Thanksgiving

My mom told me this year that Thanksgiving is the forgotten holiday when it comes to taking pictures. As I thought about it for a moment, I realized that she was right. In our family, we never truly document our Thanksgiving in pictures as we do at Christmas. Even in looking back at the pictures that I did capture this year, it is not a complete summary of our time together and there are several family members that I didn't even get a picture of :-( I hope to do better next year!

We spent Thanksgiving week at Mimi's house this year. After lunch on Thanksgiving Day, we loaded up and took off to get home for some Black Friday shopping and to celebrate Ben's birthday. Then we concluded our Thanksgiving festivities on Saturday with Ben's family in Gainesville.

Thanksgiving at Mimi's

Electronic entertainment while cooking is going on

 Caden's cheese face

 Mimi beginning to set up the dessert table

 Chad carving the turkey while the dogs drool...literally

 

 Feeling full after the meal :-)

I'm sad that we missed the big Holloway reunion when everyone was
able to get together that weekend but hopefully we'll make it next year!

 The day after Thanksgiving was Ben's birthday so I 

ordered a golf cake to celebrate with his family

Thanksgiving at the Buffington's

Unfortunately, I didn't get pictures of everyone there 

but we had a great time catching up with family!

Mike and Melissa

 Trish and Lynn sharing Pinterest ideas

John Michael and Heston

 
 Wanda and Ethan

 We have totally cut back on the electronics 

now that we are home and getting back into routine. 

Evidently the cousins had some pretty cool games on their iPods :-)

So sorry to Ben, Gary, Cheri, and Daniel for missing you in pictures. I'll do better next year!