Thanksgiving Week

 Whew! It's been a whirlwind week. Here's a quick re-cap where I realized that I am really dropping the ball on picture taking. 

Right before thanksgiving break, my team had a teams-giving lunch. They are the best.

I started my break by flying to DC to spend a quick weekend with my Aunt and Uncle. My Uncle had a heath-scare in September and just recently moved from the hospital, to a re-hab facility, to assisted living. He hasn't been there very long, but was looking great when I went to see him. My aunt is now in a memory care senior center and absolutely broke my heart. Despite mentally preparing myself for any and everything, she did not recognize me. A few times it seemed she would be very close to putting it all together, but she just never got there. I was still so glad to see her. 

Here's the only picture I took on my entire trip. (Fail!) I sent this to Jon and he texted back "no thank you" and it did make me lol. (Win!)

The day I flew home we picked up the Ollie and Nolan from our buddy Owen's house (they spent the night so Jon could still work Monday). Ollie majorly crashed when he got home. It sounded like non-stop trampoline, football, catch, repeat. 

The next day we drove to Burnet, TX to spend the day at Camp Buckner with the Hohbeins. 

We did a high ropes course, and you better believe I harnessed up as well. I went on the big swing and Laura filmed the entire spectacle, complete with a child shouting, "That's the funniest thing I've ever seen a grown up do!"

Hiking

Seth and Nolan, two peas in a pod.

Thanksgiving Dinner

We took Seth home with us and he spent the night with Nolan and those two played and played the next day. The rest of the Hohbeins came later in the morning and Sam, Jon, Micah, and our Seth went to see Dune, while everyone else explored parks, ate at Hat Creek, and checked out more milkshakes at the Yard.

The next day was Thanksgiving! We all signed up for a Turkey Trot, but only Jon and Ollie ended up running. Seth decided the night before that there was no way he was going to wake up that early. Nolan and I had a huge allergy attack for half of the week and Nolan was just too sleepy from benadryl and did not want to run. 

I'm really proud of these two! I was sad to miss out, but it was also really cold that morning soooo.... oh well. Ollie placed 4th in his age category and finished in around 24 minutes. Jon is old like me, so anything we even attempt is impressive. 

At home prepping our food to take to the Guenther's for Thanksgiving. Seth is an expert potato peeler.

Here's another major photo fail, no pictures of everyone from friends-giving! During a board game I realized I could hear Joe snoring and decided it was probably time to skee-dat-el. 

The next day we bought a new car! It's a 2019 Chevy Traverse; tentatively named Fang. The blue car had it's final drive about 2 weeks ago and completely blew it's engine. 

The last few days have been filled with movie nights and enjoying family time. 

And today we put up the Christmas Tree!

I'd say we packed way too much into this week to actually feel like a break, but that's just how it goes sometimes. We have so much to be thankful for, and so many wonderful people in our lives. Only three full weeks of school before we have Christmas break; I'm already ready!