Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving in St. Louis this year, since we made a switch to be with my family (& Rob, Kristen & Owen) in Dallas last year. We had turkey dinner at Mike’s Aunt Sharon’s house with the full gang, Carson’s was the THIRD youngest baby boy in the family on his 1st Thanksgiving! His cousin Drew is three months old, and Mike’s cousin Marcie had a baby boy Louie just a month ago. The family is growing fast, as the last time we were here for Thanksgiving Collin was the only child, and Karen was pregnant with Sophie. Now between Mike & his two sisters, there are six kids under 4 ½ with another on the way this spring...it’s nice that all the cousins are close in age.

The day after Thanksgiving we attended the Belleville Santa Claus parade, with bands, and candy thrown, and you know who. It was a little chilly, but the kids had a blast. Friday night we had Grandma watch the boys and went out with just the adults siblings – a welcome rteat. Saturday we went to St. Louis after Carson’s nap and picked up MY Grandma and took her over to my Uncle Charles' house for a nice lunch, then my cousin Caitlin’s to visit. My grandma did great getting around and I was so happy to be able to have her out and about and spend time together, especially since she fell and broke her hip just a few days later. We are all praying for her continued improvement in physical therapy so she can be released from the hospital and hopefully go back to her Independent Living home.

We also were in town to celebrate our nephew Drew’s baptism on Sunday, and we are the proud Godparents! It made for a late arrival into Atlanta (2 AM) to stay for the party at Laura & Tim’s, but definitely worth it, and we’re sure the traffic on 75 was a lot lighter in the middle of the night than it would have been earlier on a busy holiday travel day.