Thanksgiving in Minnesota

As we've done for the past seven years, I spent Thanksgiving in Minnesota, while Jeff was with his family on the East Coast. Minnesota was really good - a bit cold, but some pretty holiday snow!

This was the first Thanksgiving in my parents' new house. Everything was really nice - we had lunch at my parent's house with the whole family - Mom, Dad, Brian, Emily, Katie, and Tom, and we had Uncle David, Aunt Natalie, Drew, MacKenzie, Mamie, and Grandma John.

My mom did pretty much all of the cooking. I meant to help, but I think I mostly just sat at the counter chatting while she prepared things. But I guess that system worked, because the food was all great!

After lunch we were all really full, so we hung out downstairs and all watched football, read ads for black Friday deals, and took naps. When we weren't completely full anymore, we had pie and ice cream.

The relatives and Brian and Emily all left around 3 or 4pm, and then after spending a little bit of time flipping through wedding magazines, we decided we should go see a movie. So, my mom, dad, and I went and saw Harry Potter. (Katie and Tom decided to stay home.) The movie was really good - as all of the Harry Potter movies have been. I'm really excited for the last one!

Thanksgiving

I spent Thanksgiving weekend in Minnesota, and it was tons of fun! My aunt and uncle and cousins came over for Thanksgiving dinner, and we played games and watched football.

I also had the chance to hang out with my brother and his wife - Emily hosted a cookie-bake party, which was a ton of fun. Plus, now I have about 100 cookies at my house. :)

I had the chance to hang out with Annette and have a mini-Audrey Hepburn movie marathon. We watched 'Roman Holiday' and 'How to Steal a Million' - both awesome movies worthy of their own post.

I hung out with Paul Colling a couple of times - enjoyed the Friday-night happy hour at TGI Fridays, which includes $3 drafts and half-price appetizers. Not bad. I also started Paul on Battlestar Galactica, which somehow he has never seen! We got through the mini-series and two episodes of season one, but he's still got a ways to go.

As always, the weekend went by extremely quickly, but luckily Christmas break is coming soon - I'll be back in Minnesota three weeks from today!