Thanksgiving! (And the Rest of November)

November is one of my favorite months, because I love Thanksgiving, and it is just the precursor to the Christmas season, which is the BEST.  But in November 2017, life was just rolling along, with my pregnancy progressing (let it be known that my hair during my pregnancy was amazing!), Danny practicing his baking skills in preparation for Thanksgiving, and seeing the pre-Broadway run of Mean Girls with some friends.  The weather was finally starting to feel like Autumn, and the leaves finally started to turn.

26 weeks on November 1st!

So, Thanksgiving. Danny is a gem.  This was all his idea, because he decided that my family needed to see me while I was still pregnant.  So we went to Utah to be with the fam for Thanksgiving.  It also worked out that his parents decided to come to Utah for Thanksgiving, so we got to see some of Danny's family as well.  It made for a little bit of a crazy week, but it was great. We were able to see some of my good friends as well, which only added to the crazy/fun.

Jeff Stevens

Katie Hill and Jen Jacobsen and Raef

My Maggie girl

The Cannons also came into town for Thanksgiving, so my parents had a really full house, and Thanksgiving Day was a very big production to pull off!  Danny was a little overwhelmed, being a bit more introverted, but was wonderful and a great sport anyway.  I can't tell you how good it was to be with my family!

 

Cyndi gave me the best gift- an exercise book by Marie Osmond in the 1980's.  It was priceless. 



Danny's pies were a hit, of course.  And my 29-week pregnant self ate my share and then some....



Just....recreating the awkward.

The bummer about being pregnant during a holiday is that, I was so bloated that I couldn't eat as much as I felt I was entitled to, eating for two. ;-) But I put away a good amount of food anyway, no worries.

 

It was so wonderful to see my family, and Danny was right; my mom was thrilled to see me pregnant.  And you seriously can't beat the sunsets in Mapletopia.

 

We came back to quickly welcome Ally to the East Coast with a fancy dinner at Chick Fila. ;-)  I was so excited to have some family close by! She moved to Virginia to start her new job as the Press Secretary for Senator Hatch from Utah. So proud of her!