We headed to Thanksgiving dinner in Lincoln Nebraska this year. Ryan and I had to work a half day then we drove up Wednesday afternoon. Jake and Becky came but had to be back for a wedding so we celebrated Thanksgiving Wednesday night. It tasted just as good as it would have on Thursday. Actually better because I didn’t cook it and food always tastes better to me if I don’t have to make it myself. I don’t think the only reason for this is that I wasn’t the cook.
We played games and hung out as much as we could with Becky and her family before they left.
The rest of the weekend was very laid back and relaxing. None of us went Black Friday shopping. At least in the beginning of the day. Some of us may have wandered around a bit in the afternoon to see if there was any amazing deals left.
We had our traditional dinner at Pizza Ranch when we were all tired of eating turkey leftovers for a few days. I don’t get tired of eating leftovers but everyone else does. I am still an advocate for making one big meal at the beginning of the week and eating it the rest of the week but I am alone in this amazing idea.
The movies were the center of our entertainment. There has been a dry spell for a while on good movies but they are coming out at least weekly now for the next month or so.
Lauren and I took the girls to the new Frozen movie. It was great. We all loved it. The story and the music was great.
The boys went to Midway. It was given a good report. I wanted to see it but will watch it later because Lauren and I went to a movie called JoJo Rabbit instead. I had no idea what it was even about but Lauren said she had heard good things. We were both very concerned after the first 10 minutes of the movie. It had awful written all over it but then there was a little bit of a plot/view point explanation and it got much better. I actually ended up liking it.
Ross, Lauren, Ryan and I went to Knives Out. It was also a good movie. I like mystery/detective movies and shows and this was a nice spin on that genre.
Lauren and I took the kids to a fun trampoline place for a few hours one of the days too.
There was a threat of snow all weekend long but it didn’t happen between us and home so we were able to get home without driving through a blizzard like we did last year.
Thanksgiving was later in the month than usual this year so Christmas started coming fast as soon as it was over. It is a busy but fun time of year.