Thanksgiving 2012

It was another memorable Thanksgiving for the books! We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Tyler this year!  We'll start with one of my favorite pictures I took.  Might even have to get it framed for myself.  This is a picture of the steps leading up my childhood home. This is the house I was brought home from the hospital to and it has a LOT of memories attached to it.  I love that I captured fall and the worness of the number and steps.  It's iconic of what represents my memories.

 

 I have officially turned into someone that until recently I made fun of.  I ran my first timed 5K on Thanksgiving morning.  My hubbie, sister and sister in law joined me.  It was wonderful and I'm hooked!  I don't love running, but I love the effects of it, so I will continue to run 5K's as motivation to keep on running!  Here's me and Shawn before the race.

Here's Laura and Shawnette finishing!  So proud of Shawnette who worked HARD to do a couch to 5K on a treadmill in the garage while trying to balance being a new mommy too!  Keep it up girl!  And thanks also to my sister who kept Shawnette company on the 3.2 miles of course!

 

 Here's me sprinting in my fastest white girl sprint to the finish!  And just to be specific...my time was actually 33min 45ish seconds...there was about 15-20 seconds of walking at the start because it was so crowded that I couldn't run until it started to spread out a little!

 

After showering, we headed to my Memaw's for our yearly gathering.  It was a wonderful and relaxed day.  The kids did wonderful and the food was great!  Here's all the cousins on my side....it's amazing that the picture was even this good....goodness gracious, it's hard to get a picture of a lot of kids!

Doing the usual....sitting under the carport talking away.  I think it's funny that both my mom and I were talking and using our hands at the same time.

 

 I love this boy.

 

The matriarch and her son and grand-son-in-law.

Poppy and Levi picking up pecans and eating them.

 

I taught Elle to play Mary Had a Little Lamb.  This is the first time I've seen her get super frustrated about something and instead of giving up, keep trying until she got it.  I was so unbelievably proud of her for sticking with it!

 

We headed back over to Barbara's later in the afternoon and spent lots of good time with Emily's family and kids.  My girls absolutely LOVE these girls and I'm so thankful to Emily and Joey for providing so many wonderful lifelong friends for my kids.

A random tree in Tyler that I just had to stop and get a picture of.  I think Tyler's trees were unusually colorful this year.  I've never seen it like this before.  It was amazing everywhere we looked.