Thanksgiving

We lucked out with an easy, easy holiday this year.  Though relaxing in Wimberley last year wasn't so bad... but as far as Houston holidays go, it was simple.  We got off work around noon on Wednesday, and Jeremy and I had a little date lunch at Benjy's before we picked up Sawyer from school.  It was a really nice day, so we got some ice cream and took Sawyer to the Arboretum to stretch his legs.  This guy loves walking and running so he loved it! (Though it was a chore keeping him on the designated path.)

Wednesday night we met some friends for dinner then bowling.  It's hard to beat a rousing game of ten pin with our friends!  I wish I had a picture because we took some cute ones... maybe Emily will share one day. :)

Thursday we had a very relaxing morning and headed over to my dad's house around lunch time.  All I had to bring were 2 pumpkin pies and green bean casserole - I got off pretty easy!  My sister is a stickler for our traditional family recipes so she and my dad handled most of the menu, and Heather and Gigi filled in a few gaps.  We had a couple hours to kill before eating - we cooked approximately eleventy billion dishes in a single oven.  Our menu included turkey, my Nanny's dressing, my mom's sweet potato casserole, Heather's sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, homemade rolls (the best!), toasted pecans, pecan pie, coconut cream pie, pumpkin chiffon pie and key lime pie (yes, 5 pies, but there were 12 of us).  Sawyer normally loves turkey but didn't really want any - he did go to town on the whole berry cranberry sauce!  I could not believe how much he ate of it.  Between dinner and pie we walked to the playground and let Sawyer play.  He had a blast swinging and sliding - he would just jump head first down the slides, not even hesitating to see if I was there to catch him (I always was!).  Sawyer was a good trooper because he only got about a 10 minute nap in the car on the way there, and he was a sweetheart the whole time.  And then crashed hard on the way home!

These are the only pictures I got!

We were busy Thursday night packing because we left the next day for Dallas for Becky's wedding.  Hope you all had relaxing holidays with lots of food, family and football, too!

...oh yeah...
and UT BEAT A&M!!!!!!!!!