Thanksgiving Travels

Thanksgiving Weekend was filled with family and traveling. We flew from Orlando to Lexington to start our trip. We celebrated Thanksgiving day at Isaac's parents with most of the family. That morning we skyped with Josh and Nikki in Okinawa, Japan, who were cleaning up from their meal with friends and Josh's birthday...they were already heading to bed since it was after midnight there. Next, we talked with Leah who lives in Munich, Germany. She had just gotten home from teaching and was getting ready to order her annual Thanksgiving pizza to tide her over until her celebration with friends on Saturday. We also heard from Aaron and Katie who are currently living in Fairbanks, Alaska, and were having an appetizer party for lunch and a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with friends that evening. We really missed our siblings abroad!

Poor Isaac spent much of his time with Grandma Treesh trying to reacquaint himself with her. Even though she didn't remember hardly any of our names, she did remember that she loves us and reminded us often with hugs and kisses.

Isaac and Daniel had fun monkeying around together. Daniel is such a good kid!

Isaac and I at the Thanksgiving dinner table.

Daniel and Sarah (1st cousin) are helping Grandma get situated. Sarah was a tremendous help with Grandma, and we are so thankful that she is there to lend a hand to both Grandma and her other caregivers. Daniel always had an eye out for Grandma, and I witnessed him taking care of her needs several times...what a sweetie or as Grandma called him "our little boy".

Mark and Jan, we enjoyed spending time with you!

Gabe and Donna receiving their wedding shower gift from the Treesh clan...their wedding is May 21, 2011 on St. Augustine Beach...can't wait!

Jonathan and Abby...Daniel is Abby's son and Jonathan's BFF according to Daniel...Daniel told us all about his love for Jonathan's french toast with powdered sugar on top-yum!

Aleese and Sammy...I think love is in the air!

The guys had to play Yuker as tradition on all Treesh holidays...I played long enough to beat Sammy and Gabe, also a Treesh tradition;)

On Friday, Jan took the girls to lunch at this great tea room in Lexington to celebrate Donna becoming a part of the family. I have a feeling Aleese isn't far behind, and then all the Treesh boys will be officially taken.

Isaac fixed up Mark's car before we jumped in and headed down to Knoxville for a couple of days for a Smith Family Thanksgiving.

More food! My mom cooked everything the boys requested and more and it was all delicious...and then the food coma began to set in...

Dad and Mom in the front, Isaac and I (left), Kari and Neale (middle), and Jack Black, I mean, Perry (right).

And there Jack Black is again! Seriously, I don't understand why my brothers can't take a decent picture and why my dad doesn't take until he gets a good one! At least Neale had the good sense to pick a great girlfriend who tries to keep him in line.

Yes, game day was sad for the Cats, but I got to catch up with Bethany in a Cracker Barrel full of UT orange...lovely. Other than the orange, we had a great time and it was SO good to see her! I love our friendship...we just get each other and always pick up where we left off the way sisters do...I love you, Bethany!

And last, but not least, we celebrated Perry's 21st birthday on Saturday with game food and mom's tenderloin and homemade mac 'n cheese...as if we really needed more food! Notice that Isaac was enjoying every bite-you would think that I don't feed that boy!

We arrived back to Orlando on Sunday night and wandered around the dark parking lot with our rolling luggage and me in 4-inch high-heeled boots until we found our car 20 minutes later...we got the row right, just not the letter of the lot...next time we'll take a photo of our parking spot! We got home at 10:30, threw a load of laundry in, and crashed. It was a crazy weekend, but worth every extra pound gained to spend time with family.