Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving, we drove to Indiana to spend the holiday with B's family.  We spent Thanksgiving at my brother-in-law's where we ate too much and the kids played hard together.

Very thankfully that all the kids get along so well.

U seemed a little more excited about taking a picture than Etta.  :)

But he was less than thrilled at the end of the night when I made him sit with his sister.  He was done.

We went back to B's parent's to relax and hang out or so I thought.  At 8:30, B got restless and wanted to go shopping.  We sent him and his dad out to scope out the crowds and grab a few things.  Classic B got flustered over the TWO things I told him to pick up and came home empty handed so I went back out with him and we knocked out our entire Christmas list!

I have NEVER been a Black Friday shopper but the three places we went weren't that bad and I didn't have urge to punch anyone.  It was a win/win.

Friday morning, we all went back out to do a little more shopping and these two got matching coats.

They were stuck to each other's hips all weekend.

Saturday, we went ice skating down in Indy.

This was C's first time skating and she wasn't sure about it at first.

We had to have a little pep talk after one time around the rink but after that, she loved it!  Well except she didn't like holding on to her daddy.  

As my niece put it, 'he is unstable.'  Ha!  If she only knew.  ;)

So it was up to her aunt and uncle to take her around.

The ice skating crew.

All 3 big kids loved skating and it will definitely be on our must do again list.

The rest of the night, the kids played while the adults chatted and caught up on life.  We left Sunday morning thinking we would beat most of the heavy traffic.  Not so much.  We all were dead tired and this morning was by far one of the worst reality checks we've had.  C kept yelling no over and over this morning when we were trying to get her out of bed.  She is her mama's child.