Jed had an abundance of PTO to use up by the end of this year so we were blessed to have our favorite guy around for the whole week of Thanksgiving. We headed up to Minnesota on Tuesday to have an extra long holiday weekend with my family.
Packed in and ready to roll. First we did some sleeping...
Then some playing. Pipe cleaners make great car activities!
When we're at my parent's house, Lainey spends a lot of time in this chair and most of the time she's got at least one baby in tow. Glad Mom held on to so many of Emily's babies!
We went to my Grandma Carey's one morning to visit and say hello. Wyatt left no square inch uncovered of course and Lainey enjoyed some story time with Grandma!
My parents were in charge of desserts for Thanksgiving so I offered to make the apple pie! It was excellent if I do say so myself!
Thanksgiving Day! We had a great time at my Grandma's with some of my mom's family for dinner.
Wyatt thoroughly enjoyed himself.
Lainey had a great time too. You can see her eyeing my cousin's oldest girl Isabel (far right) ... she followed her around like a shadow all afternoon and called her "Belle" like the princess and has talked about her often since that day. Obviously we need to make more trips up there for those two to spend more time together!
Grandma always gets the great grandkids Christmas ornaments on Thanksgiving Day. I have a huge collection of ornaments myself... probably 24 or 25 (?) from when I was one of "the kids!"
A few of the cousins kids - the great grand crew!
The rest of the holiday weekend was spent playing and enjoying our time together. Our kids did great with the alternative sleeping arrangements and loved their time with their Ma and Papa.
We headed back up north two weeks later because my Dad was given Vikings tickets from his work and offered to take Jed and I with for so we could enjoy our first NFL football game. My mom offered graciously to give up the 4th ticket to stay at home and watch the kids. Even though Jed is a huge Packer fan (read: anti Vikings) he agreed to go, especially after we heard the tickets were in the lower level in row 10!
We packed a lot of fun into the quick weekend.
Coloring!
Making Christmas goodies!
Sprinkling sprinkles every where... so many sprinkles.
Too sweet to not take a picture!
Sunday came (game day!) and my dad had been suffering from a cold all week. He decided he just wasn't feeling well enough to go to the game so Jed and I went by ourselves. We had two extra tickets and no one to take to the game with us. We thought about selling the tickets but it just didn't seem right since they were free to us. As we headed to the game, I said it would be so fun if we could find a dad and his son and give them our extra tickets since they were such great seats. We stopped at Caribou on our way downtown and walked in and stood in line behind a dad and his probably 9 or 10 year old son... ALL decked out in Vikings gear. I just knew they were probably heading to the game so we struck up a conversation. They were indeed going to the Vikings game so we offered them our extra row 10 tickets. Both of their eyes got really big and they graciously accepted... they were so excited. It was the little boy's first Vikings game and they were SO pumped. It was awesome to bless them with those extra tickets. They had a great time and that little dude watched every single minute of that game.
We had a great time ourselves. It's fun to do anything just the two of us but especially to do something like this... Jed loves football, I like the Vikings, and you can't really go wrong with seats in row 10. Plus, it was a big Vikings win so it was a fun game to watch and the Vikings are getting a new stadium so it was one of the last games in the Dome!
It was a busy few weeks packing in two trips to Minnesota amidst all of the holiday happenings. Thankful our kids were great travelers, good sleepers and that we got to spend lots of time with family!
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