Thanksgiving Recap in Pictures

I feel like I've been away from the internet for YEARS.  We've spent the last 5 days in general Chicago area with my family. My parents wireless wasn't working and their computer is about a 1,000 years old. The internet could wait while I caught up with my family and friends over a glass of wine (or 4).

So much happened during our trip.  Max had a great time meeting 4738247392 new family members while Brett and I had a great time stuffing our faces with yummy food only found in the Chicago area! This was the first time my brothers, sister and I were in the same state at once since Thanksgiving of 2008!

 Here's a photo summary of our great trip!

We had to bundle Max up as he hadn't ever experienced such ridiculous weather

Regardless of clothing, he loved the Brookfield Zoo!

Actually, not so much.

Dylan and Aunt Emmy enjoyed the fake boat ride

Max was unimpressed by the gorilla. 

But the sea lions kicked ass!

Dylan roared at the tiger but it ignored him. 

Nothing says games with the grandparents like multiple glasses of red wine. 

And in this family, when you're a pill, you get put on the fridge. 

Max was ready to tree hunt in his tree hunting sweater! He also was consistently amused by Uncle Brian

Cousins!

The poor child froze during our trip to Indiana to find and cut down Christmas trees. 

Accidental overexposure looking AWESOME!

Testing to see what the angel would look like!

Brunch with Great Gram and more family.

Max got to meet a new friend while I caught up with an old one!

Thanks for the book and hat, Ingram Family!!

 The whole trip was a success!  Max was great on the plane and better behaved then some of the adults.  I was so glad to not have "that kid" on my first trip with baby!  Despite the great trip, all three of us are glad to be back home (and out of the cold!)

Now, time to break out those Christmas decorations.

Retreat

I'm on retreat this weekend. Here:

For the next two mornings, when I wake up, I'll sit on the porch with my coffee and enjoy this view:

 I'm sure my time at the beach will be filled with prayer and contemplative meditation.  Hopefully I'll write some blog post that will change peoples lives.  Or, I'll just spend most of my time doing this:

I might feel ambitious and take a run past this:

 But lets be honest.  On this retreat, I'll spend most of my time doing this:

See you Monday!

Wordless Wednesday: The Great American Road Trip

Long long ago, before marriage and kids, Brett and I took a road trip from Savannah to the Grand Canyon . We hiked into the canyon (only part of the way), crawled back up and then slowly limped our unfit asses back to Savannah.  Here's a several thousand few old memories from the best trip ever, in no particular order