Thanksgivin

Thanksgiving Take Two:

Well here is the shake down on our second Thanksgiving together. Traditionally my family takes turns seeing family during the Thanksgiving season, last year we spent with my family for half of the day and then the second half with his. We then flew to Alabama for about two weeks to spend the Christmas Holiday with his family. As mentioned in earlier posts I am very excited to have our first 'at home' holiday season.

To hit the insanity off we had our first official Dexter year. After a stressful past two weeks (sliced finger open, Grandfather fell off a tree and broke his skull resulting in six staples, complications with fall causes need to surgery, computer goes officially kaput must buy a new-yes cause THAT IS what I wanted to do with all of my money- I mean I didn't really mean to drop it...it was all a surprise phone call...the shock made me do it, insanity preparation for thanksgiving begin). All in all we held together pretty well...I think. David really stepped up and helped out around the house. We were able to get almost everything finished that I was worried about (did I mention my four page to-do list? Oh well, too late now.) I am really blessed.



I was asked to make pies this year (same as last) and once again tried to figure out the recipe for the custard pies from the restaurant I use to work at. I thought I did pretty good but the family poo-pooed the attempt, at least David's family was appreciative. There was a little confusion about making a cream pie, guess we will fix that one next time though. After a dinner full of family and funny stories we took the little kids to the park. This park has so many slides and fun fun stuff, I kinda wish that I had played there when I was a kid. After a while we noticed the smallest member of our party was shaking with cold so we headed back to grandma's house to play several serious rounds of Candy Land. Honestly this was probably my favorite memory of the entire day. David's brother Stephen and I have never really spent a ton of time interacting together and during our game of Candy Land (which he totally trashed us all) we had a really great time!

The next day (or rather later that night) David and I headed out for our traditional day after Thanksgiving shopping. This has long been one of my personal traditions, one I share with a few friends and my mother, but this is only David's second year. Last year he was very shell shocked and struggled to keep up in the throngs, but after training at Disneyland he promptly took control this year and scored himself a new television, portable hard drive, and well thats about it. by the end of the day we were completely exhausted. David was able to squeeze in a nap and then ventured out later that night for a movie with his family.