A Beachy Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving we celebrated Thanksgiving and Nonny's 91st birthday!  This picture of Tatem staring adoringly at her great grandma is SO precious.  She just laid there and cooed at Nonny.  

My mom cooked a heavenly turkey dinner for all of us!

Halfway through dinner, Tatem woke up to join us. :)

My mom and I took Nonny back to her new apartment and when we came back, this was the adorable little one I saw.  Do you want to know something funny?  That was the Aggie outfit that I packed for Tatem!  It's a 3-6 month one.  When I told Mark, he said that explained why it was skin tight and so hard to get on!

Mark got us 2011 Maroon Out shirts, and I had an extra outfit packed for Tatem, so of course we had to get a family picture of our matching A&M attire.  I love it!!  (But I didn't love the last 3 seconds of the game. :(  )

Nonny's place is on the water, so P-Pa took Landrie out to feed the sea gulls one morning.  If you've ever done this yourself, you know why I only have this one picture.  As always, you can't find a single sea gull, then in seconds they swarm and you have to run inside!  Landrie was not too excited about it!

Landrie soaked up a ridiculous amount of love and attention from everyone around.  She enjoyed being the only toddler for most of the week!  How cute is she watching football with her daddy?

She and my mom made this sweet necklace out of colored noodles.  Landrie was SO proud of herself, and she's still wearing the necklace this week.  Today I caught her crunching away on one of the noodles!  Eww!

She helped my mom make her famous potato salad.  Landrie loves to help with anything, but especially loves to cook.  If I'm in the kitchen, she drags in a kitchen chair and says, "Mama, makin'?"  and wants to help with whatever I'm making. :)

One little happy Tatem loved some cuddle time with my dad!

Saturday lots of family came in town to celebrate Nonny's 91st birthday!  Thank you all so much for praying for Nonny in August.  She's moved from the hospital, to a rehab center and is now in an apartment in a retirement community.  We have so much to be thankful for!!  She's got her computer all set up and is back to checking email and even reading the blog.  Nonny, I hope you enjoy these pictures!!

Ali and Jonathan made the long drive in.  When I saw her at Kelly's wedding I was pregnant and she had some baby fever. :)  This weekend we got to celebrate that she is pregnant!!

My two precious baby girls...I still feel like I need to pinch myself.  I can't believe that God has overwhelmed me with an amazing husband and two daughters.  It's just a dream come true!

This one of Nonny with her three kids is so sweet!  

Mark, Craig, Jan and Nonny

Look!  It's Mark and our blog's #1 fan, right Donnie?  haha!

It was so great to stay up late and catch up with my aunts, uncles and cousins!

Bernadette, Kim, Kamlyn, 

Liesl and Kyla

My cousin's daughter Dreya pushed Landrie through the house on this train for ages!  I think Landrie's face says it all!  They both slept great that night. :)

I was behind the camera most of the time, but I did get one picture with my dad!

Whew!  We had quite a family-filled fun Thanksgiving this year!  I am beyond thankful for all of my sweet family!  

For those of you who are on facebook with me and saw all my Sunday posts, yup, even with that crazy trip home it was all worth it!  A trip that can be 6.5 hours without kids took us 11.5 hours, and we barely hit any traffic!  Our DVD player broke about 5 minutes into the trip, Landrie puked everywhere and Tatem screamed a lot.  We stopped 3 places in the tiny town of Edna, Texas alone!  I'd do it all again...but not this weekend please!!!  :)