HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Yeah, yeah, I know it was last week. But I was so busy telling you about trees on Friday, that I didn't get to tell you about our Thanksgiving - other than what I mentioned briefly yesterday.

Ryan had Thanksgiving off this year {always grateful when he can have a holiday at home with me because when you work in health care, that is not a given}, and we had plans to start our festivities at my parents' house with my side of the family, and then we were going to travel to his grandma's house to spend some time with his dad's side of the family.

So we got up, got ready, and began making our contribution to the meal: stuffing/dressing.

It was while we were making this, that we got texts from my sister and her husband, saying their commute was NOT going well. They were traveling up from the Indianapolis area and had hit an area with black ice and slide-offs everywhere. She said they felt like they needed to go back home because it wasn't safe to continue. So sad!!

So we got in the car and headed to Mom and Dad's, with a lotta stuffing for not a lotta people. {And mourning the loss of the broccoli salad that was going back to Julie's house with her.}

Mom had a beautiful table set, and so much food. Oh. My. Word. The food.

I wanted this whole plate for myself, but there's that mean rule about sharing on Thanksgiving. Blah blah blah.

Ryan wanted the beets. TOTAL LIE. We hate beets.

We ate...and ate..and ate some more. So much good food.

After lunch, Mom gave us our anniversary present, and we had fun watching her try to use the fancy pants camera to take our picture.

We FaceTimed both my sisters, since neither could join us.

And the family photo with those who could make it {and the pilgrim representation of those who had to go back home}:

We stayed and talked and had a great time - but we didn't end up making it to Ryan's Grandma's house, so we felt bad about that!

One food coma later...we had another Thanksgiving in Shafferland history!