It's going to be hard to head back to work tomorrow. I've essentially been off since Monday because Tuesday morning Mallory was running a 99 degree temp, kinda crabby and looked like she was pulling at her ears some. So instead of waiting until it could possibly get worse, we went to the Dr Tuesday morning. I knew it was probably either teething or an ear infection and Dr Phillips is out on Tuesday's so we saw Dr. Gannon. After about 2 seconds he knew it wasn't her ears, which I was glad to know and then pretty much after her appointment she was fine! Just more teething....one day one of those buggers will pop out! Oh well, being home Tuesday gave me time to put up the Christmas tree and hang the wreaths outside while the weather was still warm and nice.
Ben's parents arrived Wednesday afternoon and Ben made us a big batch of chili for dinner. Thursday morning was more of just getting everything together, making my sides and getting everything set up for my family to arrive around 3pm.
A few Pre-Tgiving Bean pictures:
Everything went well, Turkey and Deer Ham and a house full of people! Although we were glad to have the rain, it really would have been nicer if they hadn't had to deal with driving in all that pouring rain on the way here and back, but you cannot control Mother Nature!. I really enjoy family gatherings, especially when you don't have to worry about presents! Just each other, makes me happy!
Here's Mallory enjoying her 1st Thanksgiving meal with everyone else and some other fun pictures from the evening!
There was NO crack-of-pre-dawn shopping for any of us! Just a leisurly morning and then we did go out around lunch and run to Sears and out to eat. We did hit Kohl's at 1:30 pm and the line was STILL WRAPPED AROUND THE STORE!! I 1:30 pm, there is nothing at Kohl's that I want so bad as to stand in that line!
Between Friday night and Saturday night, we watched 3 movies....I don't remember when I watched that many movies in like a 6 month time frame, much less 2 days! It was good to be lazy for once. We watched Eat, Pray, Love and Grownups on Friday night, which I liked both, and Saturday night was the Expendables...which held my attention for all of 5 minutes. Ben watched it all while I laid on the couch and played on my iphone. Not my kind of movie, so I guess I really only WATCHED 2, but either way, more movies were watched in this house than had been in a very long time!
Ben's parents left Saturday morning and we've just spent the rest of the weekend not doing a lot of anything. So for me, this was the ideal Thanksgiving weekend. We didn't have to travel nor did we have anything we had to do. I would like to repeat this year over and over and over again in the future!
Mallory seemed to enjoy her first Thanksgiving as well, being the center of attention and everything! I think her meal consisted of squash, one of her favs!
Now I'm on the quest for that perfect picture of Mallory and Tucker for our Christmas cards! I think this will take several takes over several days!
Here's more pictures of our weekend!
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