A Redneck Thanksgiving

I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving break and are ready to make this last little push to make it to Christmas break.

I was GA bound right after work on Wednesday and nothing hit me about the break until I clocked out and it all came over me. I was so excited yet felt like I had lots to get done before I flew out and was scared I would spend a lot of time in the DC traffic. I got home with 30 min to pack so I just threw the clothes I thought I would want in a bag and called it good. Aubrey was so kind and came to pick me up so I would not have to park my car at the airport and we were both prepared to sit in traffic, but there was hardly any! We had also planned some extra time for the long security lines and they were not bad at all. I walked right to get my ID checked and found my gate and had 3 hours to wait ;P I was very thankful though because I would rather be early then to be stressing about missing my flight.

 As soon as I got on that plane and in my seat I fell right to sleep and slept until I felt the wheels hit the ground, guess I was tired! Lolo and Ali (her younger sister) came to the airport to pick me up and it was so good to see them both again. We talked the whole way home and then after Lolo finished a few quick thanksgiving things we all fell asleep around 1am.

Thanksgiving morning I was up at 7am wide awake so I did my devotions, showered, and was ready for then day. At 9:30 I went and woke Lolo up and we just talked in her bed for a while until we needed to get up to help with the thanksgiving meal. Before we started cooking all of the girls went on a walk, it was such a beautiful day for one and to just be with the sisters was so nice. This is the only really nice picture that Lolo and I got together, but it is by far my favorite one! Then it was time to get back to the farm and start cooking. I hope Lolo got pictures of the food because sadly I did not. 

 We always have a lot of fun when we cook together, and we just had to take a picture in the kitchen like old times. Every part of the meal turned out perfect and just being all together at the table felt so good!

After our tummies were all full of food we played clue! We played it so many times over the break, but it was fun to just be able to play something together and spend time that was not in front on the TV.

Lolo's Grandma always buys the biggest bag of skittles when she comes to visit and it made my day when I saw that my favorite colors were left. When I use to live with them I knew I would never have to fight anyone else for the citrus flavored ones :) 

On Friday I went to the Cartey's house for a day and it was so much fun. It felt like I never left in some ways and in others it felt as if I had been gone forever. When I pulled up to the house the kids were all waiting outside for me and my heart started racing just with feeling how much they missed me. When I hugged Momma Jenn my eyes teared up and when Kalin hugged me she said "no, I am not done, I am not letting you go...ever". I had missed this family so very much!! 

Josh (their oldest) had a football game that night and Jenn was helping with the teams pregame meal and we all went to help. As we were pulling out to head home for a couple hours before the game started Jenn had asked me about what food I missed most and I said that I missed Cook Out's milkshakes...so she put on her blinker and she bought us all a milkshakes (yes, she spoils me). I got a coffee one and it was just as good as I remember them being! 

This is me and Colton! We were getting ready for the game and he wanted to take a picture with me :)

This is Kalin (she is so special to me, and was on the school soccer team I helped coach last semester), Hayley, and I at the pregame meal! I love these two girls so very much!

So I taught Colton how to snapchat so he was having WAY to much fun sending snaps to Kalin. We must have taken a million pictures but I had him save this one because it was a fav.  

At the football game! GO PRINCE!!!!

You can't really tell in the picture, but the moon was so big! 

This is Josh and I after the game! I was very proud of him, he gave his all and had a great game. They won 30-10 and it was so much fun to cheer them all on!

This was where Kalin and I slept! We had all gone to Ihop after the game and did not get home till 1:15am, but as girls always do we talked until 3ish! 

Then on Saturday I just got to hang out with the family and we even got to watch the GA football game. Momma Jenn and Keith made an AWESOME lunch to eat while watching the game! I did not want to leave AT ALL because I had such a great time! It was so very hard to say goodbye, but this family means so very much to me and I know that they will always be there for me and just because I live somewhere else I hope visits will become regular. I am hoping that Jenn and Kalin can come visit me sometime. 

This Sam and I                                         This is Colton and I

This is Momma Jenn and I!  She put so much time aside to just catch up with me and ask how I was really doing. I am sure that she could have done so many other things, but she really spent time to just talk with me! I can't really say in words how much she means to me because I don't think the works exist. I look up to her as a mom and I love how she loves she kids and makes sure that they have a great for the Lord! She will always be on my speed dial and I think I will always go to her for questions that I know she will understand! She means a lot to me and I was so very thankful that she put aside the time that I could be with her and the family!

Lolo picked me up from their house at 4 and then we went on our date. This was the only time we had just her and I and it was good. We went to a Asian restaurant that we wanted to try out and it was super yummy! 

Sunday was a perfect day full of randomness and fun! It was Lolo, Ali and I that went to church together and then we wanted to get some lunch at Five Guys! This picture sweet Ali posted on her snapchat story and I just had to steal it for my blog! 

I love Five Guys, I think that it is the place I like to go to when I am wanting something delicious and bad for me. I LOVE to go there just for the peanuts, honestly, and I did not even finish my burger because I had eaten so many peanuts. Then they laughed at me because I got some more to put into a bag to take home and they ended up being the perfect snack later that night! 

We did a lot together and I loved spending time with both these girls <3

After our lunch we wanted to just hang out so we went to the mall nearby and just walked around and window shopped.

We had way too much fun in Party City! We all got 15 pieces of candy for a dollar and ate it while we watched movies at the farm that night. It was such a random day.....those kind of days tend to be the best ones.

Overall a wonderful Thanksgiving break!!! I will tell you about my work week and my weekend in my next blog, there was just to much to fit into one blog! It will give you something to look forward to next week! 

Hope you all have a wonderful week! I love Christmas time and the feel of everything around it! Can't believe it is just a couple weeks away! 

With a Pinch of Love,

Lil'Chef