Off to Hooper: Thanksgiving 2016

Our Thanksgiving themed Poetry Tea-Time.

Stratton lovin on Baby Cal

My two favorite Tanners, Tanner Ross Lemmon and Cal Tanner Swan

Cal and Logan

Auntie Bri, Emree, Abi, Del, and Ollie playing with Snapchat filters

Lincoln's been really into photo-bombing lately. 

I tried to put Cal to sleep in the Moses basket, but he wanted none of that.

Adelia enjoying the feast.

Aaron making an impressive turkey with his 3D printing pen.

Lately I feel like I’ve been carrying the world on my back. Today I set the world down for a bit, packed up my kids and drove to Hooper for a much needed change of scenery and routine. Hello Thanksgiving break, not a moment too soon. 

I love Hooper. No matter how long I’ve been gone, it always feel like home. You can breath in Hooper. 

The kids and I headed out Wednesday afternoon for my mom’s house. Aaron had to work, so he caught the train and came later. Jackson and Stratton came over Wed. night and had pizza with us to celebrate Aaron’s birthday. 

All three of my brothers came over on Thanksgiving day, and I felt like we got to spend some quality time together while the kids played. I met Kyle’s new baby, Stewart Logan, for the first time. He smells like heaven and has a head full of delicious black hair that’s to die for. He and Cal got along well, haha. They’ll be bffs I’m sure. 

Aaron and the kids, cousins, and uncles played Aaron with the 3D printing pen he got for his birthday. He made a turkey for the occasion. :) 

Dinner was fantastic. My mom and Kerry never disappoint. They also fixed us “hot breakfast” (waffles, pancakes, etc) every morning we were there, which my kids happen to think is about the greatest thing ever. (I only ever make those kinds of things for dinner. I’m not much of a morning person and my cooking, or the lack thereof, reflects it.) 

On Friday we ventured out to do some Black Friday shopping at Smith and Edwards, one of my favorite one-of-kind army surplus stores. They have everything. But you have to be able to find it. It reminds me of a thrift store in that way. Haha! I like to get my Christmas candy there, because they have big bins of all sorts of cool kinds, and they sell them by the piece (i.e. 20 pieces for a dollar, etc.) So you don’t have to buy a huge bag of candy that’s all the same. You can get a wide variety without going bankrupt. 

Friday night my mom and Kerry introduced us to the BBC’s Sherlock series. Oh. My. Gosh. I’m a Sherlock Holmes fan girl anyway, so OF COURSE I’m now an addict to this series and need to see every single episode like now! Good news for me, VidAngel streams it! Yippee!! BTW, if you haven’t seen the commercial Lisa Valentine Clark did for Chatbooks, you need to watch it immediately. (That was a random change of direction mid-paragraph, but the people who produce commercials for VidAngel also produced the Chatbooks commercial, so it made sense in my mind, that abrupt switch from one to the other.) 

Unfortunately for me, it eventually got to be Saturday afternoon, and we had to drive home. The claustrophobia hit me like a brick wall as soon as we got back to our house. Ugh. What is it with me lately? I like my house. I have so many great plans for it. But for some reason being in it right now is stifling. 

Here’s your mountain back, Krystal; party’s over. 

Love you Hooper, we’ll come back soon.