Thanksgiving Break

We have been waiting for weeks for Thanksgiving! I'm sure that everyone has. It's always nice to have a little time off to relax with your family. The problem is that usually you don't end up relaxing. But at any rate, it's nice to be with family.

This year, we decided to bring my sister, Stephanie, to our home for Thanksgiving. She goes to college in Philadelphia, and for the last two years in a row, she has had to spend Thanksgiving alone. We decided it would be a fun adventure for our family to retrieve her from her scholarly surroundings and bring her to a more relaxing environment, free from the hustle and bustle of big city living.

Our trip started out great:

Here is the happy driver! This picture was taken about two miles into our journey (hence, the happy face).

We saw this lovely autmobile (in Hagerstown, about five miles from our house). That's sure to make you smile!

And, our boys are happy because they are eating McDonald's!

All was well and good until we reached this sign. Stinking Delaware!

This sign is a sight that is sure to make anyone unhappy! Five dollars? And that wasn't the only toll that we had to pay!

And then we spent the next two-and-a-half hours looking at this. Yep, it took us two-and-a-half hours to go eleven miles. So, our trip turned just a little bit sour. A three hour drive turned into a six hour drive. Fun FUN for everyone!

But the boys were too excited to care! Aunt Stephanie is here! They spent the entire car ride home talking her ear off (mostly about Blue's Clues) and made her draw a thousand pictures for them. She even brought them new notebooks and crayons. This picture pretty much sums up how Aunt Stephanie spent her Thanksgiving break. Hopefully she didn't mind too much, because she is forever a hero in her nephews' eyes.

The Sci-Fi nerds spent the entire break talking about comic books and movies that I have never heard of.





Aunt Stephanie and her homeboys.



And the beautiful feast that I prepared. My house may not be unpacked yet, but at least I dug out my china so we could dine in style!






Friday was spent decorating the Christmas trees. This is the grown-up tree (which explains why the grown-ups are standing next to it).





We may have had too much sparkling cider...




Andrew with the kiddie tree. I swear, this is the cutest face I have ever seen!

And this one is pretty darn cute too!

And so our Thanksgiving break came to a close with a trip back to Philadelphia, and hours more spent in Delaware. Not exactly a relaxing trip, but like I said before, it's nice to be with family. And what's more important than family?