Our Thanksgiving got off to a rocky start as Nicholas got a stomach bug on Wednesday morning as we were packing up the car to head to Grandad and Kaki's house. So we stuck around and tended to him on Wednesday praying that our Thanksgiving wasn't ruined. Thankfully, God answered our prayers and amazingly Nick was better on Thursday morning and Graham and I never got sick! So we packed things up (dog and all) 24 hours behind schedule and headed up to the cabin. We had Thanksgiving dinner at the Newman's home and it was wonderful as always. The kids, Nicholas, Trip and Mady, had a great time playing with each other. They spent the majority of the time playing outside. The boys played tackle football with their daddy's and they went on walks to see the tractor and the neighbor's horses. Nicholas did not want to come inside at all. Of course the food was delicious and the company even better! Afterwards, we all came back to Grandad and Kaki's to stay the night. The kids loved joining in on some of the Garrison holiday traditions as Grandad put in the tape of Lauren and Graham's favorite Christmas songs and the whole family danced like crazy. That night, Trip and Nicholas got to have a slumber party and did really well sleeping in the same room. Baxter did not behave as well as the kids and got into the chocolate chip cookies and ran into Lauren, TJ, and Mady's room at 4 am, creating lots of chaos. On Friday, Lauren and I had a great time doing some shopping while everyone else stayed back home and played or helped out around the house.
We came home Friday night and managed to have a date night! Mimi and PopPop got some quality time with Nick while Graham and I got to go see New Moon--woohoo! It was great to get out with just my hubby. I know soon we won't get these opportunities for a long time.
On Saturday I was able to join Ashley and Mom shopping for a wedding dress! Ashley got the most beautiful dress and she will be absolutely stunning on her day! I still cannot believe we are planning her wedding :) Then of course Saturday night we watched the wonderful Georgia win over Tech. Graham is still on a high from the game! We finished everything off on Sunday with church and then a family advent service Sunday night to start the Christmas season off in a wonderful way. Nicholas loved the music and was dancing in the aisles. He wanted to badly to join the children's choir up on the stage and did not understand why he couldn't go be with the other kids. We are so excited for this wonderful season of Christmas to begin. How extra special this December will be!
My camera was having problems so I wasn't able to take any pictures, however my Flip camera was working well and I took lots of video of our Thanksgiving. I tried to upload a few and it was taking forever so I will try again tomorrow hopefully.
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