Thanksgiving is a great holiday, and this year I had a great time with family and friends. Due to the scheduling of football, it makes scheduling the holidays pretty easy, we spend Thanksgiving day and some of Black friday with Lu's side of the family, then Saturday (game day) with mine.
I will go ahead and get this out of the way, the game was disappointing because we lost, but it is only football and spending time with my family was way more important.
So back to thursday, we went down to Lake Sinclair since a large portion of the extended family lives down there, and everyone was over at Lu's cousin's house. We has sooo much food. it was fun seeing everyone and meeting a few new people, some that are soon to me related as some of the cousins are engaged. We had lots of fun watching people play corn hole, it was quite entertaining. Then after a while of just fellowshipping, we headed back home. Lu's mom and sister stayed the night with us that night as the ladies were going out to brave the crowds and do some shopping. Happily I can report that there were no injuries and almost complete success at finishing the Christmas shopping list that day, Lu was on FIRE!
I was out shopping as well, but for a slightly more important reason, my Christmas present! We decided to buy a TV, so I needed to go check out the deals and play with the sets in person and make sure the skewing that they do for displaying in the store isn't making the TV look better than it is. I also picked up a few stocking stuffers.
Friday afternoon, we, we being Lu, her sister, my dad and I, went to the Georgia Tech Basketball game. We played Mercer and won, and although it was a double digit win, it still wasn't as convincing as I would have liked. I think this season might be another rough one for my Yellow Jackets. The game was a lot of fun though and we really enjoyed that. Then we all went and grabbed some Tin Drum for dinner. It was a great day.
Saturday morning, after taking sister-in-law to the airport for her to head back to Albuquerque, we drove on up to my parents house for brunch. Mom didn't hold back and laid out an awesome spread for brunch, which was a good thing cause we got there and were pretty hungry. Then it was decorating the house, watching football and hanging out time. It was just a fun day. We missed my big sis, who is working out in Kansas City, MO, but we get to see her in a couple of weeks so that is ok. My job for the day was to put up lights on mom's roof, she really likes the lights. I ended up having to climb up on the roof to hang them all, but again thankfully no injuries to report. Dad made some yummy korean steaks and we kept hanging out through the game. Then Lu and I headed home since we had church the next morning.
After church we volunteered at the Free Gift Wrapping booth our church sponsors through the holidays, and it was a lot of fun. I only had one box to wrap, but of course, Lu and Amy let me wrap the octagonal box. that was quite fun, but the lady was pleased with the job I did, and I guess I impressed the other two worker bees.
Then we went home, and after Lu took a nap, I set to work on helping decorate our house. Thanks to my dad who bought Lu this house warming gift:
A better close up of the front porch all lit up.
All in all we had a very awesome holiday. I am excited that Christmas is right around the corner and that I get to spend more time with the wonderful friends and family in my life.
I am very Thankful.
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