{hallie}lujah: Sweet Home Alabama Thanksgiving

What a wonderful treat--Hallie and I flew into Birmingham *early* on the Saturday before Thanksgiving! We were very thankful to be spending some extra time with the family during our break. Jonathan joined us Wednesday morning. We had a lot of fun visiting and relaxing. Several days were dreary, but Thanksgiving day was beautiful! We enjoyed some delicious food (too much of it!), played outside, and then Jonathan and I went to see a movie with my brother and his wife while the little girls played with Nonna and Pop. After the movie, Jessica (my SIL) and I talked Jonathan into heading to Target to try to get some Black Friday deals. We thought they opened at 9:00...nope. Midnight. We weren't going to stand in line, so we went on to Wal-Mart. Talk about cray-zee! Oh. My. Word. Seriously...it was a madhouse. Even if we had found anything to buy, the check-out lines were so long...we'd have been 3 hours getting out of there! So we opted to just head home. I have never been Black Friday shopping...or "pre" Black Friday shopping. The experience (as short as it was) was quite interesting to say the least. Next year I just might join the crazies. :o)

The feast! Yummy! It was my intention to get a picture with all the guests. Alas, I failed.

Jessica and I tried snapping some pictures of the girls after lunch. I hope her pictures are better because this is what Hallie was doing in most of the ones I tried to take of her! Ha!