Also known as my Thanksgiving Holiday Recap.
We truly had a wonderful holiday weekend. We started by celebrating Thanksgiving with my family on Wednesday night...it was just the six of us plus Belle and my Grandparents. Even though it was a small group, we still had a large time. I didn't take any pictures really...except for when Granddaddy thought it would be funny to get our little Gamecock drawing pictures of Sammy Watkins (Clemson's supposedly BEST player, unfortunately for the Tigers that wasn't the case at the game on Saturday, haha!!) *Side note: my family is a split family when it comes to the biggest rivalry in our state....Carolina vs. Clemson. Mom and I are Carolina Gamecocks (her dad was a dean at the business school there and is a huge fan and she grew up a Carolina fan as did I) and fortunately for my mom and ,I my Clemson loving brother married a HUGE Gamecock fan! So, of course...little Belle is following in her mommy, Aunt, and Lolly's footsteps and is a gamecock too. My dad and brother are the Clemson fans, poor guys! Ha! (My dad's whole side of the family is Clemson, I guess my parents decided since they had one boy and one girl...the boy could be Clemson with daddy and the girl could be Carolina with mommy! ha!) Anyways...back to the point. Boy, can I ramble! My dad thought it would be so funny to teach Belle how to draw Clemson paws and Sammy Watkins, he even tried to get her to say Go Sammy go...but that girl is trained too well:) She constantly says, Clemson...yuck! Precious!
Granddaddy and Belle with their number 2 drawings....my dad, quite the artist, yes? ha!
So, Thanksgiving day was absolutely wonderful. We got to sleep in, lay on the couch all day at my parents house, watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, read, be lazy, take Milly on a walk (we tried to burn off a few of those calories!), etc. It was SO nice not to be crazy busy the whole break. We didn't have to go to Mikey's dads house until later in the afternoon so we got a whole day to ourselves. Pure heaven. We headed over to be with Mikey's family around 5 and of course I got no pictures again. But, we had a good dinner and good night with the Glenn family as well:)
BLACK FRIDAY: No, we didn't do anything crazy...there just wasn't anything that I was dying to have/needed this year that was going on crazy sale. As I've mentioned our Christmas is being devoted to baby Collins, so we were in bed at a reasonable time Thursday night, no crazy shopping for us. Mikey had to work Friday though, so mom and I decided to head up to Southpark mall in Charlotte for the day. It was great, the traffic wasn't bad and the mall really wasn't that packed. I was shocked! We got some good deals and definitely racked up at the Pottery Barn Kids, which we don't have in Columbia...so that was nice!
That night, my crazy self was hosting a going away party/oyster roast at my house. We used to try and have a big get together the night after Thanksgiving for the home town crowd, so this year we did it again! It ended up being super fun, a lot of people came out and I hear that the oysters were amazing!
Griff...on the left, moving to Texas tomorrow!
My little family:)
Some of the girls.
Friends.
Mikey had to work AGAIN on Saturday...so with me being prego and him having to work, we had everyone out of the house by midnight....we sent all them young folks downtown, ha! But, Saturday was GAME DAY and you know what that means....a LONG, amazing day of tailgating!! We actually didn't get out there until 3 because of Mikey having to work but the game wasn't until almost 8, so we still had PLENTY of time. *especially being the sober girl at tailgate for that long, whew!* But, it was SO, SO worth it as we watched our ASS KICKIN' CHICKEN GAMECOCKS kick Clemson's butt!!! Victory is SO sweet, especially when it is the rivalry game.
Girl pic. Please excuse our one little tiger fan! ha!
and again...few different girls this time.
Good looking group of guys if I dare say so!
Go cocks!
The stadium was ELECTRIFYING that night. LOVED it.
We ended up not getting home until 1:30 that night, woah....I feel OLD saying that:) But, we had to celebrate our victory in style and visit several other tailgates after the game! So, Sunday was a super productive day after we slept in. We got the WHOLE house decorated for Christmas, YAY!!! AND...Mikey finished painting the nursery! Woohoo:)
What a wonderful holiday weekend it was. I was simply POOPED by the time Sunday night rolled around, but we had such fun every day....I can't believe how different our Thanksgiving will be next year with a BABY!!!!!!!!!!
We truly had a wonderful holiday weekend. We started by celebrating Thanksgiving with my family on Wednesday night...it was just the six of us plus Belle and my Grandparents. Even though it was a small group, we still had a large time. I didn't take any pictures really...except for when Granddaddy thought it would be funny to get our little Gamecock drawing pictures of Sammy Watkins (Clemson's supposedly BEST player, unfortunately for the Tigers that wasn't the case at the game on Saturday, haha!!) *Side note: my family is a split family when it comes to the biggest rivalry in our state....Carolina vs. Clemson. Mom and I are Carolina Gamecocks (her dad was a dean at the business school there and is a huge fan and she grew up a Carolina fan as did I) and fortunately for my mom and ,I my Clemson loving brother married a HUGE Gamecock fan! So, of course...little Belle is following in her mommy, Aunt, and Lolly's footsteps and is a gamecock too. My dad and brother are the Clemson fans, poor guys! Ha! (My dad's whole side of the family is Clemson, I guess my parents decided since they had one boy and one girl...the boy could be Clemson with daddy and the girl could be Carolina with mommy! ha!) Anyways...back to the point. Boy, can I ramble! My dad thought it would be so funny to teach Belle how to draw Clemson paws and Sammy Watkins, he even tried to get her to say Go Sammy go...but that girl is trained too well:) She constantly says, Clemson...yuck! Precious!
Granddaddy and Belle with their number 2 drawings....my dad, quite the artist, yes? ha!
So, Thanksgiving day was absolutely wonderful. We got to sleep in, lay on the couch all day at my parents house, watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, read, be lazy, take Milly on a walk (we tried to burn off a few of those calories!), etc. It was SO nice not to be crazy busy the whole break. We didn't have to go to Mikey's dads house until later in the afternoon so we got a whole day to ourselves. Pure heaven. We headed over to be with Mikey's family around 5 and of course I got no pictures again. But, we had a good dinner and good night with the Glenn family as well:)BLACK FRIDAY: No, we didn't do anything crazy...there just wasn't anything that I was dying to have/needed this year that was going on crazy sale. As I've mentioned our Christmas is being devoted to baby Collins, so we were in bed at a reasonable time Thursday night, no crazy shopping for us. Mikey had to work Friday though, so mom and I decided to head up to Southpark mall in Charlotte for the day. It was great, the traffic wasn't bad and the mall really wasn't that packed. I was shocked! We got some good deals and definitely racked up at the Pottery Barn Kids, which we don't have in Columbia...so that was nice!
That night, my crazy self was hosting a going away party/oyster roast at my house. We used to try and have a big get together the night after Thanksgiving for the home town crowd, so this year we did it again! It ended up being super fun, a lot of people came out and I hear that the oysters were amazing!
Griff...on the left, moving to Texas tomorrow!
My little family:)
Some of the girls.
Friends.
Mikey had to work AGAIN on Saturday...so with me being prego and him having to work, we had everyone out of the house by midnight....we sent all them young folks downtown, ha! But, Saturday was GAME DAY and you know what that means....a LONG, amazing day of tailgating!! We actually didn't get out there until 3 because of Mikey having to work but the game wasn't until almost 8, so we still had PLENTY of time. *especially being the sober girl at tailgate for that long, whew!* But, it was SO, SO worth it as we watched our ASS KICKIN' CHICKEN GAMECOCKS kick Clemson's butt!!! Victory is SO sweet, especially when it is the rivalry game.Girl pic. Please excuse our one little tiger fan! ha!
and again...few different girls this time.
Good looking group of guys if I dare say so!
Go cocks!
The stadium was ELECTRIFYING that night. LOVED it.
We ended up not getting home until 1:30 that night, woah....I feel OLD saying that:) But, we had to celebrate our victory in style and visit several other tailgates after the game! So, Sunday was a super productive day after we slept in. We got the WHOLE house decorated for Christmas, YAY!!! AND...Mikey finished painting the nursery! Woohoo:) What a wonderful holiday weekend it was. I was simply POOPED by the time Sunday night rolled around, but we had such fun every day....I can't believe how different our Thanksgiving will be next year with a BABY!!!!!!!!!!
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