thanksgiving

i hope everyone had an amazing thanksgiving.

now that we'e a good way into december, 

thanksgiving seems like a distant memory,

but i wanted to share pictures so just so i have it down

for the girls to look back on one day.

we drove to illinois to visit ronnie's family.

the drive there was not great.

lots of pee breaks.

i maybe should have put reid in a diaper, just

so we weren't messing with it.

the 6 and a half hour drive, took over 8 hours.

oh, and there was not one minute of sleep during that ride.

8 hours and no sleep?

my kids are machines.

the girls did great once we were there.

brette loved it because we were all down in the basement

together so she got to sleep with us every night.

donna had a big dinner for us on thanksgiving 

and i whipped up the desserts.

(pecan pie and pumpkin pie cake)

it was nice to spend some down time together.

we also met up with ronnie's cousins a couple times.

one night to go out for pizza and another

where we left the kids with donna and went out to 

a "turkey hangover" party where you could ride the bull

and listen to a live band.

it was fun and i stayed out later than i thought we would,

which made getting up bright and early the next day to drive

home a lot less fun.

we did better on the way back though.

the girls took a two hour nap (so did ronnie)

and we were home in a little over 7 hours.

a thanksgiving success!

the next weekend we had "friendsgiving" down in

warrensburg with the crew we go campering with all summer.

it was nice to see everyone since we normally go months in between visits.

we took the girls and then they spent the night at mimi and papas since

we were going to be out later than 7:30.

so basically we got to chow down on turkey and 

all the fixins two weekends in a row while the kids played.

can't beat that.

now.... CHRISTMAS!