Thanksgiving 2015

(Baby's First Thanksgiving!)

Well, we traveled to Nebraska to celebrate Sophia's first Thanksgiving with my brother and sister-in-law and despite the fact that we should have left yesterday, we are still here thanks to a crazy winter storm that is essentially directly along our route home!  Nevertheless, the weekend has been jam-packed with activities and I'd say that Sophia's first Thanksgiving was a success!

(someone was tired after being passed around all day..also notice the wardrobe change!)

Thanksgiving with my family is something I look forward to every year and I am beyond happy that we now have a little one to join in on the fun!  Despite the fact that we traveled 16 hours stuffed like sardines in my parents' suburban, we were lucky enough to spend the holiday together as a family (something that is hard to do when you have military service members as relatives!).  Like is my family's tradition, my mom and dad did all the cooking! (I try to help out, but my brother's kitchen is not conducive to hold too many cooks in the kitchen).

(mom & dad cooking away)

This year my aunt and her family drove down to have Thanksgiving dinner with us and meet our new addition.  After engorging ourselves with turkey, ham, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, stuffing, gravy, and just about anything else you can think of (oh, and pie!), we sat down to watch the Cowboys lose and then to play our annual Christmas Bingo & Christmas Trivia to kick off the Christmas season.

(the family just before the shouting started!)

Next up was a game of touch football with the cousins.  It did not last very long because it was freezing and night fell quickly!  Then it was nap time and some online Black Friday shopping! (I'll post my strategy for Black Friday shopping in another post!)  Usually we try and all go shopping together, just to have fun, but this year the roads were way too icy and all our plans were thwarted! (Darn you Mother Nature!)  So we came home, watched Netflix, played video games, shopped online, and stayed up too late!

All in all, Thanksgiving was a bundle of stress, excitement, arguing, food, shopping, and good old-fashioned holiday family fun! (So a typical gathering of family!)

(it was hard to get a good picture, but I like this one ok!)