Thanksgiving 2009

Okay, I'm a little behind (again), but at least I am good about catching up!! Lol! For Thanksgiving this year, we went to Corpus to spend it with our family there. It had been 3 years since we had been there for Thanksgiving!! So we were definitely overdue!!! We decided to leave early Thanksgiving morning so that the kids could get a decent night's rest the night before. We were on the road by 7:30am. Not too bad if I do say so myself! :) The drive was pretty good, traffic wasn't bad at all.
We arrived at Papo's & Grandma Bebe's at 11am- just in time to eat!!! :) We spent the whole day eating, visiting with family, watching football, and playing with the kids.

On Friday, we visited with Cousin Lauren at her house, went to have some awesome enchilada's at Kiko's, and then went to the playground for a little while. Here are some pictures of Papo & Zach in the tree. Sidenote: Zach usually never gets to take naps when we are in Corpus, which means he gets pretty grumpy at times, which then leads to him not wanting me to take pictures of him. :)

On Friday night we went back to Cousin Lauren's house to enjoy some fried shrimp and fried fish for dinner. Thanks Uncle Jesse!! The kids loved it... they got to play outside and have fun!!

On Saturday, we headed out to the ranch to visit Great Grandpa & Grandma Gonzalez. Gabe was craving some of her famous Menudo. Well, all morning (after breakfast) Zach was complaining about his tummy hurting. And he is usually pretty good about telling you when he doesn't feel well. And if it is really hurting/upset, he won't let it go. He will whine and moan. This is when I know he is really not feeling well. He didn't have a fever, nothing else hurt, just an upset tummy. The drive out to the ranch is a good 45 minute drive and he complained almost the whole way there. We even pulled over once to see if he was all right. I told him to lay his head down and see if he could get some rest to make it better. He woke up as soon as we pulled into the driveway and he wanted me to carry him in. Well, as soon as we walked onto the side porch, he vomited everywhere!! Poor baby. It was all over him, me, the floor and even on Sophie. Good thing was, we had our suitcase in the car, so we had a change of clothes. Wow- not fun. But he seemed to feel better afterwards. He slowly drank some Sprite and went and joined the rest of the kids outside.

Oh, and we got to meet Baby Emily- the fifth great grandchild in the family!!

On our way out of town, we stopped by and visited with Grandma Sally for a little while. She is opening a new Antique store and we stopped in to check it out.
We finally hit the road for home around 5pm. Zach was still complaining about his tummy a little, but nothing too severe. We did stop to get some dinner on the way home and he ate some of that, so I think he felt better.

Needless to say, we all hit the hay once we got home and unpacked. We were all tired from all of the festivities.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving, as we did!!