We are Thankful...

This year, like all the years past, was difficult. This was one of the biggest challenges i was not looking forward to after we got married.

THE HOLIDAYS!!

That's right, the holidays. I love spending time with my family, but this is becoming more and more difficult to accomplish. Before Juju and i got married, we did celebrate our holidays together, but we still each favored our own family for the most coveted days/hours. I would spend the majority of the day with my family and at the end of the night i would stop over by Jujus family. It worked out, and we would alternate the 75/25 split we had going on.

This thanksgiving was our first attempt at the Holidays as newlyweds. We had 3 stops to make in one night. Our schedule was supposed to go a little like this- Buelas 3-6, My sisters 6-9 and Irmas 9-12. (+/- travel time) Perfect right? 3 stops, 3 hours each, no one gets left out. Its safe to assume we didn't make it to Buelas on time, matter of fact no one really did. Buelas got off to a late and slow start. We made it to Buelas at about 5:20. When we got there, everyone was still 'mingling' and no one had yet began eating. We eat and picked our secret santa. Around 6:40 i got a call from my sister letting me know they were ready to start dinner.

We made it to my sisters around 7:15ish. I tried eating as much as I could. I was already a bit full from Buelas. The funny thing is that i knew i had to eat, or at least attempt to, at 3 other places, but i couldn't resist. My sister had some mouth watering cheese potatoes and i refilled plate a few times with those bad boys.

Here are a few pictures of Thanksgiving...

Here is Juju and I at my sisters house.

Here is Mom & Dad with the kids ( lol, us), This was at my sisters houseHere is my beautiful Mom and my Daddy-O. They rarely take pictures. I think this is a real nice one of them.

So I left my sisters house, (juju had been picked up by his parents earlier) ran back home to get the pies and headed to Irma's house. I got there 'bout 9:45ish. *Note, i will not be mentioning that Mon severely injured me with my own earring at Thanksgiving, I will also not mention that i was bleeding profusely and i need to seek the attending nurse (maria) for medical attention. =-D Again i helped myself to a big plate of food. We played UNO slam ( i think that's what it was called) and semi sorta watched a movie..... i say semi sorta because me and maria were busy cuddling with....

That's right you guessed it! Adriansito! Isn't he so cute? He kept running his little finders through my hair.

Here is a picture of the me catching everyone off guard with my camera.

We left Irma's house around midnight since Juju had to work the next day.

This thanksgiving was very surreal. We left Irma's house and went home, our home. I am very thankful for many things in my life, both big and small. I am thankful for the silliest things too, like socks and bubble baths. But this year i was thankful for the fact that i had too many places to go to. Although it was a headache and it was a lot of logistics to configure, it was worth it. I was thankful for having a wonderful husband by my side.