Thanksgiving Break!

What a fabulous time we had for Thanksgiving this year! We decided to skip out of town a day early to get on up to Alabama. It was nice to have extra time, even if it was just a day. So we drove up on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we went out to Lindsey and Chris' new house, which they are now living in. We got to see it all decorated for Christmas - gorgeous!!!

Wednesday night, we headed down to Montgomery to spend the night with Ma-don, my grandmother. Thursday morning, we switched holidays for a couple hours and celebrated Christmas while everyone was together. (We will be at our house on Christmas day and then in Tampa with Jeff's folks, so we had an early Alabama Christmas). All the girls got spoiled with lots of gifts. Elianna fell in love with bows! Mama, does this picture remind you of Lindsey when she was little? I can just see her so much in Maryella here.
After we cleaned up the Christmas wrapping paper, it was time to get back to Thanksgiving. The girls made a quick wardrobe change and we were all set. Lindsey's orange glazed turkey was SOOOOOO yummy! Kaylin helped Max butter the rolls.After lunch, several members of the household decided it was time for the tradition Thanksgiving afternoon nap.
We drove back up to Alabaster that evening and headed to bed pretty quickly because the next day promised to be a fun one with the ladies going black Friday shopping. Me, Mama and Lindsey got up at 3:30 am and headed to Target, Walmart, Belk and other places and found a few good deals. Nothing jaw dropping, but we had lots of fun and that's what really counts. Sorry, no pictures of our early morning craziness, we forgot the cameras. Hey, it was 3:30 am! Can you blame us? We were back home in time for the famous Iron Bowl. My family are all Alabama fans, but I married an Auburn boy, so much to my dad's dismay, I switched loyalties. We had a fun time watching the game. It was a good game and pretty close, but Alabama won in the end. That night, we took my brother, Max, out for his birthday. He's 30 this year! He picked a Japanese place to eat and the girls, even Elianna, were totally mezmerized by watching the guy cook in front of us. The girls looked beautiful dressed in some of their new clothes they got for Christmas. When they made the big fire, Maryella slowly crawled over to my mom's lap, it was funny.

Saturday, my dad and Jeff took the three big girls on a train ride while me, my mom and Elianna slept off a bit of a stomach bug. They had a great time and even got to see Santa! Although, I'm not so sure Maryella was very thrilled with that treat. She cowered by the window while the other two gave the big guy a hug.

Sunday, and time to go home came too fast. It always makes me sad to leave family. I miss them so much when I'm not there! But we made tons of memories to talk and laugh about to get us through until the next visit!