Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Thanksgiving, plus

We spent Thanksgiving and the whole 4 day weekend in Tucson.  My parents went to Florida to see my brother, so they were gone, but we stayed at their house without them.  Before leaving for Thanksgiving dinner at Michael's parents house we took some family pictures.

This is the 3rd year in a row Spencer has worn this shirt.  It's a 4T.  I don't think he'll be able to pull it off next year though.  I don't even know if Elliott will be able to wear it.  His shirt is a 3T.



Collage Time!

Spencer in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

We'll see if Elliott can get 1 more year with the shirt.  He'll have to stop growing immediately.

One more.  I just couldn't stop myself.

We used the timer on my phone camera to take these. 



The day ended up being really hot so both kids changed into shorts later on.



Then we headed over to Grandma and Papa's so we could get our grub on.

But first, more pictures.  Michael helped me with a test shot for lighting.


The official family 2014 Thanksgiving picture.

Since Nick had also been abandoned by our parents, he came over too.


We took the customary head tilt shot.

But they both felt their heads weren't tilted enough, so we did it again.

Ginger took a Thanksgiving nap.



Elliott ate his body weight in peanuts.  That's not going to help with the not growing thing.

We skyped with Michael's brother in Florida.

And we all nearly died from a diabetic coma after eating a piece of this.



Elliott and I did some relaxing after dinner.

And Michael built Spencer into jail.





My brother texted this picture of my niece enjoying some turkey on her first Thanksgiving.
Later than night we left the kids with Michael's parents. They ended up spending the rest of the weekend there and we saw them throughout the day as we showed up for food time and time again.

We went back to my parents house and took stupid pictures.

On Friday we went to Target to buy some lights.  We looked to see if anything was on sale that we could buy for Elliott's birthday.  There wasn't, but we did find a huge mistake in this packaging.  See if you can find it.


We also braved the mall to go to Build A Bear to get new Christmas bears.  They were 2 for $15 and I just couldn't pass up that price.  Elliott's is named Holly and Spencer's is named Jolly.
That afternoon Michael and I got Sonoran hot dogs and both Hunger Games movies on DVD so we could prepare to see the new Hunger Games the next day.
And that night we went to a speakeasy with Nick.  Pictures and phones are not allowed in the actual speakeasy, so we took these in the restaurant that the speakeasy is a part of before we went behind the secret door.



On Saturday I took 1 picture.  Of Ginger.  Isn't she the cutest?

And on Sunday we drove home.

We spent the rest of the day decorating outside and putting ornaments on the tree.  I will, of course, be doing a post about all of our decorations. 

And just like that, November, and this post, came to a close.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Decorations for the gobbler

The title is my attempt at being more creative than just "Thanksgiving Decorations- 2014".   I took pictures of all of our Thanksgiving decorations moments before I took them down and packed them away.  I don't really have a lot to say about them, so just scroll and enjoy. 
















See, I really didn't have anything to add.  

And this next part is going to be brief too.  This might be the quickest post of 2014.

Last week, on Tuesday, this is where I found Elliott after his non-nap.  Safe.  Real safe.
On Wednesday, before leaving to go to Tucson, we had to go for round 2 of allergy shots for Spencer.  Round 1 was shut down by a stupid nurse who refused to give Spencer his shots the day before because he coughed when he went in to get them.  Coughed.  Once.  He wasn't wheezing, he didn't feel sick, he didn't have a fever and he hadn't used albuterol.  He just, coughed.  So even though I went back there and explained that he pretty much coughs all winter long she insisted he had to be seen and cleared by a doctor before his shots.  I was pissed. 

So, we made an appointment and went back the next day.  Long story short, the nurse that day thought the whole thing was ridiculous and had the doctor listen to Spencer's lungs in the hallway.  The doctor agreed the whole thing was ridiculous, cancelled the appointment and said it was fine for Spencer to have his shots.  Exactly what I had said the day before.

We still had to wait the required 30 minutes after the shots before leaving, but thank goodness we didn't have to pay a $30 co-pay or sit through a non-needed appointment.


I have two more posts to wrap up Thanksgiving and November and then we can move on to the festiveness that is December.