Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a pretty awesome Thanksgiving full of activity and full bellies. We spent the majority of the day with Chris at the fire station. The kids got to check out the fire engine. When we weren't in the kitchen prepping and cooking we played out side. We brought the kids bikes and the firefighters played soccer and football. Then we sat down to a moist and delicious traditional turkey dinner. Chris did a really great job on the turkey. At the beginning of the week we both sat down to watch Oprah (it rarely happens- seriously) But, Christina Ferrae was on with this turkey recipe. Well, it was very good. I do recommend it. However, use only a little of the drippings because the soy sauce makes the gravy pretty salty.

From the fire station we went to my aunt's house for an hour. Just in time for desert. And then to my grandma's for 20 minutes just to say hello. We didn't get in bed until about 10:50 pm. Late for my family, but they were troopers. I could do all this driving because they all were about 5-15 minutes from each other.
The next day we went to San Francisco via BART. We were greeted by this funky little guy when we got up to the City.

I had no plans for shopping because of the chaos of black Friday. I have never been to New York, but I can imagine what times square would be like. The streets of S.F. we full of people. Masses of people walking from store to store. Surely this had to have helped the economy a little bit, right? I did have to stop in one store of course. Anthropologie had the cutest holiday ornaments and sweaters... for a mere $180.00. S is holding up a purse she liked and C is getting jiggy near the lamp shade section. We were feeling festive.
This is Macy's store front. Everyone wanted to see what they had decorated the window fronts with this year. It was a dog theme and it was pretty cute. Inside there was a table where the kids could write a letter to Santa and drop it in the mail box. S wrote that she would like a barbie house. I kept it for myself because her handwriting was so darn cute.


And, we finally made our way to Union Square to see the tree lighting. Somehow, I only got half the tree in the shot. And, check out Macy's windows. Each one had a lit wreath inside. Pretty impressive. We were very excited to see the tree, can't you tell. The weather was gorgeous and we had good food and good company. My grandma and mother in law were so brave to join us- a slow moving 7 month pregger and her 2 preschool side kicks! That was our Thanksgiving weekend adventure. I hope yours was spent well with loved ones and good food.

Tomorrow we start our Christmas chain countdown and more of S's birthday party prep later in the week.