I LOVE the holiday season! The weather is cooling off after a long, HOT summer. Hubby has done a fantastic job decorating the house, again! He’s so good at making our house look festive!
We headed to Oklahoma for Thanksgiving celebrations this year. Thinking that we would miss alot of the holiday traffic, we decided to leave Tuesday night, after Blaine’s basketball game. As we were coming up to the ramp to get on Highway 6, I began to question whether or not this was a good time to leave. As far as we could see to our left and to our right, was cars! The longest line of cars on a highway that I’ve ever seen!!! I couldn’t believe that all of these people were trying to get out of town on Tuesday night! We decided to brave the crowd and continued on. After moving 2 miles in 30 minutes, we realized, these people were going to the bonfire! Once we passed the exit for the bonfire, traffic was normal and we moved at a normal pace! For this, we were very THANKFUL!
Wednesday was a day of a quick trip to Lawton with Mom, cousins playing, and getting ready for Thanksgiving lunch.
Thursday, we enjoyed a wonderful lunch at Grandma Taylor’s (Great-Grandma to some of you), then we went to Elgin to visit the Landers’ family! We visited with Todd’s mom and oldest brother, Scott and two of his kids (the other two kids had already left). Later, we went to visit Keith and Cindy (second oldest brother), and their two daughters (we missed seeing the sons who were visiting other relatives).
Friday, Mom, Jenn, and I braved the Black Friday crowd! We left the house at 6:00am and set out to conquer mom’s shopping list! We hit several stores and found many great deals! We went to the mall for lunch (where I saw my long time friend, Christine and her family) and met up with my sister-in-law, Christy. We made purchases in a few more stores, then headed back to Cache. We got home at 4:30pm, I quickly showered and changed, then left with Todd and the boys to go watch Thunder play some basketball in OKC. That was so fun! (Thank you, Uncle Billy and Dad.) We all had a great time!
Saturday, we hung around the house, washed clothes and packed suitcases while watching OU shutout OSU 27-0! What a great ending to a crazy season! That evening, we headed to Sanger, TX to see Todd’s brother (just older than him) and family. We were able to see Stacy, Cathy, Chance and Alyssa. Bryce had already gone back to Norman for the OU game.
Stacy has two boys and a girl and we have two boys and a girl. When the kids were all younger, it was amazing to me at how much alike the kids personalities were (ie. our oldest and stacy’s oldest, etc.). Well, after not seeing them for a couple of years and spending just a short amount of time with them, things have not changed. They are very similiar still! Many aspects of their personalities are alike. This one freaked me out a little – Stacy’s oldest, Chance, and our oldest, B1, love gummy bears. Both like to put them in the freezer! So, Chance shared with my boys about the White Gummy Bear drink that you can order from Jamba Juice (even thought it’s not on the menu.)
On Sunday, we headed home. We really enjoyed all of our visits and it all seemed to go by so quickly! I am especially glad that Todd was able to see all of his brothers and that we were able to help Mom get almost every bit of her Christmas shopping done!
Now, we are home for 3 weeks before going back. We are hoping to see a few of our friends as well as family on our next trip.
Oh, and did I mention, that B1 will have his permit when we come back! Yeah! I know! It can’t be happening!!!
