A Whilrwind Thanksgiving!

On Wednesday last week at 4:30 we had our Thanksgiving plans all set: Thursday lunch with some friends who invited us over to eat with their family. Thursday afternoon shopping for a new game to play this weekend. Friday maybe some early morning shopping - getting up at 5 or so. Friday afternoon getting out some Christmas stuff and Bria's piano lesson. Saturday we were going to go see "Old Dogs" and Sunday would have been church and finishing up with Christmas decorating...... a fairly typical Thanksgiving at home for us and we love it.



By 4:45 our plans had changed entirely! The couple who invited us over for lunch on Thursday had a child sick with the flu, so that was cancelled. So we were kind of moping around and thinking about what to do for our Thanksgiving meal instead. 5 minutes after that.... we were packing to head to Iowa! We decided to head on down there this year instead.



So we got up at 3:15 Thursday morning and made it to Alcester, SD to spend the day with Jon's parents and grandmas. By about 8:00 Thursday night we were in Harlan where I met up with Tabbi. After getting Emmy settled into bed I headed over to Tabbi's so that we could meet up with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law to do all night shopping in Omaha. We made it to ToysRUs at 11:30 and we finally finished shopping at about 9:00 Saturday morning. Then it was back to Logan so Jon could pick me up and bring me back to Harlan.... just in time for the girls to get a ride in the combine, then showers, lunch and around 2:00 I was able to sneak in a couple of hours of sleep. We hung out for the rest of the night and Megan and Greg showed up in time for dinner. So after being awake since 3:15 Thursday morning, I finally made it to bed at 10:15 Friday night..... so in a 43 hour stretch of time I managed to sleep for about 2 hours...... it was fun though!


Saturday was Thanksgiving with my family and then we drove back home on Sunday. So it was a whirlwind of a trip, but it was a fun change for us for Thanksgiving!
Oh, and when we got to Harlan, Emmy tried to break Aunt Megan's nose..... she was so excited about the birthday present from Megan and Greg that she charged Megan for a giant hug and managed to get her nose in there instead.... after a trip to the E.R. (just to make sure) Megan recovered without a break and even without black eyes! Sorry Megan!