Thanksgiving Break

Andy and I spent our Thanksgiving Break camping in San Marcos this year, and we invited his parents to camp with us.  Sometimes I think if it weren't for us, they would never use their camper.  (lol)  The drive was pretty long, especially since we stop to take breaks.  But I believe part of camping is the drive to campground, so we try to make it fun and just take our time.  Once Maddie settled down, the trip was much more bearable.  As you can see below, she found comfort in sleeping on Andy.

On Thanksgiving day we drove to Shiner to celebrate with my family.  Unfortunately my brother was with his girlfriend's family, but we definitely enjoyed the company of my mom, step-dad, grandparents, and my mom/step-dad's foreign exchange student Jaime.  We ate an absolutely scrumptious meal of turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, corn, mashed potatoes, pecan pie, chocolate sheet cake, banana pudding and much more.  My mom is an incredible cook!  Andy's mom had never been to Shiner and his dad had been only once a long time ago.  So he gave them a tour of my little but famous hometown.  I think the Green Dickson Park was their favorite.  Actually when I moved from Shiner to College Station and now to Cleveland/Tarkington, I didn't realize that some towns didn't have nice parks like the one in Shiner and the several in College Station.  Supposedly Cleveland is in the process of building a park, so we'll see if we're here long enough to see it.

My mom and I

My mom, me, and Jaime

My mom, me, and Andy's mom

This was the second or third picture
and he was ready to be done.  Still cute!

On Friday I finished making my Christmas cards.  Well, I made only 20 and the rest are store bought cards.  I still need to address them and get stamps.  I hope to get them done sometime this week and for sure next weekend.  You can't go to San Marcos without shopping at the Outlet Mall.  Andy's mom and I decided to wait until later in the afternoon to do some Black Friday shopping.  I had a pretty successful trip.  I didn't do any Christmas shopping, just shopping for anything that I liked or Andy would like.  I spent about $150 and got TONS of stuff for us.  Definitely like the Outlet Mall!

On our way to do a little shopping!

We were going to put up the Christmas tree and decorations tonight, but we decided to watch the A&M football game instead.  And of course, I'm blogging too. :)  The goal tomorrow is to get the tree up.  I love it when our house is decorated for Christmas!