Thanksgiving 2011

My family and I spent Thanksgiving this year at my brother's house in Rockwall. With my dad and brother's work schedules we never know until the last minute if they will have holidays off and so we were so thankful this year that they both had Thanksgiving off. My brother-in-laws family lives in the Dallas area and so it just made more since for us all to meet in Rockwall for Thanksgiving. While we were all together we took some family pictures in a field beside Glenn's house. It was muddy and cold but so worth it!!! My sister took the photos and set up her camera on a tripod to take a whole group one. I love how they turned out! You know I am a picture person and family photos are something I treasure!!!

This is my favorite!

Love my parents and this picture so much!!

I love this one with Stephanie looking up at Ross laughing!

I took this one :)

I don't know if it is just my family but the guys are not big on photo taking so it was only a matter of time until they had had enough and started goofing off while we were trying to take their photo. I actually love all the photos of them playing around...they are so funny!

Boys will be boys!

While we were together we went out to eat and celebrated my mom's birthday early. We went to this really great Japanese Steak House and Sushi Bar called Kyoto's. I finally convinced my mom to try sushi and she really liked it...I have been telling her she would :)

Mom and I were in charge of cooking the whole Thanksgiving meal and we both enjoyed doing it. I love everything  about Thanksgiving...the colors, the time of year, the meaning of it, and especially the food!!

After Thanksgiving Glenn had to go back to work and so mom and I decided we would put up his Christmas tree for him. We went to buy ornaments for the tree and I saw the clear ones and had an idea!

We decided to do a golf themed tree and surprise him! My brother LOVES golf and we figured this will probably be the only time in his life he will be able to have a golf themed tree (I can't imagine his future wife would want one :)

We didn't have a tree topper so a golf hat would do!

My mom added the golf shoes and golf balls for a special touch!

I was proud of our golf tree and Glenn loved it!



It was so good to see my family especially since I moved and don't get to see my parents as often as I use to! It was a wonderful Thanksgiving! There is so much to be thankful for and I am very, very grateful for all the blessings in my life!