Thanksgiving Horseheads Style

Hope everyone is recovering from Thanksgiving like we are! We were able to make the trip to Horseheads for the holiday this year, which we haven't been able to do in awhile. I must say it was a very nice trip.

We got into town Thursday morning and pretty much immediately went to Gram's house for the Sullivan side turkey-fest. Owen didn't waste any time digging into the great food. Then he had some good playtime with all of the little boys running around.
Grace supervised and laughed at the boys of course!

The rest of the day was pretty low-key. We were able to relax a little bit. I went to my Mom's to help with the baking that night and Owen was adding his own spice to the festivities.

Dennis and I got the grand idea of going to Toys R Us when they opened at 10pm that night...not a good idea. We waited in line for an hour and a half in the rain surrounded by some interesting characters outside of the store. It starts raining about 20 minutes in and we are soaked, and the oh-so-helpful store people hand us an umbrella at the door! Thanks, would have been useful about an hour ago...We finally get into the store and realize that they are sold out of everything we're looking for and the line to checkout is at least another 1-hour wait. We left, wet and defeated. So much for Black Friday.

Mom had the great idea of having her dinner on Friday. Saved time and the button of our jeans. So we did the turkey thing again, and it was just as delicious. See that torch? Ma made creme brulee and didn't even burn the house down.

This meal ended as most Thanksgiving dinners do...
Down for the count, watching Christmas Vacation.

Saturday we went to Hollydays in the Square. It was freezing that day, but Owen looked pretty snuggled up. Natalie came too, which is a yearly tradition for us.

We all got to ride in with Santa on the Mark Twain float.
Natalie is almost as tall as Santa now!
Owen didn't even make it close to Santa's lap before he completely freaked out...oh well
The rest of the weekend was very fun. We did some shopping, had some of our favorite Horseheads treats (Pudgies) and even got to talk to Tim via Skype for quite awhile. All in all, it was a great trip. Thanks everyone!