Thanksgiving 2012

I have been woefully lax in keeping up with  my blog. There are several reasons, but mostly I simply have tried to do too many things at once. Working, holidays, birthday--all took up my time. So here I am getting caught up.

We went to Indiana to be with family for Thanksgiving.

We hadn't been to Indiana since June, so we were ready for a road trip.  We stopped in Grand Rapids for lunch, and Aaralynne was a silly girl while we waited for our order.



We stayed with my brother and went to my sister Kathy's for Thanksgiving Day. My daughter Christine and her family were there, along with some of her cousins.

Annie, Aaralynne, Scott (hiding behind Aaralynne), Allison, Emily holding Nicholas, Matthew, Christine and Daniel



Kathy and Christine enjoying time together

A few more candid shots from the family get-together. 

My brother's granddaughter Sophia came later and we all hovered over her. She was a little shy, but went right to Emily. She loves Kathy and began to relax. I finally caught a smile. She is such a sweetie.

Aaralynne and I stayed as long as we could at Kathy's, while Christine's family left to spend time with her husband's family. Sophia took a little nap, so Aaralynne had the older cousins to herself. She sat on their laps and played with their phones, talking to each of them on the phone. Then she decided she should just have both phones and talk to herself. It was pretty funny and we all had a good laugh.

On Friday, Aaralynne and I went shopping with Kathy and the girls. Christine begged off so she could spend time with her husband's family and head home in the afternoon. We had a great time and headed home ourselves on Saturday. We stopped to see Aaralynne's Great-Grandmother on our way and had a nice visit with her.

We got home before the snow started, but enjoyed seeing a little bit of white in the morning. 

Just enough to get us in the mood for Christmas coming. But first, some little girl I know turned 6 just a week later. More to come.