Kurt and his family and Frank and Trish all flew in and we spent the day together.
We left our house at 7am for the drive to NY. Ally and Cloey slept for about 2 of the 3 hour drive.
The cousins played games before heading to see Grandpa Frank.
Girls in the backseat. We talked to Aunt Suzie in Arizona in the car blue tooth and listened to her play Happy Birthday on the oboe. Meredith kept talking about it all day.
Kaitlin and Ally really wanted canned jellied cranberry sauce.
Ally’s plate. The only thing left was some corn.
Playing Spot It with Grandpa Frank after dinner.
Group photo time
Ally wanted some apple pie with her whipped cream for desert.
And she ate every bite of pie and cream.
We then played Heads Up for about an hour. Lots of fun with this family friendly game.
Later after we said good bye to Grandpa Frank for the day and Uncle Frank for the Holiday we want back to Grandpa Frank’s house to hang out, watch the Cowboys football game and wait for Target to open.
It is a tradition that we go shopping on Thanksgiving. This year Jackson joined us too.
Quick note that before we left Ally and Kaitlin finished off the canned cranberry sauce. Crazy! The 2 of them are the whole can.
Target!
I give the kids a set amount and they shop for their Burthday Christmas gifts.
Jackson finished his early and so Becky brought him
back to the house. The girls and I had a snack break and then shopped some more.
One big request they had was for matching pajamas. It’s something I have done for them every year we spend Thanksgiving together. I had thought they were too old for this tradition but I was wrong.
Above is this year 2019. Below is 2016.
And of course they wanted to recreate their iconic hold Meredith pose.
It was a different Thanksgiving from years last. We ordered a full catered meal, had it in a rehab but we were together and being together is more important that food or location.
