so this thanksgiving i was full of many things.
i was full of FOOD, laughter, love, homesickness & well thankfulness. 
i was able to spend this thanksgiving with my family, and my dad’s side of the family.
that includes my cousins tyler, lium & little anna mason. I NEVER get to spend time with them…in fact the last time i got to spend time with them was when anna mason was a baby. let me show you just how much time has passed since i saw them last:
then (summer 2k7):
and now (winter 2k8):
She’s so precious. It took her maybe 5 seconds to warm up to me and then after that she was permanently sitting in my lap, playing with my hair and saying ‘whassat?’ and pointing to every bracelet, earring, shoe & hat. I find it interesting how young girls are when they start to admire beautiful things. It’s like we are wired that way. The reason why she stuck by my side was because i was captivated by her, and she knew it. I could not get enough of those big blue eyes, button nose and cute little smile. She’d come up to me and say “trishy can i hold you?” Really now…there is no denying that. I really cherished my time with her, because i know i won’t be seeing her for a long time, and you guys can see how much she’s grown in just one year. I wish that i could see her more often, and invest even more of my heart into her.
Tyler & Lium are a hoot.
this lil guy right here gave me the How To Be a Real Jedi Lesson 101 in mema’s backyard. All of my life i thought i knew how to fight like a Jedi until this dude told me about The Force, blocking The Force and bouncing The Force. This brought a whole new realm into my imaginary playground! we had a lot of fun fighting with our imaginary light sabers and then running away from Evan & Tyler when they chased us with sticks. Who does that? You don’t bring sticks into an imaginary story. duh.
I’m so thankful i got to spend precious time with my sweet cousins.
After all of that time playing Jedi’s outside and taking photos of Anna Mason, it was FINALLY time to eat thanksgiving dinner! Mema did a stinkin AWESOME job at cooking us a delicious feast. After filling our bellies we sat in a circle and did our traditional ‘thankful box’. Throughout the day everyone in the family anonymously writes down little scribbles of what we are thankful and stick them in the box. Then after dinner we sit in a circle and pass the box around and read the pieces of paper out loud.
Then Mema changed things up a bit this year and instead of playing cards, we took a 3 page test on fun facts about Turkey. hahahaha. It was actually quite hilarious. Out of 3 pages of questions…i only got 6 questions right, but hey i was unprepared! at least there was still prizes for everyone.
although i would love to share more of my thanksgiving day…i’m getting pretty scatter brained, not to mention i am severely distracted by the delicious scent of sugar cookies baking downstairs. I’m sure our thanksgivings were not too different from one another. Just know that I, too ate too much turkey and I, too was disappointed that the Jonas Brothers didn’t make it out to the Macy’s Parade.
i must go partake in the cookies now.
