Usually for Thanksgiving we don't do a whole lot. We've been black Friday shoppers since I started dating Tyler. So normally we would go to Tyler's parents around 1:00 to eat Thanksgiving dinner and go through all of the ads and then go home nap and then meet up to go shopping. Well this year things were a little different.
We didn't really have any plans for Thanksgiving and Tyler's family wasn't doing any Black Friday shopping since their kids are basically all grown up now. So I decided since this is the first year of us being parents that we would start something new and have Thanksgiving at our house.
We had just our immediate family over and since it was kind of last minute only my mom was able to make it. My brother and his girlfriend had other plans and my grandmother also had other plans. Tyler's parents and sister and her boyfriend came so it was just us. Which was still nice.
My tree always goes up before Thanksgiving and always comes down before New Years (I acutally used to wait until after New Years, but a few years ago decided its nicer to start the New Year with a nice clean home) This year I waited a little longer than normal to put it up, but it was still up before Thanksgiving. I get a real tree and like to have them up and look at them and take in the smell and memories of Christmas for as long as possible. It is my favorite!
So my mom came over around 10-11 to help me cook and then Tyler's mom came and brought the stuff that she cooked and helped us finish everything. We ate around 1:30-2 and sat around and talked for a bit.
I had a little bit of time before heading out black Friday shopping which my mom joined me on so that Tyler could stay home with Lakelyn. I didn't get to nap, but was able to look through the ads and make my list before leaving! I got home by midnight went to bed and then went back out on the actual Friday after Thanksgiving with Tyler's mom around 6:30 and this time Lakelyn got to go :)
Over all it was a fun time and something to look forward to for years to come! Sadly, that is the only picture I got of Thanksgiving.
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