Thanksgiving Week

We started this week with Thanksgiving at Mommom and Pop's house since they were not making the trip with us to South Carolina. Mommom went all out and made the traditional Thanksgiving feast for us all to enjoy. It was delicious but we were sad that we would not be spending the holiday with them and my sister.



This was the first year in over 20 that we have spent outside of our own city. So Tuesday night we packed up the cars and when Dad closed the bar we were off. It was an ok drive Olivia slept almost the whole way only waking when we made 2 stops. Each time we got back in the car she wanted to watch Barney and she did watch each 1 hour movie then it was back to sleep. We hit rain in SC and it rained the whole way to Myrtle Beach. I was happy with it knowing that it was bringing cold weather. Yea, a chilly holiday!!!

We got settled in and headed to my aunt and uncle's to see everyone. We ran some errands, tied up dinner with the caterer for Thursday, and snuck in a little shopping. All in all a very productive and tiring day. After the long ride it was an early night for us.

Thursday we headed back to Aunt Bev's and received an early morning surprise, Aunt Kathy came down!!! Yea, this was the first time that she has met Olivia in person and the 2 got along great. We are very grateful that she came since she had to leave my uncle and cousins home (we missed them all very much). We talked, watched the Macy's Parade, and nibbled on appetizers. Of course Olivia wanted to spend lots of time out back and she did so by taking someone different each time. We ate an early amazing dinner and spent the rest of the time perusing the adds for Black Friday.

Dad and Ben headed home Friday morning so they could open the bar back up. While we headed to breakfast and snuck in some more shopping before we headed back to make our special sugar cake cookies.

It was such a wonderful visit and I am so grateful to our family that we missed at home. We can't wait to go back to visit once little Ben arrives.

We concluded our weekend with a visit to the park on Park Ave. to visit with Catherine (one of my oldest friends who just had her first son 3 months ago). It was a beautiful morning to chat by the fountain and Olivia loved running through the grass and throwing leaves in the fountain. Then we had dinner with Dave, Darla, Vicky, and DJ to make up for Thanksgiving. We had a great time catching up and watching Denver beat the Chargers (sorry Vicky). This past week has been amazing and we are now looking forward to enjoying all of the holiday festivities that are to come.