Thanksgiving 2019

Happy Post Thanksgiving (now that it's a week until Christmas). For this Thanksgiving, I was planning on being lame and eating Thanksgiving dinner at the Hospital. Sam's co-residents got together a previous weekend to have a dinner of their own. I wanted to go as well but our kids got bad colds. Sounded like a grand time, but since I wasn't there, I couldn't really tell ya.

Well, Sam suggested going to Albuquerque because he had most of the week off due to the Holiday. Don't have to convince me! We loaded the car after his last appointment on Tuesday and drove into Albuquerque around midnight. We stayed at Sam's parents' new house and it is mighty nice. It is currently on its way to getting even nicer as they decided to redo the kitchen. At first I was a little sad that they were moving because I had a lot of memories of their old house (we got engaged there, we first held hands there, our reception was in the backyard, etc) but Jessica and her family moved in so it's nice it will stay in the family!

Eden just loves babies! Kinda interesting to see that after having two boys.

 EPIC SNOW STORM! So glad we left the night before this happened! This is in the parking lot of a restaurant we went to.

The boys loved the new house and its furniture. Good thing we don't live around here to wear out that furniture, eh heh.

Both boys spending quality time with Grandma on Thanksgiving morning.

 Then we had to go play in the snow! South Texans don't get very many opportunities.

Do you want to build a snowman?

Eli called him Fritzy and the name stuck for this guy.

Joey lasted the longest. He says he wants to live in Antarctica when he grows up.

We had the Kartchner Thanksgiving at the Prestwich home (Mike and Judy were very kind to let us use their house). We took a Kartchner family photo and it didn't turn out bad. We just missed Zach and his family. I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with family. Realized I should have taken way more photos. Whoops.

In true New Mexico fashion the snow melted the next day. But I did spot a road runner!

Sam found this picture on Facebook. I guess one of his friends spotted Fritzy and took a picture of him. What a coincidence! He was pretty much gone the next day. RIP Fritzy.

Other things that happened on this trip:

• Sam's parents got a pool table with the house. We got to play a lot of pool.
• I surprised my siblings. Our van was the giveaway but it was still fun to see their faces!
• We had breakfast at Wecks and ate probably the hottest green chile. You know it was hot if Sam had to scrape it off his burrito!
• We had our Kartchner dinner at Texas Roadhouse. My mom was really happy we came since some will be gone for Christmas. This way all of us could be here.
• We got to see Jessica's cute "new" house! I'm glad it worked out for them to buy Sam's parents' old house! The schools are great and there is a lot more space for the kids so that's nice.
• We also got to eat steak with them on Thanksgiving. I'm glad we got to spend time with them because they will be gone for Christmas too!
• We probably got Sam's family sick. We were on the tail end of our sicknesses when we came to Albuquerque, but I guess we were still contagious. I feel really bad about it still. It's no fun being sick at the busiest time of year!

We will be making the same trek soon for Christmas! Hopefully we'll get to do more and see more people!

PS. This is Kiley if you can't tell ;)