For Thanksgiving this year, Chris and I decided to give his parents a break, and have it at our new house. We figured since we have a bigger house this year, and there was an expected 20 people, that our house was the best choice. They happily agreed, and still did the food. I thought that was a deal. ALL I had to do was clean the house.. no food prep or anything! (BUT, if you know me, cleaning the house = HUGE deal!). Anyways, we started cleaning a week before Thanksgiving (see BABY POWDER post... at least that got us started...). The night before Thanksgiving everything was ready to go.. except, I had to decorate the kitchen (since moving in, I still hadn't put up too many decorations so I decided the night before Thanksgiving that this was indeed the time to decorate), clean and repaint my chairs (they are black chairs and for some unknown reason, Noah thinks that eating the chairs counts as a meal. Yes, he is 6.. thanks for asking. I figure there has to be SOME kind of protein/lead in the paint, so it shouldn't hurt... WHAT?? lead is BAD??? uh oh, better get him tested... Although drawing blood from him is a terrible experience... maybe I'll wait and schedule for a time when he disobeys.. that way it can be his "punishment" "I told you NOT to hit your sisters... now we have to get your blood drawn!".. no?? oh well... back to Thanksgiving)... and clean out the fridge and microwave.. my two LEAST favorite things to clean! (funny story, though. When I was on bedrest when I was pregnant with Kate, my mom cleaned out the refridge for me so I would have a nice clean fridge when I came home from the hospital. Well, I kind of leave things in the fridge for a LONG time.. you know, out of sight - out of mind... anyways, when she cleaned out a tea container that had been there probably since I was pregnant with Noah, she SWEARS there was a worm growing in there.. hahaha... maybe it's a good thing I'm writing this AFTER Thanksgiving... TMI???)
Anyways, Thanksgiving morning comes and I decided we needed some pies, so I run and get them, and everything was ready! We had a turnout of 18. Yes, you ARE right.. we were expecting 20, but in a DRAMATIC turn of events (not really...) My brother and sister-in-law (that just had a baby, Addison.. so cute!) went to my parents for Thanksgiving, so obviously, my parents had to stay at their house. (Megans parents were coming for Thanksgiving but decided not to so they had no place to go.... hmmm.. that totally just made it sound like my parents were their last choice.. hahaha.. see why I SHOULD be the favorite??) So all of Chris's side of the family came and we had a WONDERFUL time. It was so nice having people over at our new house to "initiate" it. There were 5 kids and 13 adults. The food was wonderful!!! Those Surface's and Millers (my mother-in-laws family) sure know how to cook! We had a great time with wonderful people! We have SO much to be thankful for!! There were only a few things missing! A certain set of parents (mine, of course!), a certain new niece (addison), I guess a brother (Dustin), and of course, Addisons mommy (MEG :)), another sister and brother-in-law (Chris's sister, Michelle and her husband, Deke.. and they are expecting in May!!! So next year.. another new baby!! yay!!!) and an Aunt and Uncle from Colorado, who I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to come visit us down here!! (where, by the way Uncle Nelson, It was 77 degrees yesterday, and today a cold front came through and it's 50 degrees.. so much better than below 0!!!!!!! ), I would also love my grandpa and mamaw to come down as well!! So I expect my family to make SOME kind of showing next year!!! Maybe they read my blog too much and know about the worm in the fridge! Maybe I say too much.....
Anyways, no pics. because the pictures my father-in-law took, for some reason, won't download on this wonderful computer we have... (darn MAC)...
until next post... (don't expect one tomorrow.. like I said, don't want to raise the bar too high!!)
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