Thanksgiving Week

So I did not meet my goal last week of a post!  Bummer!  But to my credit, we had a VERY busy week!!  Monday night we went to the office to decorate Hutch's office for his big 3-0!

Tuesday we had a surprise party/dinner for him, then Wednesday we left for Richmond and a long weekend with the family!  And some how I packed my whole house in there too to get to Richmond!  We left Wednesday mid morning for Richmond to spend the Thanksgiving weekend with my family.  We had lots of fun and saw tons of people!  We made it there by about 2:30pm and spent some time with my family.  Everyone is way more excited to see us these days (since Burke was born), not sure why?! :)  Brian made his way over to Tim's to hang out that evening and Burke and I helped mom do some last minute grocery shopping and pre-cooking for Thanksgiving.

Burke's first Thanksgiving was GREAT!  We spent the day with my family, most people we have had for thanksgiving in a LONG time (once again I have a sneaking suspicion it was due to a certain baby)! Burke slept through Thanksgiving lunch and then was passed around after pie :)  We ate way too much and hung out for the rest of the day.  It was great to see everyone! 

Mom and Dad cooking

Friday Morning/Thursday night we spent doing a little christmas shopping.  We made the mistake of going to ToysRus with everyone else in Richmond in the POURING rain and lightning and thunder at midnight! But I did get everything I wanted!! We then made our way to bed and got up around 6:30 and left the house about 7:30 to get the rest of our black friday shopping done.  It was great!  We got a decent amont of sleep and got lots of good deals.  Sleeping in was well worth it and we really didn't miss anything!

Saturday was a BIG day in our house!  We got my dad VT vs UVA football tickets and all went to the game in Charlottesville.  It was lots of fun and the Hokies won! It was Burke's first away game and all of our first VT vs UVA game in C'ville.  We found great parking and beat the traffic which was great!  Generally speaking, the UVA fans were nice and it was a nice family outing!  We'll definitely have to do it again in 2011 (don't worry, we'll be at the game in Blacksburg next year)... Too bad they fired Groh, it might actually be a game next year (okay, i'll admit it we were all nervous at the beginning this year...)?

After a 5.5 hour drive home, we finally made it back Sunday night.. 81 was horrible and there were a million accidents, but we made it safely (and Burke was so good too!).. We were all definitely ready to be home and to get back to a sense of normalcy.. Now I'm playing catch-up and get ready for Christmas!  A couple weeks and we'll be making the same trip back for Christmas!