Sunday, December 1, 2013

Thanksgiving 2013

It's tradition to head to Roseville for Thanksgiving weekend. This year we drove up Thanksgiving morning instead of Wednesday evening. We thought FOR SURE the traffic would be drastically better.
Apparently....everyone else thought so too. 
The good news is we didn't have to help prepare anything for the meal and my husband is great at singing Karaoke.
The bad news is it took us an extra two hours to make the 300 hundred and something mile trip. Thank goodness for electronic devices, because three kids in the backseat of the Passat were ready to scratch each others' eyes out about 30 miles in. Frankly, I'm a little surprised I practiced such restraint...with not throwing myself from a moving vehicle. :)
Happy Thanksgiving!

 The kids were excited to meet Mazie and Izzy...the new little puppies that our family adopted. They are half Chihuahua and half something else. :)
Thanksgiving dinner was the traditional turkey with a bunch of delicious sides. Unfortunately, a little stomach bug kept my appetite in check....so I didn't eat too much. Just a few bites of this and that.

 We slept at Bobby and Lindsay's house, so the cousins were excited for the extra time together. They were graciously, awesome hosts!
 Big Daddy took the kids and cousin Natalie to see "Frozen" in 3-D, while a few of us girls went Black Friday shopping. 
The movie was a hit....and so was the shopping.

 Saturday morning was the traditional girls' trip to get mani/pedis.

 Saturday afternoon Grandpa Baer took some family pictures for us. 
Thank you Grandpa! 
Wiggy loved getting her picture taken....can you tell?!





After family pictures we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Baer's house for a big birthday party for all the November/December birthdays. Grandpa grilled burgers and dogs and Grandma fried some chicken. 
Mmmmmmmmm-mmmmm.
Saturday night we got a wild hair and decided to drive straight home, rather than fight the traffic on Sunday. We left around 8:30pm and we were in bed around 1:30am. Not bad!



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That Stop Wasn't On My Itinerary....

So the Hogue's made it to Florida for our first official family vacation. It was Sawyer's first plane ride....and Simon's first plane ride that he can remember. We were excited....the boys were stoked. We had everything we needed! But it seems that Sawyer packed something with him that wasn't on our checklist: a big case of pneumonia. Yes, the little fella made it almost one whole day in Florida before he started heading downhill fast. Our 2nd day in Orlando we were in the Urgent Care south of Cocoa Beach. (By the way, to see a doctor more quickly, it helps if you vomit all over the waiting room in front of the receptionist. Little tip for ya) After chest x-rays they advised us to head to the ER in Melbourne, where they eventually admitted him to the hospital. So, we had 3 night deluxe accommadations at the Holmes Regional Medical Center. The little whipper snapper was a trooper though! The nurses loved him, thankfully, and made us all feel right at home. We were going to send postcards out with pictures of the hospital since we spent 40% of our trip there...but they didn't have any. Imagine that!Hmmm.....maybe its something they should consider.

Florida 2008