Weekend Wrap-Up: The Thanksgiving Edition

I'm a little overwhelmed thinking about writing this blog post.

How can I sum up the past 5 days?

As I alluded to in my Thanksgiving Post, we had a Henschwekebosselin weekend, which means my mom's whole side of the family came to town from out east and Colorado.  The last time we were all together was more than 6 years ago at our wedding.  Amazing.


The East Coasters (my Uncle Joe, Cousin Karl, and his girlfriend Erica) and Auntie Yoda (Laura's new name) arrived by Wednesday afternoon.  We enjoyed sight-seeing by the condo.

Happy with her Henderson Aunties

Cousins!

All the Colorado people (Grammy, my Uncle John, Aunt Jen, and Aunt Margie) arrived Wednesday night in time for the Turkey Day 5K on Thursday morning (also mentioned in the Thanksgiving Post).

Ekeberg Siblings

After the race, a day full of family, football, and food began.  And a little continuation of the Stomach Bug.  But I'll touch on that later.


Along with all of the Henschwekebosselins mentioned above, Chris' side of the family (Bob, Mary, Cathleen and Dan), Jen's mom (Marti), and my other Grandma all came for Thanksgiving dinner.  Again, Amazing.  There were 20 of us, so we needed three tables!

The Kids Table

The Not-So-Kids Table

The Big Table

The food was delicious.  Callie even contributed to the meal by lending a "helping hand" with the place setting cards.

Gobble Gobble!

The fact that we were all celebrating this holiday together was...you guessed it...amazing.  

The rest of the weekend was filled with more fun, chaos, comings and goings, and people getting sick.  

Yep, The Stomach Bug continued its rampage and hit Auntie Wadi (Mari's new name), Uncle Joe, Karl, Pa, Aunt Margie, and Cathleen all at some time throughout the weekend.  At this point I'm just waiting to hear from the others that they got it.  It isn't seeming to let up!

Despite that, we managed to have some good ole family fun.

Mill City Museum

Double 4 Generation Picture

Occupy Condo

Fun with Legos

Reading with Great Margie

Heart and Soul

Duets Trios

Henschwekebosselin Clan

So thanks to everyone who traveled to Minnesota so we could all be together.  And thanks to my mom for orchestrating a wonderful weekend!


That brings us to today.  We went to church and brunch with my parents and sisters, and then spent the rest of the day relaxing, watching football, and hanging out with Dave, Cherilyn and Sydney.

Little Buddies

As usual, I have put a bunch more pictures on our Shutterfly Site.  Enjoy!

Now that it is almost December, I'm looking forward to putting our Christmas tree and decorations up.  Now to find a spot in our house for our little tree where certain little hands won't get to it...