Thanksgiving 2012

We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!



Johnny, Lila and I headed over to visit his parents and sisters in North Carolina, and then we all went to North Myrtle Beach to meet up with the McDonald extended family.

Including significant others and friends, our family totaled twenty people and two dogs.

Lila loved hanging out with her Aunt Lauren.

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They were best buds



Lila also had fun meeting her great aunts and great uncles.

Johnny's Aunt Margie and Uncle Steven put us all up in their beach house.  And on Thanksgiving everyone (and by everyone I meant everyone but Johnny and me...wa ha ha it all went according to my plan!) chipped in cooking dinner.  His cousin Keaton and Keaton's girlfriend, Cassie, made the AMAZING turkey and Uncle Jack carved it.

I can't even pick a favorite side dish because it was all fantastic...though I did not try the creamed onions.  Maybe next year. 

Lila loved spending time with her Grampie.

And she made some fabulous strides in crawling.  She's almost there!  It helped that she had about nine cheerleaders every time she tried.

Lately, Lila is obsessed with feeling everyone's hair.  She really liked Uncle Keaton's too.

After our few days at the beach house, we stopped at Plantation Pancakes for a last brunch before everyone left.

Grammie took care of feeding Lila.  Her new favorite is pears.

After Lila was done eating, we passed her around, and she ended up sitting like a big girl with Miss Cassie and Uncle Keaton for awhile.

Before coming home to Kansas, we stopped by at the Hutsons' house, and Lila got to hang out with Allie.

Lila loves Allie and kept trying to say "Puh puh" for "puppy."

Allie was a very good sport.

I always love spending time with Johnny's extended family, but it was especially fun this year to meet Suzanne's boyfriend, Alex, and Keaton's girlfriend, Cassie.  It's also nice to get to talk more to Johnny's aunts and uncles and get to know better the people that he loves so much.  Adding a crazy fun baby to the mix doesn't hurt things either.