Thanksgiving 2012 Recap

When you host a whole bunch of family, Thanksgiving moves past a single day of celebration and becomes more of a week long event. The celebration started before anyone even arrived, because Monday was my birthday! (And also my mother-in-law's birthday, so I'm sure there was celebrating there as well). I am now officially in my 30's, but still act and feel somewhere around 22.

Once people arrived we spent most of our time playing with cute babies, eating, and laughing. Rhys is about 6 weeks older than his newest cousin Colin, and those 6 weeks were pretty obvious in weight! Colin is just as long as Rhys, but quite a few pounds lighter. They had fun laying around and getting tickled.

Babies! Rhys on the left, Colin on the right.

And Rhys had fun showing off his rolling skills and squashing Colin! He looks extra big in his cloth diapers.

Look out! Rhys attack!

Colin got his new blanket. I like how it turned out, and he seems to be a fan as well.

We ate. A lot.

Thanksgiving feast

We had pie. An extra lot!

Pecan, Chocolate, Pumpkin. With a side of homemade whipped cream.

On Saturday we had our awesome Race for the Pie! We were joined by some of Geoff's family from the eastern part of North Carolina, and his cousin Suz beat us all in the race. I was very pleased with how I did, finishing in 24:38, a big improvement over my last official 5k (26:23 was the old time). Everyone got a finisher's medal, which was a hand-print turkey made by Cora with my assistance. Most of them broke or lost their googly eyes (goopy eyes, as Cora calls them) by the end of the day. Oh well. We are also decked out in our family color-coded T-shirts made by Geoff's sister Janna!

Ignore how bad we look. We just ran a race, for goodness' sakes!

The best part of the day, though, was watching Cora play with Allie, who is 7 or so months younger. They were hilarious in all respects. They even had their own little fun run which was full of awkward movements and flailing arms from both girls while Cora ran on her tiptoes the entire way.

100 ft Toddler Fun Run

All in all, it was a great holiday and a much needed break for both me and Geoff. And although it's sad to see family leave, it was nice to be back to our regular routine for a few days. Because then my mom came for a visit!