Thankful for...Family

We had a wonderful day on Thanksgiving. We went to Mom's house for lunch with my sister Jen, her husband Mike, their daughters Grace, Faith & Emma and their son Daniel; my sister Becky and her husband Tim; and my mom's friend Pat came to visit her and Jamie. Jamie was able to eat some of the Thanksgiving goodies in bed, and Joshua ate off his new cute Thanksgiving plate sent to us from Grandma & Grandpa Ginder (thanks!). After lunch was finished we played some games before we headed to Mike & Bonnie's house for supper. There we saw Brian & Gayle & Grant, Alicia & Jordon, Hilary, Grandma & Grandpa Stoltzfus and the rest of Bonnie's family. That night, Joshua spent the night at Nonie & Poppy's. It was our first night apart since we brought him home from the hospital. I cried most of the night. Mike & Bonnie are great with Joshua, and I'm sure he would be good for them. Still, I missed him. He was overwhelmed with all the people and got cranky until the evening was over. They said after everyone left, though, he was happy and playing. Friday morning, Shawn & I got up early to go shopping, but there was very little advertised that we wanted or needed. So, we hit a couple stores and ended up spending a good chunk of the morning going out for breakfast just the two of us. We then went to Home Depot & Lowe's to pick out some finishes for our house like our doors & lighting, etc. We bought some items online, packed our things for the weekend and then headed up to Berks County to pick up our little Bean. We left Nonie & Poppy's house to head north to see Grandma & Grandpa Ginder. Joshua did well the first two hours of the trip, and cried the last two hours. Ugh! When we arrived, a delicious meal of chicken corn noodle soup, deviled eggs (which I'd been craving), bread & spice cake cupcakes were waiting for us. Joshua then motored around their house with the new "hungry hippo" toy they bought him. He also loved the new chicken dance elmo, and I think the new Christmas outfit is absolutely adorable. Thanks so much! We camped out in Aunt Erica's room on our air mattress, and in the morning we got to see most of their auction. Everything sold but the camper & house. Since the entire house was all but empty, Joshua enjoyed motoring around (with his toys) in this wide-open space. We went out to eat that night and left Sunday around lunchtime to come home. It was a nice time of seeing family, and we love our entire extended family. We were sad we missed seeing Aunt Missy & Uncle Kevin, my Dad who called me the morning of Thanksgiving, and Shawn's grandparents, etc. We are thankful for our entire family...