Hip Hip Hooray, it's the Holidays!!

What a blessed Thanksgiving celebration we had!  We piled into the car and hit the road early am on Thursday headed north to see DH's grandparents and daddy.  Thankfully, the kids were angels in the car (and throughout the day).  We made the trip in record time thanks to DH's speedy but safe driving.  Mom-Betty had quite the feast for us - Turkey, Ham, Mac & Cheese, Cream Corn, Greenbeans, Cranberry Sauce, Pineapple Casserole, Stuffing, Fruit Salad Sweet Potato Cobbler and DH's favorite, Banana Pudding!  We ate our fill and then some.  The Sweet Potato Cobbler and Banana Pudding were big hits with WP and of course he near about ate his weight in fruit salad.  After all that eating and celebrating with Mom-Betty, Poppa and Uncle Lynn, we headed back to DH's daddy's house to nap and watch football.  A perfect Thanksgiving.

On Friday, we mustered up the courage to venture out to the Anderson mall.  We took the kids to see Santa...WP is not a huge fan of Santa this year but CE was an angel as always!  Going to see Santa on Black Friday is one of the best ideas we've had...there was no wait! We were in and out in less than 20 minutes and that included waiting on the pictures!! After our visit with Santa, we headed to the shoe store where DH used to get his shoes when he was a kid to find WP some new dress shoes.  WP is in a size 6-6.5 at 18 months sounds like he's growing just fine to me!!  Once our errands were finished, we headed back to Daddy Bill's house where I successfully managed to take a photo of the kids for our Christmas cards.  They were dressed so nicely from their trip to see Santa, I figured I would kill to birds with one stone!!

Friday night, DH's cousins came over for dinner.  It was nice to catch up with them and to show off Will and Caroline.  They brought Caroline a sugar bowl which be has been in DH's family for at least 96 years and in perfect condition.  What a wonderful gift!  When Will was born, they gave Will a toy shovel which had belonged to his great-great grandfather.  I just love family treasures!!

Ok, picture time...

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!