i am so stuffed! Thank goodness I've been wroking out daily or i would be in serious trouble! We got to see all the grandparents and great grandparents this weekend already! We did a good job! Thursday we did Golden Corall with the Bush/Kandray family and my mom came too. It was poined out by Josh that the largest people in Ohio congregate there. I laughed but when we got there it was true!!! Tyler ate a basket of bread. Literally. He ate three of those huge rolls, about a bite of all the thanksgiving food, and some manderine oranges and candy corns. Grace had her first ever mashed potatoes. I thought at the time that they were just mashed up potatoes, it did not even occur to me until we were changing some interesting diapers that night that it also probably had some sort of cream and butter in it as well as salt! Oops! We went back to the Kandray and Bush houses and then home to pack for the traveling part of the weekend. Friday we got up and attempted to get to my dad's early- with a two hour trip this means before noon.... We had to stop at Walmart for diapers and it was 9:00. The place was deserted! I figure all the crazy people were already home in bed by then! :) Techincally I can say that I did some shopping on "black friday". We had spagetti for lunch with my dad and he took Tyler to the beach. (He lives on Lake Erie) Tyler is a smart boy. He knows that most of the fun in going to the beach is getting your feet wet. He convinced my dad of this and oh how I wish I'd have seen the look on his face when the water was 30 degrees!!! We had prime rib for supper. IT WAS SO GOOD!!! We went to my grandma's afterwards for desert but when we got there they had not eaten yet! You'll not be surprised to know that Tyler had a plate! I had a bite of turkey and some potatoes and a roll. All my favorites. ;) "If it's white it's right!" That's my moto!! We also had my grandma's home-made German Chocolate cake to celebrate my mom's birthday. It was nice to all get to be together. My grandparents, my mom, the four of us, my aunt toots, uncle Steward and aunt Bonni, Lauren, Michaela, Agust (grandpa's brother) and Galdys, and in addition we had Pastor Kelly and Manus (thier neighbor). Full house! We stayed at my mom's and rested this morning (Tyler ate two breakfasts) and then went to see my other grandma (dad's side). We had pizza (Tyler had THREE pieces) and celebrated Christopher's 17th birthday (Tyler had cake too!!). How fun to have pizza Thanksgiving weekend!!! :) Now we're home, the tree is up and Gary's trying to figure out how many lights we have that work. I was thinking on the way home how nice it is to have people provide us so many meals over the holidays! Saves me having to cook and the dishes too! Most of all since Tyler eats like his father it gives people a chance to see how it really is! I swear people think we don't feed him! Tonight when the kids go to bed I imagine we'll watch A Christmas Story. Actually, Gary has a soccer game at 9 so I'll probably watch it alone. Imagine... I might get to hear all the lines without all the men in the family laughing in my ear! Happy Thanksgiving!!! PS Actually the game is at 7 so we're all going! Yippeee!!!!