Thanksgiving

Ava celebrated her first Thanksgiving and despite all of the yummy food that we prepared, she is still too young to enjoy any of it so she will have to wait until next year to experience her first Thanksgiving meal.  Our Thanksgiving week started off with a visit from my cousin Mary who was able to meet Ava for the first time.  We had a great visit and it is so nice to see family that you do not get to see on a regular basis.
This year I had decided to host our Thanksgiving meal and thankfully my mother came down the day before and prepared most of the food.  Last year we really enjoyed frying our turkey so we had wanted to do this again this year but my mother was not too excited about this idea.  We ended up with two turkeys so my mother was able to roast one and then Travis fried the other one.  Before my mother left on Sunday, she said that she really enjoyed the fried turkey and that it was more juicier and flavorful than her roasted turkey.  We had a nice Thanksgiving Day and was happy to be able to spend time with some of our family members but wish that we could have celebrated it with our entire family.
The rest of the weekend was spent with decorating for Christmas and my mother doing DIY projects around our house.  I cannot believe that it is Christmas time and I am looking forward to spending our first Christmas with Ava.