Thanksgiving recap (finally)!

Sorry for the delay on this blog. Somehow we lost the pictures on our computer but thanks to Mike we found them last night! Here are some (actually a lot) of pictures from our 9 day Thanksgiving trek to Georgia and Tennessee. It was quite relaxing seeing family and I also got to see several of my high school best friends as well--and finally meet their kiddos. Jackson is a great flyer (had his first flight at 9 weeks old) and spent most of this trip listening to books on CD. Here he's enjoying Cars. For the first time ever I actually got to read some of my book.Our first stop was Georgia to see Nana and Papa. Jackson relaxing with Papa and enjoying some Bob the Builder

Jackson ready to make a gingerbread tree with Nana (she even had an apron ready for him)

Decorating the tree

Jackson and Mike take a cooking-making-break to check out the neighborhood playground

We also got to visit GG and Pops in their new home. Jackson's helping GG drive her new wheels

Here's the fam after a nice lunch

After several days in Georgia it was off to Tennessee to visit Mimi and Dow. Here's Jackson ready for some grilling lessons

And lucky for us Aunt Emily and Uncle Karl were around for the holiday. Unfortunately Uncle Tim was in San Fran and couldn't make it back. I think this picture could be a Christmas card ---if only we could get one like this with Jackson.

And of course we had to make MORE cookies. Jackson is trying his hand at gingerbread men (and women)

A definite highlight of the trip was seeing my high school friends. Here we all are! We did miss Sarah and Jenn who were both on the opposite side of the country (literally). We met for our reunion at Big Eds----very popular back in the day! It was so nice to see everyone and finally meet all the kids but not nearly long enough. Next time we need to also include some kid-free time to chat.

And here are all the kids---8 plus two in utero. What's really crazy is we all have boys, even one in utero (just don't know what Baby Manes is yet). And now that I think about it Sarah and Jenn who couldn't make it both have all girls so this was really just a boys day--kind of crazy.

Jackson also got to see Grandma Mowrer who had a special Christmas gift she had made---his own apron to take home so that when we make even more cookies (if he's not cookied out) we won't get the clothes all dirty!

So that's the short version of our trip :)