Thanksgiving

Here we go, pictures and all!

It was so fun to be able to spend Thanksgiving with Husband's family. He is the youngest of 3 boys, all of whom are now married (the oldest got married just a month after we did). Though there was the usual family drama that is a part of nearly all extended family things, I think that overall the trip was a resounding success.

For more pictures and details, you can go to my sister-in-law Mommydew's blog. Her Thanksgiving post can be found here. There are some pretty fun pictures of Husband with our 4-year-old nephew! (Mommydew and I agree that they are basically twins born 19 years apart...she calls me all the time with stories about her son that end with "I'm raising [your husband]!" Plus, they even look alike.)

I don't really feel like writing out a bunch of details about what we did every second of every day that we were there. I'll let the pictures tell the stories. Unfortunately, I always either forgot to take my camera or forget that I have it with me whenever we were with Husband's other brother's family. I've got some cute ones of the others, though, as well as the group family portraits that we took on Saturday.

Maybe someday I'll feel like writing more details, but don't count on it. Just know that it was a wonderful vacation!

One night Niece wouldn't go to bed, so she came with me and Husband into Nephew's room (where we were staying) to read books. She read Fancy Nancy, and she handed me another book to read. Then we switched. Then we switched back. Then we switched again. You get where this is going...


Reading more Fancy Nancy. (If you've never heard of Fancy Nancy before--I hadn't before Mommydew mentioned them once--look it up, it's pretty cute.)


The book I was "reading." Dragons. Awesome.

Husband and Niece :)


Mommydew and Husband and I were able to do a session at the Dallas Temple on Saturday evening. (Kevin stayed home with the kids.) These aren't the best pictures because it was so dark, but at least they show that we were there!

This is how I took the last picture. They laughed at me. What, it was efficient!


Me and Husband and the Temple.

Being silly. (Husband's idea.)


Me and my sister[-in-law, but really just sister] and the temple.


Isn't she pretty?

[I have a picture of Husband and Mommydew, but it's turned the wrong way and I don't really feel like editing it right now. I'll post it later.]

The temple and its nativity, which I thought was beautiful. I have a closer-up of just that, but for the sake of shortening this post just a little bit, I'll refrain.


Now this is one sweet little girl! Also feisty.


I was trying to get a picture of the kids with their Granny and Papa, but as you can see, Nephew didn't cooperate. This one makes me laugh.


The kids wanted to take pictures. Niece took this one of me.


Nephew had to agree to the condition of letting me take this picture of him before I'd let him play with my camera...you know, a picture of him actually smiling instead of hiding. Cracked me up.


And here's the one he took of me. He caught me with a weird smile :)


The family portrait.


Father and sons.


And one of just us.