This past Saturday we celebrated Kate’s 24th birthday! All of us had a wonderful time. It was great being able to celebrate with such special friends.

Our original plan was to have an adult’s night out…getting sitters for the babies. But, in the end our original plan looked like it wasn’t going to work out when Bradley and Alison were unable to find a sitter. So, we made a change. We ended up having a family night, and honestly, I believe it was more fun than it would have been had we done anything different.

Dan had to work until 5, so the rest of us decided to all ride together in the Tahoe. Talk about a sight! All 3 babies were lined up on the second row of seats safely in their carseats. You will notice from the pictures that the third row had to take care of the fussy babies. At one point, Bradley was feeding 2 babies at the same time. Hilarious!

Brittain took a few minutes to show off her new outfit before everyone arrived:

Brittain was slightly upset when we left. Robert was just stunned…perhaps it was because he was surrounded by two such beautiful women:

La Parrilla’s in McDonough:

The restaurant wore the babies out, so the ride home was quite a bit more peaceful:

There’s no explanation necessary for these. She’s just so sweet.

Spending time with Uncle Doug. The strange look on her face comes from the fact that she hardly recognizes him 20 lbs. lighter and with a full beard!

Helping Great Grama move:

Playing with Daddy:

We were asked this year to play the Holy Family at the Hanging of the Greens service. It was such an honor and a moving experience. I cried the entire way down the aisle.

I love the holidays…but for different reasons than I used to. I can remember the anticipation leading up to Christmas. Thanksgiving really just meant we were that much closer to the Christmas holiday…and getting presents.

Things are different now. Now, I look forward to the holidays because of family. It’s a time when we can all be together, leaving behind the stresses of work and anything else going on in our lives that we want to forget for one day. We can enjoy each other’s company, laugh at old times, and look forward to great things for the future.

This Thanksgiving was especially memorable. Dan and I were talking the other day and remembered that we found out we were pregnant right before this day last year. Now, here we are a year later and Brittain is here with us. I can’t remember what life was like without her.
We have so much to be thankful for.

Thanksgiving started at Gramy and Papa’s. Brittain loves her Papa’s lap…it’s where she prefers to sit while she’s there:

The family shot. (I should mention that we took Gramy and Great Grama away from moving. They still looked great despite their exhaustion.)

Next stop was Mimi and Duke’s:

The celebration continued on Friday with a visit from Susan Thornhill and daughter-in-law Brandi Thornhill:

Then it was back to Mimi and Duke’s for leftovers:

After lunch, Brittain, Aunt CC, Mimi and I went shopping around Griffin. Brittain loved the shopping, especially since she was carried around by her Aunt CC in the Jeep carrier. By the end of the day, she was tired so she requested a relaxing bath before she went to bed.

The day ended with a special goodbye from Aunt CC. It was so sweet…I called Cecilia when we got home from shopping and told her that she should come by before heading to Atlanta. She thought she would, but then decided not to when she ended up getting away later than she hoped. About a half hour later I hear her come in the house. She said she had gotten to downtown Griffin and just couldn’t stand it…she had to come back and say another goodbye to her favorite neice.

She got PLENTY of goodbye kisses in: