Thanksgiving

Life doesn’t get much better than spending a lazy Thanksgiving afternoon completely stuffed from a DELICIOUS lunch, watching football, playing boardgames, and continuing to snack on a variety of homemade desserts with our best couple-friends!!  On Thanksgiving morning, we drove down to San Diego for the holiday.  It was a beautiful drive down the coast (minus the traffic around Camp Pendleton).  Our friends, Jenny and Brian, live in La Jolla and hosted Thanksgiving.  Our friends, Eric and Michele, drove down from Playa del Rey; Baby Vo’s future friend Evelia’s parents, Jeff and Dana, drove down from Santa Monica with little Evy; and our friends, Preston and Ashley, drove all the way down from Reseda.  Add in Jenny and Brian’s good friends, Luke and Becca, and you have a packed house!  It was a potluck style meal with Jenny and Brian supplying the turkey and main side dishes.  As is to be expected, we all ate WAY too much and went to bed so early that you’d think we were 90 years old.

Although Steve and I aren’t telling anyone about Baby Vo yet, I spent much of the holiday just wanting to blurt it out.  With the large crowd, it was easy to avoid taking a glass of wine or soda and since I’m not feeling nauseous at all, there really wasn’t anything to hide.  Steve referenced his usual “when we are ready to have a baby” line (i.e., “When it’s our turn to have a kid, we’re still going to be cool parents.”) a few times.  I don’t think anyone had a clue.

The day after Thanksgiving, we went to Balboa Park to enjoy the weather.  Steve took Christmas pictures of Evy, which I just have to post.  She is seriously one of the cutest babies ever!!  (And Steve is an amazing photographer.  Our kids are probably not going to be grateful when they are young, but I can’t wait for him to take pictures of them!)