Monday, November 24, 2008

Happy Early Thanksgiving!

We are so excited about Thanksgiving this year! We are hosting for the first time ever.... although I can't take credit for doing it all... everyone is bringing a side and/or dessert and my parents will be here to help get things ready that morning, so I'm not really doing a whole lot. It will be fun to be at our own house though! Waylon's parents, my parents, and Andrea, Sean and Savannah will all be here to celebrate.

Now for this past weekend's update. We were actually home again which was nice. We got some errands run and did some catching up around here which is always nice.

I worked Thursday since I was off last Monday so it was still a 'full' week for me - all 3 days full! :-) On Friday morning, Noah and I went to the mall and called Nana last minute to see if she wanted to come meet us for lunch. That was a fun last minute decision! Noah was excited to see her and waved until she was out of sight when we left! :-)


Hanging with Nana in the food court

Waylon got home early on Friday so we ran a few errands, one of which was to change our phone plans... I got a new phone which was very exciting for me! :-) We were planning to get me a new MP3 player for Christmas but this new phone has a memory card and MP3 capabilities. It's been so fun to have a new toy! :-)

On Saturday, another fun last minute decision - the plan was to go to the grocery store as a family but when Amy called and said that the library was having a story time at 11, Noah and I decided that Daddy could handle the grocery store alone and we'd go to storytime! :-)


Storytime with Stella Dot

At noon, Waylon went to watch the state game at our friends' house and I stayed home while Noah napped. When Noah woke up, we joined Waylon over there and got to hang out with everyone for a while. Around 5:30, we headed home to meet Waylon's childhood friend, Steven, who was passing through town on his way home to Greensboro. He stayed the night and to give them time to 'bond', I decided to head back to our friends Josh and Anise's house - they were all still hanging out from the game!


Don't they look like brothers?!

On Sunday, a few more errands and I did my 2.75 mile run! Tomorrow, I'll do 3 miles which pretty much makes me ready for the 5K on Dec 6th. By the way, if anyone would like to make a donation to the Arthritis Foundation, feel free to visit my website and support my run, too!

Anyway, Sunday afternoon we had a party for Waylon's dad's 60th birthday! They came over along with Andrea, Sean and Savannah. We were originally going to go to their house but since we have the NFL Season Ticket package, Waylon wanted them to come here, so he could watch the Redskins game! :-) So they were nice enough to pack up everything and bring it to our house. It was so fun to see Savannah again... she's changing so much these days. And Noah had the best time playing with everyone - especially the birthday boy! Dick (Waylon's dad) made a train out of crates and toys and all sorts of things and pulled Noah around for so long. What a fun night!

Riding Grandaddy's train

Loving Aunt Andrea and Cousin Savannah

Playing hide and seek with Grandad
Savannah is finally old enough to use Noah's jumperoo!
Happy Birthday Grandad!After everyone left, we were getting ready to put Noah to bed and were finishing cleaning up the kitchen when we realized that he was eerily quiet... this is how we found him! :-)


I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! We sure have a lot to be thankful for... here's one example (you know me and the messy face pics!). :-)

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