Thanksgiving 2010

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving that started in Wichita on Thursday with dinner at my mom's. My brother Tony and his wife, Lindsay were there and we just ate ourselves into our first food coma. It was a wonderfully lazy day, with football, naps and neverending food. We spent the evening at my Aunt Janet's house spending time with my dad's family including my grandparents that drive in from Arkansas every holiday. Luckily they were eating the next day so we weren't tempted by anymore food. After our visit we went home to pack for the plane ride to Indiana the next day.

We had wonderful weather for our trip and landed around 6:00 Friday evening. As always, we enjoyed a great dinner, great wine and great conversation throughout the evening. The next day started with going to the gym (what?!? who's idea was that...Becky). We all survived and maybe forced down a little more food because of it, at least I did. The preparation for lunch continued and around 11:00 the family (Sally's side) started to arrive. It was a fun time of catching up and watching the cousins wrestle around. The food was awesome and again, we ate ourselves into a food coma. It was another day of eating, conversation and more eating.

The next morning we went to church where the whole family went up to light the advent candle (I didn't burn the church down, whew!). It was a wonderful holiday and we are always sad to leave. Luckily this time we are only three weeks away from seeing everyone again, yay Christmas!

Catch up...

Okay, I know it's been a while, but I am going to try and catch you up on what Andrew and I have been up to. This is basically middle of October to middle of November, not to Thanksgiving yet. Thanks for being patient and continuing to check the site (Sally :-)).

We went to Iowa to see my cousin's little girl, Callie, and had a wonderful time. While we were there we were lucky enough to go to an Iowa vs. Wisconsin game. The tailgating was a new experience for us and the "walking tacos" were yummy! It was a short stay, but full of lots of fun! This is a precious picture of Callie looking bright eyed at the camera sitting on her mom's lap.

One Saturday evening we ventured to the west side to take in Annie's, my little sister's, basketball game. She did a great job guarding and is really aggressive when it comes to getting the ball. We thought we were only staying for one game, but had so much fun we decided to stay for both games. My dad is her coach and he did a great job throughout the game of encouraging the girls to keep trying when they missed a shot, or messed up on a play. It was a lot of fun to watch!

Mid-November we journeyed to Dallas, TX to drop off Ava (Andrew's mistress, I mean glider) to have some more work done on her over the Winter. While we were there we stayed with our friends Nicole and Patrick Grafton, who always show us a good time. They live in a fabulous little area with wonderful shopping and great restaurants. We had a relaxing Saturday with shopping, eating, watching football (go OSU!) and playing with hair, the girls not the boys. It was a lot of fun!

We had to return a little earlier than we wanted to from Dallas because I invited my students to join me at a Youth Symphony Orchestra concert that afternoon (before we planned the trip). It was an amazing concert. Students from 4th grade up to Seniors from the Wichita area were playing and the orchestras were phenomonal. Unfortunately, only three of my students were there, but hey, maybe in one of those three some musical interest sparked and that's all I can hope for. Later that evening some friends had invited us to hear Leo Kottke play at the Mary Jane Teall theater. He is an incredible guitarist and it was another wonderful evening with friends. Needless to say, it was a busy day.

Look for more to come...