Thanksgiving

We have quite a lot to be thankful for this year, and we had quite the celebration this holiday. Brian gave the sermon at church on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. After the Thursday morning service we left Macomb and headed to Chicago. It was an uneventful trip considering the dire weather predictions of the previous days and thankfully there was really not a lot of congestion on the roads. We arrived in Chicago around 3:30 and were able to celebrate with my parents, Katie, Michael, Stephanie (Mike's girlfriend), and Nana. We even got a visit from Tony. As always the food and old fashions were great. We went Christmas shopping with all the other crazy people on black Friday and had our traditional after Thanksgiving meals of leftover turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sandwiches for lunch and Lou Malnati's pizza for dinner. We had a baby shower on Saturday and that was awesome. I will post more on that later. It was simply great to be with family over the weekend. I am glad we have a few pictures to remember the weekend. The one at top is of Brian the instigator and his favorite prey, My Mom. He always seems to be able to get her going. The one at the bottom right is of my Dad washing dishes after dinner. I felt his helpfulness need be commemorated. Love you guys!