The NaBloPoMo Finish Line

Good lord, I actually did it.

Seven years of blogging and this is (by far) my longest blogging steak.  34 days IN A ROW.  And not that many of them were cop-out, just a picture and a few words kinda posts.  They are mostly all LEGITIMATE blog posts.  

I am impressed.  With myself.  Which, now that I think about it, is rather self centered, but who cares.  *Pats self on back*

What is actually sort of interesting about this entire process is that I worried in the first week that I had made a mistake and this might make me dislike blogging, but exactly the opposite happened.  As the month moved forward I realized more and more how much I miss blogging.  And not just posting pictures (ignore my last two posts) but REALLY blogging.  Talking about thoughts and feeeeeelings and just everyday events.  Things that I have done less and less over the last year or two.

In a lot of ways, being forced (by freely signing up) to blog daily reminded me that I love to blog.  And that is a very good thing.

Not that I am going to keep going with the daily deal... that would be insane.  But I do plan to blog better.  To really think about topics to post and not just resort to the old standby picture post.  We will see how it turns out.  But for now, I am taking tomorrow off.  See you in a couple of days.



 

Pictures from Thanksgiving

So I usually like taking pictures. (What??  You know that?  Right)  But actually kept my camera pretty much tucked away for our Wednesday night family meal.  I did break it out at the end, to get a couple of quick pictures of Henry and Cici, but really the night felt more complete with us just talking and spending time together and not attempting to document every second.  Here are a couple of the pictures I snapped at the end:


They weren't really interested in sitting still for a picture... and I am not sure there was any time in the night this would have gone better anyway, so maybe it was better I didn't try.

I mean, unless it's a silly picture.  They are always up for silly pictures


We also took this one of our little family, which  I adore

And this one of Boo's family,which cracks me up.

Now at my Father in Laws, it was a different story.  It's like I can see Nick's deep sigh he tries to hold in when I pull out the camera... but LIFE MUST BE DOCUMENTED!


We made several attempts at a cousin shot... and got a couple of pretty good ones of the three boys

seriously... with the sweetness

And then with this one of Henry and Nieem, which I will love until the end of time. 


Chris and Nicole

This one also cracks me up

Me and Candice

Before the feast

My heart might explode from how sweet he is here

So good of Candice, so silly of Henry

family

The classic American family.. board games, wine and Black Friday ads...

All in all, it was a good Thanksgiving. Hard at times, but very nice at times too.  We love our family, and love being together.  We are forever thankful they are part of our lives.

**We very much missed Nana and Grandpa this year.  I don't think I have mentioned it on here yet, but they actually moved to Florida several weeks ago.  A life of fun in the sun for them!  But we are a little selfish so we are sad they are gone, especially during the holidays.   Looking forward to our next visit, and our first trip to the BEACH to see their new place :)
 

Thankful

So much to be Thankful for.

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