A Texas Thanksgiving

Soooo, I just came back from my first TX Thanksgiving in several years.  Holiday flights between Chicago and Dallas are HIGHWAY ROBBERY.  People, we are talking $400+.  Every year, I have to choose whether to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas in TX, and Christmas always wins, so I usually spend Thanksgiving in the Chi with friends.

Well, after missing many Thanksgivings, my parents put their feet down and so I was home for Thanksgiving this year.  :D  Meet the fam:

You want to know something funny?  This isn't even everyone.  We're missing a few up there because I couldn't get snaps of everyone in my limited time at home - so... there will be pickup shots come Christmas.  Also, Mr and Mrs Tweets' chick-let is busy being a fetus, so that got in the way of being photographed.

This was the first Thanksgiving in awhile that we all were home at the same time.  Some things hadn't changed:

We own more Volvos than the dealership...And other people came home with VERY BIG TATS!

My sister Ali has been thinking about getting this tat for over four years, and she finally did it!  It's a reproduction of a mother's day card that our grandmother (who is Ali's namesake) gave our great grandmother wayyyyyyyyyy back in the 1930s.  Our "Granny" gave Ali this card when she was tiny, and it's one of her most prized possessions.  I love it!

We had fun in the kitchen...

We ate lots of food and drank tons of fancy cider:

And of course, there was foosball and board games.  And cheating.  Lots and lots of cheating.  We didn't even fight!  Another Christmas miracle!

We had a great Thanksgiving.  How was yours?

Comments

[Anne]

Three things:

1. You look gorgeous in that photo! And so happy! :)

2. I love seeing pictures of your family. They look like a super fun bunch!

And 3. Your sister's tat is GORGEOUS! I love it!

[The Blue Muse]

Beautiful photos! What a joyous lookin' holiday.