Thanksgiving 2008

Thanksgiving break was was very nice and relaxing this year. Clay flew in late Wednesday evening from Los Angeles. Chad and I picked him up from DFW, of course Stella had to ride along as well. He is, we've decided, Stella's 3rd favorite person. We spent the next morning at our house and headed over to Susan and Gary's around 1:30. The house smelled so good! I miss waking up at mom and dad's to that smell of turkey cooking in the kitchen. I told Susan next year we'll have to sleep over the night before so we can wake up to it! I guess one of these years we'll actually host our first holiday and our house will smell the same.

Once again Susan outdid herself. We had turkey, mash potatoes, green beans and rolls. Susan made her famous yams which are a new Thanksgiving favorite of mine. We also had dressing, which we all agreed was outstanding this year! I have to say that this year, being pregnant, I took full advantage of the surplus of food. I'm looking forward to Christmas dinner as well :).

As usual, Gary took the annual Thanksgiving Day photo. Maybe next year we can figure out a way to get him in the photo as well.

We spent the rest of the weekend hanging out around our house. I tried to nap as much as possible, taking the advice of every mom I've recently come across. They all say to get as much sleep as you can before the baby comes. Overall, it was a very relaxing and low key holiday, perfect for this mommy to be!!!