Gobbler, gobbled.

I fell off the blogging horse again! I think I'll blame it on a tryptophan induced stupor that prevented me from posting for a few days. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! My parents and my two brothers drove over from Salt Lake City to spend the weekend here. This was the first time I've ever hosted a holiday at my home and it was such fun. They drove in on Wednesday, we did the big dinner on Thursday, hung out on Friday and then they left yesterday morning. A quick visit, but we had a wonderful time!

Here are a few photos of Maren taken right before the big dinner on Thursday. The first isn't a great photo technically, but I love it because you can see my brothers and husband on the couch watching football, the beautiful sunset as we sat down to eat, the only shot of my table (duh! how did I forget to take a better picture of that?) featuring the tablecloth sent to me by Lisa-Gabrielle, and Miss Maren performing the time-honored Thanksgiving ritual of eating black olives off her fingers!
Maren had an adorable dress for Thanksgiving, also courtesy of the lovely Lisa-Gabrielle. You can see it better in the second photo. It's smocked with the most darling little squirrel and fall leaves and acorns around the collar. Seriously the cutest thing ever, and unless she goes through a sudden growth spurt I think she'll be able to wear it once more next year. Thank you again, Lisa-Gabrielle!

Tomorrow morning we leave for San Diego for the week. Quin has to go for a work conference so Maren and I are tagging along. He'll likely be in meetings during the day Tuesday-Thursday but there is a trolley stop near to the hotel so I'll just strap Maren in the stroller and we'll go exploring! I need to do some serious walking to work off the ridiculous amount of Chocolate Trifle I've eaten this weekend. We're also hoping to take Maren to the San Diego Zoo, and Sea World has a deal that lets military families in for free so we're hoping to take advantage of that as well! Quin will have his work computer so I may be able to blog from the road! Gotta get back in the habit.