and so this is thanksmas

Posted in Outdoors+Sports, Us on Nov 28, 2010

it so happened that this year it worked out that neither jeremy nor i would be home for christmas. mine was b/c lillis wants to alternate years, so we’re going with her family to park city for christmas. that’s all fine and well, but my mom had gone 36 straight years with her children home at christmas. so, i decided we would create a new mega-holiday. we would celebrate thanksgiving on thursday, pray that God proved he hated cam newton as much as we did on friday, and then celebrate the first thanksmas on saturday. friday didn’t work out quite like we’d planned, but at least saturday was nice. : )

a few pics from the game are below. thanks again to jason for pulling me seats for 3 of the big games this year….penn state, florida and auburn.

here mcelroy completes a pass. that lets you know that this picture is from the 1st half.

here we have a couple of touchdowns…..obviously also first half.

we left right after that. i’m not sure how the game turned out. i’m going to assume we won.

we put up all the christmas decorations…..

…..and then on saturday morning, the very first thanksmas was born. here mom reads the story from luke about how the pilgrims found jesus laying in a manger

lillis couldn’t have been any more excited if it had been christmas.

the tree looked lovely

i obviously trend towards less excitement than lil

my mom had wanted to get a few shots of the family in for her christmas card, so we squeezed these in just before jeremy and jessica had to take off for the airport.

mama, looks good in the houndstooth, holding the pigskin.

i gotta say, i wasn’t quite ready for christmas yet, but thanksmas was good. i think if had started listening to some christmas music, or just watched elf, or national lampoons a week or two earlier, i’d have been full of thanksmas cheer. all in all, though, i’m pleased with the results.

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