Thanksgiving and Family Time

This year, our whole family was able to get together in GA for Thanksgiving.  Mom and Dad were home from Guatemala for a few weeks and all of the siblings and their spouses were able to have the day off.  Some may not understand why this is so unusual but my 2 brother-in-laws are both in law enforcement and Mike was out of the country last year for his job.

We had a good time together, wonderful food, and went ahead with our family Christmas exchange.  This year we did a gift card exchange.  Everyone brought a gift card and we did the "White Elephant" game where you picked a number and were able to switch around.  Everyone was pretty tame with the game since all the gift cards were good!  It is a fun way to still do gifts but not put too much emphasis on the gift itself.   For Mom and Dad's gift from the kids, we had coffee mugs that we all signed and then baked in the ink (yep, pinterest idea!).  I think they were a hit!

We didn't get a whole family (with spouses) picture for some reason...we may have been a little preoccupied between the food, games, and Thanksgiving/Christmas movies...but we did get pictures of the original 6.

Mike and I were able to get in a few pictures too for our Christmas card and to document 25.5 weeks.

And, a sister/cousin picture...me at 25.5 weeks and Bec at 17.5 weeks