This year Thanksgiving was great. It was different not being with our families, but it was also so wonderful to spend it with other families who are just like us. We spent it with 4 other couples, all of who are in law school as well and have young kids. It made it less stressful on all of us women not to have to make the whole Thanksgiving dinner, and it was great having other kids around to entertain each other so us adults could have a somewhat peaceful dinner. The food was delicious and the company was great. After dinner the guys went into the other room and talked while us women stayed in the kitchen and talked. It was so nice to be able to talk to other mom's/wives who know exactly what I am going through and could give me some advice about the next couple of years. The other wives were wives of 2nd or 3rd year law students so they had great advice for the next couple of weeks while finals are approaching. We feel so blessed to have been able to make good friends here and to share Thanksgiving with them. Having people like them in our lives has made moving here a good experience and it has made being away from our families bearable.
Sunday we decided to have our own family Thanksgiving. Dan cooked the turkey.... yes, you did hear me right... DAN COOKED THE TURKEY! And I did the rest of the dinner. It actually was not nearly as hard as I thought it was going to be! We feel really good now that we have actually done an entire Thanksgiving by ourselves. It was really good and afterwards we decorated our Christmas tree. It was mostly me putting the ornaments on while Jaxon took the ones on the bottom off and ran around and Dan chased him haha... so basically our tree only has ornaments on the top half. :) But overall this year Thanksgiving was a huge success and we are so grateful for everyone in our lives. We truly feel soooo blessed and we know that we would not be where we are today if it were not for the Lord. We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and we hope everyone has a great holiday season getting ready for Christmas and the New Year!
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| The Finished Turkey |
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| Jaxon wanting to eat the Turkey |
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| Our entire meal. I had to push everything to one end of the table because Jaxon was already in his chair and wanted to grab everything! |
Good work on cooking your own thanksgiving! Glad to hear you had an enjoyable holiday.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving!! Looks like you had a good one and way to go to Dan to make the turkey! Lets get together in christmas time!
ReplyDeleteYou guys will have the time of your life being your own family unit. Way to start your own traditions and keep enjoying them. I'm so glad you have friends that have walked the path before you and can give you advice. Before you know it Dan will be 3 year law. Miss you and it looks like Brandi would even approve the meal. Good job! Love ya, Marcy
ReplyDeleteYUMMY! We should cook thanksgiving together next time!! That looks great!!
ReplyDeleteWe are putting our tree up tonight and decorations tomorrow! I'm so excited.
I'm so glad you have great friends to spend the holidays with. I wish we were closer so we could spend the holidays with you too!