Giving Thanks

We took an extended trip to Grandma and Grandpa's for Thanksgiving. The weekend before, I was able to fill two of my three turkey tags. This is the second year in a row that I was able to get a turkey the weekend before Thanksgiving.

We were concerned about getting caught by weather on Wednesday morning, and decided to leave at midnight to get out ahead of any weather. As it turned out, the roads didn't get that bad, but we were still able to log almost all of the miles of the trip with the kids sound asleep.

Thanksgiving was spent wrangling kids (ours and our nephews) and just relaxing with family.




On the way back, Eli and Alison took turns playing with the camera on my phone - they're getting pretty good!



We suffered a slight bit of insanity and chose to go to IKEA and the Mall of America the Sunday after Thanksgiving - amazingly enough, it didn't seem that busy and the kids did really well - AND we managed to find the dining room table we've been looking for.