bath! The rest of the evening consisted of dinner, playing with Jake and after he retired to bed, Michael and I watched a sappy Christmas movie on the Hallmark Channel. Don't repeat this, but Michael loves the Hallmark Channel at Christmas time. He loves the movies. It makes me laugh. Mainly they all have happy endings and make you feel all warm inside. So we canoodled up by the tree and watched a movie. It was perfection!

Today was a normal day. Trying to get back into our normal routine. It feels weird actually being Sunday. Mainly because the last 4 days have felt like Sunday. Michael and Jake both took long naps and are now running around like kids! Football has been watched, cookies have been baked, and now the final week is upon us. This is the last week of us being a family of 3. That is extremely scary and exciting to think about! We are just taking it one day at a time.

Here are some recent photos that have been snapped around here.

Found Jake with the stockings!