Thanksgiving

I have almost no pictures from Thanksgiving....not sure why I didn't take any, must have just been having too much fun!  But we had a wonderful Thanksgiving at my parents house this year.  First major holiday living in Michigan, and let me tell you, not having to drive 6hrs to my parents house was AMAZING!  We headed to Dearborn Wednesday afternoon.  We were able to go to my parents' church for the Thanksgiving service Wednesday evening, it is always fun for me to be able to go back to the church I grew up in and catch up with people there. 

Thursday my mom got the big ol' bird in the oven at 8am and started preparing the feast!  The extended DeKruyter family all came over from west Michigan to celebrate.  We had a great time!  Alec kept saying he waits for this meal every year. 

Brie didn't exactly know what was going on, she slept AWFUL the night before so she actually ended up naping during Thanksgiving lunch.  Oh well, it was actaully good because then Alec and I could eat our meal in peace (is that bad to say.....oops, but so true!).  She wanted nothing to do with Thanksgiving food, she was just being a stinker about food that day.  Pretty sure she only ate the applesauce and then some of the food I had packed from home for her.  She did enjoy playing with my younger cousins though, she thought Jack (he's in 2nd grade....I think) was hilarious for some reason. 

I have so much to be thankful for, and I definitely have been using this season of Thanksgiving to reflect on that.  God has blessed me so richly; an amazing hubby, adorable daughter, new job, health of myself and family, and living near family.  And that is just to name a few! 

Here are the few pics/video I did take:


In the car driving to Dearborn, my goal was to be able to ride in the front seat the entire 2hr ride....that lasted all of 45min.  Oh well, Brie and I both took a little mini nap at least in the back seat (I had worked the night before).

Briana loved all the attention.  I always love going to my parents house and finding all our old toys for her to play with.  I got out all the baby doll stuff this time.  She didn't care much about the baby dolls, but loved the bucket of all the little bottles, spoons, stroller to play with.