Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone gets to enjoy some quality time with friends and family.  I am thankful to have such a wonder support system in my family, friends, and coworkers.  We're spending the day in town with only one Thanksgiving this year rather than our world wind tour of the holidays like in the past.  We'll leave that for Christmas this year.

Give Thanks!

Well November came and went in the blink of an eye.  Just this weekend, I realized it was the first weekend in so long that we truly had no plans beyond our weekly get together with Wyatt's Pa. It's no wonder this year is speeding by so quickly.  After Halloween, I made sure to change out my holiday decor to prepare for Thanksgiving and was ready to soak up every last bit of fall.

I never get tired of the view out of my office window.

We went to dinner with friends followed by a bon fire to get together for Don's birthday one weekend back in November.

We also had a Friendsgiving in Indy at Jen and Billy's house the weekend before Thanksgiving.  Lafayette got about 3 inches of snow that weekend so the trip down was gorgeous with a blanket of white on the ground.

We had Thanksgiving with Wyatt's family the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving.  The snow was almost gone for the more part, with only a little bit lingering around.  This was the view out Steve and Nancy's front door that evening.  It was such a pretty night, I had to snap this picture to capture it.

We met up with a few friends for a drink at the Black Sparrow on Thanksgiving Eve.  It is still a bit weird to me not to be at home in Washington at the famous Washington vs. Barr Reeve annual basketball game, but I it was so fun to hang out with friends in Lafayette.  We spent Thanksgiving day with my family in Orange County before returning to Steve and Nancy's to hang out with them and Judy so more.  Somehow it was Wyatt that convinced me to get out shopping on Black Friday, but we only went to a couple of stores and for the most part avoided the madness since we didn't make our way out until around lunch time. I began decorating and baking for Christmas and finished our Christmas cards that Saturday. I made Spritz with my new cookie press (will post more about those later) and made some sea glass inspired hard candy to take to Folly Beach with us.  On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, we had a Friendsgiving with our Lafayettte friends and Don and Tracy's house.  Wyatt fried a turkey at his parents' house that day before we headed over for the most amazing meal.  Everyone did a great job.  The only picture I managed to get that night is of Connor (and Gavin photobombing it perfectly in the background!).

And somehow it's now December and January will be here before I know it!

Thanksgiving Recap

Thanksgiving is a time to spend giving thanks and appreciating what you have.  We were lucky enough to get to have two different Friendsgivings (on the same weekend no less) this year.  We got together at Devin and Jake's house down in Indy with all the girls from college one night and then the next day had dinner at Dan and Kalysa's here in town. It was so much fun!  I am sure I ate wayyyyy too much (delicious) food, but it was well worth it to spend some quality time with my favorite people!

Thanksgiving for us was a whirlwind trip.  I drove down to my parents' house after work on the day before Turkey Day so I could spend a little extra time with them since Wyatt had to work until 11 that night.  He drove down and picked up Allison on Thanksgiving morning and they met up at my aunt's house for the Easterday Thanksgiving with my mom's family.  We had lunch there and hung out for a while before hitting the road and heading back to Lafayette for Thanksgiving dinner with Wyatt's family.  It was a long two days but well worth it.  I enjoy every chance I get to spend time with family.  

Wyatt, Allison, and I with Papaw at Thanksgiving

Very Thankful.

I'm a little behind on getting a post up about Thanksgiving, but the last week just got away from me.  Thanksgiving has come and gone.  It was a wonderful few days.  I got to show Wyatt the traditional Wednesday before Thanksgiving Washington v. Barr Reeve basketball game in the Hatchet House.  In between the JV and Varsity they retired the #40 jersey in honor of Luke, Tyler, and Cody Zeller.  Cody was able to make an appearance and cheer on his alma mater too.

On Thanksgiving we went to my aunt's house for lunch with my mom's side of the family.  We had a good little visit with my Papaw that included a few songs on the guitar for us too.

That evening I went up to Lafayette with Wyatt and we stopped by and had dinner at his parents' house and spent some time visiting with them.  I spent the rest of the weekend up there and we had a good time hanging out with some friends.  We even got to go to breakfast with his grandpa and mom one morning.  It was a wonderful weekend that just seemed to fly right by....they say time flies when you're having fun.

Pretty sunset on my way back to Washington to end a perfect weekend

I definitely have a lot to be thankful for...and I'm glad I got to spend a few days with loved ones taking it all in and remembering all that I am thankful for this year.