Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great this year. First of all, the best part was being able to have Jeff’s sister Kimberly and her husband Mike here with us from Virginia. They just moved back east this year to attend law school. They got here Wednesday night and we had a blast having them here. The only bummer about the whole holiday weekend was that Jeff was on-call and ended up spending a lot of time at the hospital.

Thursday was spent baking & cooking and getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner. I enjoy being in the kitchen, but it was a lot more fun having Kimberly there with me. We were able to work together making all sorts of yummy things to eat for dinner, and all the while talking, laughing and keeping the dishwasher going! Kimberly did some awesome rolls, jello and many other things. I think I topped any of my previous records by making 5 pies (apple, cherry, pumpkin, and 2 cheesecakes). Jacob and Caleb had a great time throughout the day. Jeff got a special movie for them to watch that morning, they played with toys, and of course helped with the meal preparation. Jacob was so excited about the turkey & insisted that he wanted the wing. So we saved a wing especially for Jacob. Matthew was a sweet little baby and let me get a lot done! (We sure love his little swing.) Jeff had to go into the hospital that morning to see some patients, but he was back by about 2:30. We planned on eating around 4, and were actually right on schedule. We even had a guest for dinner, a nice man named Abi that Jeff home-teaches. It was fun to be able to sit down together and enjoy Thanksgiving dinner. The only problem was that Jeff got paged again right in the middle of dinner & had to go back to the hospital for an emergency and didn’t get home until 6:30. At least there was plenty of pie when he got home! We finished up the evening by playing games together.

Friday we spent mainly relaxing and enjoying the day together at home. Once again, Jeff had to go into the hospital a few times throughout the day. Jacob and Caleb also got to have some friends, Ben & Seth, over for a while to play on Friday morning. Friday night we had pizza & cinnamon rolls while we enjoyed some of the football games that were going on. We finished up the evening with more games and were all so tired at the end that we could barely stay awake.

Saturday morning, Kimberly & Mike had to head back home but the boys had one fun last walk with aunt Bo-Bo and got to play in some leaves with her. We said goodbye to them and spent the rest of the day just enjoying being home with nothing to do. (Well, me & the boys anyway- Jeff left at 8:30 in the morning & didn’t get home from the hospital & helping people move until 8:00 that night)

All in all, it was a pretty fun holiday weekend. Thanks Kimber & Mike, we loved having you here!