An Early Thanksgiving

Yesterday we went to my parents' house for dinner. (From this point forward my parents will be referred to as MaMaw & Grady.) We haven't seen much of them lately and we were hoping to finally celebrate MaMaw's birthday. Since we will be spending Thanksgiving with Fred's side of the family, MaMaw decided to fix an early Thanksgiving dinner for us. It was delicious!

While we were getting the table set Jonathan and Grady sat down to a hot game of Sequence for Kids. This is Jonathan's favorite game and he will challenge anyone to a game. It is really intended for younger kids but Jonathan has never grown out of his favorite game. Notice the lovely green hat that he is wearing. He asked MaMaw to make him this hat. Of course, she happily made the hat. I say happily because she knew that it would drive me crazy! Last year, she let him pick out some really ugly orange fleece with green flames. I have never seen a print that ugly. She made him a nice little hoodie out of it! I'm not sure what I did as a child to deserve this. All I know is that she gets a lot of enjoyment out of Jonathan's requests.

MaMaw and Grady are always good about finding fun activities for the kids. They decided that we would build a fire and make S'mores. While we were waiting for the fire to get just right, we told scary stories. Only I think our stories were more silly than scary.

Fred stayed inside on the couch and slept. He accused MaMaw of drugging him. It seems that he always has to lay down on her couch and go to sleep after he eats one of her meals. He did make it outside just in time to roast marshmallows. Jonathan just liked burning his marshmallows. He wasn't really interested in eating them... just roasting them.


Jonathan, once again, proved his ability to fall asleep anywhere. He fell asleep in Grady's lap shortly after we finished up our S'mores. We all came home smelling like a campfire, but we had a great time!

Thanks for the great time, MaMaw and Grady!