We are back home after 5 days of Thanksgiving fun in Minnesota and Iowa! We left Wednesday morning and went to the Twin Cities to spend Thanksgiving with Chris's family. We had a delicious meal and spent the day with Grandma Bev and Grandpa Bill and the rest of the family in Bloomington. Chris's cousin Shana brought her 140+ pound Great Dane "puppy" Storm. Max was very timid at first, but quickly warmed up to him and now it's pretty much all he talks about. He calls him a big horse and a giraffe from time to time too. Mya never really warmed up, but at least she was petting him at the end of the day while being held.
For the first time in a number of years, we did not get up early to get a Black Friday deal. There were a few things on our list, but none of the deals in the ads warranted a 4:00 wake up. Mya happened to be up during that hour of the night, so I did consider it, but wisely decided against. We did go to the mall at a reasonable hour and got some good deals, but it wasn't too crazy.
Friday night we got to spend the night with some great friends from Luther. We had night away from the kids and had wonderful food and many many laughs at Ben and Liz's house. We learned lots while we were there too...how to make homemade pasta, how to play guitar hero, and how to get red wine out of white carpet were just a few:)
Saturday we got up early and headed down to Decorah for my family's Thanksgiving. Amanda and Brian were kind enough to host because my mom had been a bit under the weather earlier in the week. Amanda's family was there too, and now I'm pretty sure I owe Amanda's little sister Thyme some money for entertaining our kids the entire time! We also ran the 9th annual turkey trot at the high school track. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, you can click here. The winner writes a summary about how the race went and yours truly was not the winner. So...you'll have to wait! There were some firsts during the race, so I'll leave you with one picture and see if you can find one of them!
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We are so thankful that all of you are in our lives!! We feel very blessed.
3 comments:
Did someone puke?! I love that you run that each year. Looks like you had a fun trip!!!
Yep...definitely someone enjoyed that Thanksgiving dinner for the second time! :)
Sounds like you guys had a great week! I love this time of year! Maybe Mya woke up at 4am because she was anxious to get out and shop!! :) love, Katie
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