Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! A little late!!

Chris, the good man that he is, did most of the cooking Thursday morning. We did the brining of the turkey thing this year and used a roaster oven. Both different than we had done before. Turned out really good! However, I ended up being nauseous and had a hard time keeping food down Wednesday night and Thursday. (Ok, actually quite a bit this week. You'd think at 30+ weeks along this would be a thing of the past!!) So I think I ate about two bites of the big meal. Caleb was acting strange all morning--just kind of laying around not wanting to do anything. He even grabbed the phone book and used it as a pillow. He took an early and long nap and didn't eat any of the big meal. Poor Chris, as it turned out, got to eat his a bit cold. So all in all, not exactly as planned, but what can you do?!?! It makes for good memories.

By that night, Caleb was feeling a little bit better. We decided to break out all our Christmas stuff and set up our tree and put up our lights. To be honest, we had hard time this year waiting until Thanksgiving! We were all excited to decorate!!

Caleb helping Chris put up the tree:



Here is Caleb helping with the decorating of the tree...we later redistributed everything, but he had a good old time hanging everything.



Caleb giddy to be putting the lights up outside:



What a big helper. The boy loves to climb:




Friday, Chris ended up having to work most of the day, even though it was supposed to be a day off. But that night we went downtown to the river parade. They have a big parade where all the boats are made into floats with Christmas lights and decorations and everyone in costumes and music etc. They also turn on all the lights along the Riverwalk which are really pretty! The night was made even better by getting to ride the BUS!! We decided we would ride the bus for the added adventure of it all. Caleb was just giddy to ride the bus and to see the boats and all the lights on the Riverwalk. We had a good time!

Chris and Caleb at the bus stop:



Krista and Caleb at the parade:



Not the best, picture...it was too dark to get good pictures! But this is one of the floats, and you can sort of see the lights hanging on the Riverwalk too.




Saturday we decided to hit Sea World. The weather was perfect!!!! All summer long Caleb begged to ride the Shamu rollercoaster, but he was just not quite tall enough. Well, since he's grown about 8 feet in the last couple months, he was finally tall enough! Ok, well he was more than tall enough, so technically he probably could have ridden it a little while ago. But he finally got to ride it! And Texas Splashdown, the log flume type ride that I didn't know he could have ridden a long time ago!! I was really surprised they let little kids ride that! The hill at the end is pretty big! Quite a few kids were crying by the end. Caleb was crying...because he didn't want to get off! He wanted more more!! He keeps talking about wanting to go back! I hope he is a roller coaster junkie like us!!!

Chris and Caleb waving on the log flume ride:



Waiting in line for the Shamu rollercoaster:



A bad picture of Chris and Caleb (but the only one my bad reflexes could get) on the rollercoaster:



Hangin with Shamu:



As always at holidays, we missed our families and friends that are far away, but did manage to have some fun being together here.

p.s. Do you think that if you drink a bunch of eggnog and then throw it up that you still get as many calories and fat from it?!? :)