Thanksgiving 2025 part 2

 The 2025 Thanksgiving crew! Complete with our favorite Thanksgiving food shirts!

The butter and rolls crowd - 

The mashed potatoes and gravy crew!

2 cute little deviled eggs cousins, almost exactly the same height. And Delaney repping our Maryland flag with her colors. 

The best trio - desserts!

The green bean posse!

And the miscellaneous sides. 

Getting a group together for a picture is always, always an adventure. 🤣

Thanksgiving 2025

 I love a big family thanksgiving. Sandy made me a fancy salmon lox bagel and it was soooo good! Love her!

I don’t remember where we acquired these dumb pilgrim hats, but I’m so glad we brought them to NY. 

Amy had a puzzle/art table out for people to enjoy. 

We went for a family hike that morning and then watched the parade. 

We’d made pies Wednesday night and we all had a job for Thursday but with so many people it was pretty simple. 

They invited a few friends so we had big team games that were very fun. Amy also got us each our favorite Thanksgiving food shirts. 

Christian and Jeanne took some pictures for their Christmas cards. 

So proud of these guys. 

Partying all day is hard for precious 4-year-olds, so he climbed into auntie henna’s lap and fell right to sleep. 

It was a delicious thanksgiving. We have so many blessings to be thankful for. 

November 25th-26th

Flashback to Thanksgiving weekend! On Tuesday we headed up to New York for a Seacruisin’ Turkey Day!

Damian wanted to leave early and I wanted to leave late so we met in the middle and left at the worst possible time  I knew I wanted to leave late but didn’t really even remember why. Until we hit the worst Thanksgiving  traffic. 😩

We brought the. It’s in our car which was fine except that they didn’t have any activities. 

We left around 11 and hit traffic in New Jersey and it was bad and everyone was a little grumpy and then it started raining and it was just a terrible drive. One of our worst. 

But we made it and had dinner together and we let the festivities begin!

The next day we all braved the Croton to Union Station train for some float watching city enjoying! These 2 cousins!

Henry’s second time in the city!

We each got a number and did many a count off to make sure we didn’t lost anyone. 

We did all our usuals - Starby’s for hot chocky and lots of walking. 

We found a cute hole in the wall pizza place for lunch and found some bleachers and it was the nicest little rest. 

Central Park pic!

We decided not to wait in the float lines this year. We walked outside of the fence so our view wasn’t as good and we didn’t see as many floats as last year, but it worked for our group. 

Our boys were total troopers! No complaints!

Henry got passed around and also had no complaints. He’s so loved!

We missed christian and Jeanne and Ruby, but Jeanne had to work. 

It was a lovely warmish day. 

Dancing?

We all took turns in the trees. 

We stared making our way home around 4:30.

Sandy had been having some knee pain so she stayed home and made us a lovely dinner. 

That’s what I call a good day!

December 19th

Only one more day to catch me up on this segment of December. We got some amazing carolers one night. We have such talented friends!

I love this picture of my grandma. 

And not to be outdone, my grandpa. To bring things back to today, I’m pretty sure I/everyone has had the wrong woman listed as his mother and I’m pretty sure I just found the right one. Fitting to have this picture here today. ❤️

And my mom and dad on their wedding day - April 1, 1972. 

My mom, dad, and same dancing grandma holding the littlest baby Lu. Remember when we could go right up to the gate when we took someone to the airport?

So the last day of school before Christmas break the kids got out 2 hours early and the Darrow’s hosted their annual Christmas party. 

It’s so good every year! They are so generous and amazing and I’m so grateful for their family!

We were not big Price is Right winners,  it some years are just that way. 

Pretty sure our gifts got chosen way towards the end again too, so clearly I need to spruce up my wrapping/bagging game. 

What a blessing it is to gather! Literally will never take it for granted again. 

Some might criticize my impulse purchases, but 9 times out of 10 I don’t regret them. 

And finally, a little Rainbow Ellie Sparkles spa action to put a bow on this part of December 2025 blogging.