The Thanksgiving before the Thanksgiving

In an effort to make things nice and fair, we alternate holidays so that nobody can fuss about anyone getting more time than anyone else. When one side of the family gets Thanksgiving and New Years, the other side will get Christmas and Easter. The following year each side will swap holidays and so on and so forth.

This year, my side of the family had Thanksgiving and New Years. The plan, was of course, to spend Thanksgiving with Nana and PopPop wherever they were planning on being but when we found out that GG was going to be down at Nana's house and that Thanksgiving was going to be up at the lake in PA, we decided to give Thanksgiving celebrations to another member of my side of the family - Uncle Brandon and his crew down in VA! Uncle Brandon and Aunt Elizabeth were so kind and invited us AND our dog down for dinner and we happily accepted the invitation. Trouble was, Nana really wanted us to be with her! So... we came up with a solution that solved all problems - we planned on TWO Thanksgivings!!!

It worked out nicely.

1. We got a chance to see Nana and PopPop AND GG while she was in town
2. We get to eat TWO delicious Thanksgiving feasts (and we didn't have to cook either one - HA!) (Well, we contributed side dishes but that hardly counts, right?)

Here are some lovely pictures that I took with PopPop's Nikon as I left my little rebel at home (stupidly) thinking that it was unncessary for me to bring it! It's hard to believe that I spend some of my time being a professional photographer. Seriously! I would have missed all of these great moments...

Tomorrow is our second Thanksgiving and despite the fact that we've definitely had our fill of feasting already - all of us Ellwoods are REALLY excited to eat again! We've got so much to be thankful for having enough family to be able to have two entirely separate Thanksgivings. :)