Last year you'll recall that our Thanksgiving was spent in the hospital with our sweet newborn Andrew. Brandon and I ate quickly in DeSoto and then we rushed off (leaving Parker to play with his cousins) to the hospital, where we spent Thanksgiving holding our youngest baby boy and giving many thanks to the nurses and doctors who were making him well.
Flash forward to this year and you'll see a much different Thanksgiving holiday for this family! Oh my did we have a wonderful Thanksgiving...together.
We ate and ate and ate and we gave thanks to our families for everything they are to us, and spent the days celebrating the love and thanks we have for them.
Instead of napping the day away, we ended up at the local school playground running and playing and laughing and spending time together.
And, for the first time...EVER...Brandon and I headed out on Thursday night to make some awesome purchases for Santa this year!! What a crazy, fun time we had together, battling the crowds and getting exactly what we headed out for! (We only went to one store...that's about all we could handle, but it was still fun! We've got a date planned in a couple weeks to get all of our shopping done!)
We put up Christmas decorations and listened to Christmas music. We taught Andrew about our family traditions and Parker told Andrew a story about every ornament that we hung up..."that one was dad's when he was a little boy...this one is mine that Jamie gave me from Florida...this one is your very first ornament..." It was wonderful.
We stayed in, ate leftovers, and ordered pizza. We made forts with the newly arranged furniture (to make room for the Christmas tree) and we read Christmas books and watched Christmas movies. We wrapped up the stairs with some ribbon from last Christmas and we made 'boobie traps' for dad to fall into (after watching Home Alone, what else do you do?!).
We enjoyed another Thanksgiving feast, family, and more cousins as we celebrated Thanksgiving at the farm. We even remembered to take our traditional family photo.
We played games, watched Andrew cruise (yes, walking) around the house....as he thought no one was watching. We laughed and enjoyed this time of Thanksgiving.
The only day missing from our Thanksgiving holiday was one with our Davies family. We missed them this year and we are hoping and thankful that Deb will have a full recovery from her injury and that she starts feeling better soon. We did get to see Aunt Dani for a few hours on Sunday- and we are so thankful that she is moving back to Kansas City this week!! (The only part I didn't love about this weekend is the news that my step-mom had fallen and had surgery on her wrist and was not doing very well with healing.)
Yes, this year was much different from last year. I loved our time together. I took it all in. I spent every second I could with these boys (and, that's hard to do with all of the grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, and cousins around to swoon over them).
This year we were together. This year we have much to be thankful for.
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