Thanksgiving

I know it has been a long time since my last blog entry, sorry about that. Life has gotten crazy.

This last weekend we (my husband & I) decided to head home to Utah for a surprise visit. We decided this on Wednesday afternoon at about 4:00 and were packed and on the road by 7:00 pm. We prefer doing the drive at night because traffic is lighter and our son sleeps most of the way there. Anyway, the drive was uneventful and we made in 11 hours, faster than we expected. The kicker of the visit was that we didn't tell our families we were coming.

My husband called his parents house while we were in the driveway at 6am. My father-in-law & sister-in-law were so kind and even talked to my son on the phone before we finally told them we weren't just calling to say hello & happy Thanksgiving. My sister-in-law did not believe that we were in the driveway, so my husband honked the horn to proove that we were in deed in Utah and parked in her driveway! They were so surprised!

Next surprise visit was to my Sisters house for Thanksgiving dinner. I had to call my Mom and ask what time everyone was meeting so we could show up after everyone was already there. We drove up and my husband ALMOST ruined the surprise by parking right in front of their house!!! I told him to move, but it was too late. My nephew had already spotted us! DARN! I stopped him from running in and telling everyone he was right, he had seen our car. As we entered the house, my Dad was sitting on the front room couch reading Time magazine, he didn't even look up when I stood at his feet for a good 20 seconds. So what did I do? I placed my 2 year old son on his lap! He looked at my son, then up at me, then back at my son and said "how did you get here?! When did you get here?!" My Mom was standing in the kitchen and still had not looked up, so I simply said "Hi Mom!" She looked at me and was speachless for I kid you not, about 5 minutes!!! It was the BEST surprise EVER! Of course my Mom tried to pin the surprise on my Dad and my brothers and refused to believe that nobody knew we were coming, heck, we didnt' even know we were coming until 15 hours prior to that time!!!! I was gonna get video of the surprise, but forgot my camera back at my in-laws house (oops).

That was our Thanksgiving weekend. My Dad & I also said up his really cool train, that my son LOVED! I did happen to capture of few photos of him with the Choo-choo.