Last week Jace and I flew to Athens, Georgia to have Thanksgiving with his family. It was a great reunion because we hadn’t seen Jace’s brother and sister in law in about a year. We also got to meet our niece Mary Elise for the first time. She had me wrapped around her little finger the moment we walked through the door!

I have made a few observations about Georgia. The main one is everyone uses more butter in a meal than I would use in a month. I thought it was just Paula Deen that had the butter obsession, but no. Its everyone in Georgia! My other observation was that everything we ate was amazing! So Georgians, keep shoving butter in everything and I will visit and eat all that I can. However, my arteries can only handle once or twice a year so I’ll have to make it good while I’m there. Needless to say, we had a great Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey, sweet potatoes, stuffing and so much more.

Can you see the heavens shining down on our turkey? It was that good!

I also got to go to my first Christmas tree farm. I was so excited. We have always had fake trees and while they have been great the real ones were so pretty. There were rows and rows of trees in all sizes and shapes. You could even get a Charlie Brown Christmas tree if you wanted. We picked the most perfect one, chopped it down and took it home. You think Griswold’s Christmas Vacation was outrageous? You should see us trying to get the tree home. It was quite entertaining.

It was a great week. I am truly blessed to be a part of this amazing family. I always come home feeling so loved and I couldn’t ask for a better group to be loved by. You guys are amazing. Thank you for letting me be a part of your lives. Justin and Margaret, thank you for opening up your homes and lives to us even if it was just for a week. We appreciate everything you did, from the wonderful meal to your gracious hospitality. We love you so much!

You can see more of my Thanksgiving photos here.

This past weekend we got to attend the 70th annual Gregg Family Reunion with my wonderful father and mother in-law. We had the greatest time catching up with family and doing lots of swimming, shopping and eating (which I am trying to forget about). It was so great to be able to see everyone and create memories we will never forget.

As always you can go here to see all my photos from the reunion.

This weekend we threw my memaw and pop a birthday party. Pop turned 80 and memaw turned 75. So we invited 125 of their closest friends and had a party. The guest list started out small and much like our wedding it grew and grew to where our small party turned into a huge blow out.

We had a great party. We got to see friends that we haven’t seen in a while and friends we see quite regularly. And above all memaw and pop were reminded once again that they are loved very, very much.
I had to throw this photo of my cousin Rani in because I thought it was really funny.

Here are some of the photos of all of our Christmases this year. They start out here in Midland and the end photos are on Christmas in Georgia. I could only fit so many on this page so I’m going to put more up on our flickr page.

Matt playing with his new iphone.

Enjoying the evening with family.

Braz likes the box better than what’s in it.

Rani is the chef now.

Joe and Jace wrestling.

Margaret cooking our fattening but amazing Christmas meal.

We just had an amazing week with our family. Everyone came in for family reunion and then stayed the week to visit everyone. We had a great time and I actually didn’t get hurt this time. Yes, it can be done. I can get through a vacation with out getting hurt. No burns, scratches, bruises or organs being removed. A great success if you ask me. Now, my house is back to normal and I only have 2 more loads of laundry. I accomplished this in only two days. I call it a miracle!