Thanksgiving 2009

Thanksgiving.....that was in November 2009, and we are now in January 2010. Let's see if I can remember what exactly we did for Thanksgiving.

Like usual we ran around like crazy people. Our morning started off with a clothing change for little man. I had gotten him all ready to go. He was wearing a nice outfit and looked quite handsome. Derek graciously offered to take Joshua outside to play while I finished getting myself ready and packing our things for our night away. Just a minute after they went out the door there was a knock at the door. I figured they were just playing with me so I kind of ignored them. Just a few minutes later I heard Derek requesting I come help him get a VERY dirty Joshua in the house. You see, Derek had a cyst removed from his wrist just a week before Thanksgiving, and he wasn't able to lift Joshua like he needed to to get him in the house because J-man was fighting him every bit of the way. Apparently he was having the time of his life playing in the mud and wasn't at all interested in coming inside. Anywho, let's talk Thanksgiving.

We headed to Albemarle to have lunch with Derek's mom's side of the family. There were so many of us all squeezed into his grandparents house, but we had such a good time! It was nice to have all of the children together. Joshua got to play with all 4 of his cousins! We aren't able to get all of them together very often, so those times that we do are precious.

For dinner we headed to Concord to have Thanksgiving with my mom's side of the family. My mom hosted dinner since she is finally in her house! It was great to see it coming together, and we had a great time with my family!

The day after Thanksgiving we spent some time with at Mema's (Derek's dad's mom) new house in Gastonia.

And we went back to my mom's house for dinner with my cousins on my dad's side of the family. We haven't gotten to see them since Uncle Linn went to heaven in July. It was a bittersweet time of missing my dad and uncle but also enjoying our time with the ones we have left. We left Concord that night and drove back home. We got home late and were exhausted, but we were able to pack a lot into two days.

We had a great 2009 and had much to be thankful for!