turkey day...

For most people, one Thanksgiving dinner where you devour all the turkey, potatoes, stuffing and pie as your belly and pants can possibly hold is plenty. Think of the thousands of calories in that one, go-for-it meal and the countless hours on the treadmill to reverse the damage. Aaaahhh...gluttonous bliss. 

Our makeshift dining table - 2
picnic tables, 1 king size sheet,
1 tablecloth, 10 mismatched
chairs & wine glasses. Perfect.

For the past 10 years, Scott and I have had the pleasure of gorging not just once, but twice. In the same day. We always go to his parents' house for early dinner around 2 and then head over to my parents' for late dinner around 6. So technically, it's not even twice in 24 hours...it's twice in like 4 hours. I'm still not recovered!

The cool thing is that, unlike a lot of people, we actually like spending time with our families, especially at the holidays! If we could have 2 full separate days to celebrate with each of them instead of splitting the day, we'd be set.  

kissing cousins

Sloane with cousins Ashley, 3,
and Kayla/Eula, 4 months.

Sloane was content to hang out with her cousins and pose for photos most of the day.

Grama, Sloane and Ashley.

Tagg, on the other hand, ran like a bat out of hell for most of the day so every photo I got of him was blurry.

Becky always jokes that Harper looks like
she ate Sloane. Not true, but she definitely
looks like she wants to!

Sloane in Thanksgiving
outfit #2. Stylin'!

We were a little worried about Tagg. He was offered monkey bread (this caramel-y, nutty evilness that Sandy makes), chocolate pie and banana pie and turned it down not once but TWICE - for a banana. Either he's weird or we've done a really good job of raising him to eat healthy!


thinking of you
Obviously this is the time of year, when we are reminded of all of our blessings and with Sloane's adoption finalization just yesterday, we're even more grateful than usual for our amazing children and the impossibly wonderful people who gifted them to us. We were not alone...I got this text from Tagg's baby family:
"Happy Thanksgiving! hope u all had a wonderful day. we r so thankful for u and scott being such wonderful parents to tagg. love you guys."

Now that's pretty cool.