Kansas City, There We Went

So I'm going back a bit but we missed telling you about Thanksgiving. Showed up at Midway Airport at 5:15am, stood in line for 2+ hours only to find our flight cancelled. ROAD TRIP!! So we jumped in the car and drove there.

Now, we forgot to bring the camera so we don't have all the pics I'd like to share with you, but I did want to show you some pics of our really good friends there.

Yes, Grandma and Grandpa and Nonie and Aunt Erica and the whole gang was there, but there was a special place in our hearts for these two little fellas.

DISCLAIMER: Buddy, Nana's dog, if you are reading this, I urge you to turn away in an attempt to save your heart from being broken.

This is Trevor, who Mae was slightly obsessed with.

Kisses...

Hugs...

And a whole lotta love...

Mae had to go potty so I actually get five seconds with Trevor, too.

And this is Jesse, Aunt Erica's newest addition to her family... he is a giant, probably the size of 17 Mabels put together. It was kind of like having a black bear in the house.

And here is a great picture of Nonie and me. She is not a dog, though sometimes Dad calls her one; as in, "Hey Nonie, you old dog, what are you having for breakfast?" So there's that.

Thankful

So I went to Kansas City for Thanksgiving and we had quite the Thanksgiving weekend.

Spent a lot of time with my cousin, Kameron - first playing Pet Shops and then eating Cake Pops (rhymed that like Wu Tang).

Got into Nonie's makeup a little bit, went Edward Scissorhands on the gang.

Mae posed with Dad, then Mom, then Nonie, then Mom and Dad together, complete with birthday hats.

Speaking of Mabel Jane, she spent 98% of the trip either following the wiener dogs around, talking to the wiener dogs or talking about them. At one point we realized we could probably leave her home alone for 2.5 hours and she and the wiener dogs would be fine.

Trevor even went so far as to read her a book.

Then it was on to shuffleboard. Aunt Erica has a regulation size shuffleboard and it was the main hub of activity for the week. Uncle Jim took Grandpa down and I had winners so I was up next.

I surveyed the board, which was awfully long...

Measured with my internal distance monitor and let her rip...

And this is where it stopped. No joke, this picture is not photoshopped, we did not stage this, this is honestly where my throw stopped. And then I decided I would make like MJ (not my sister and not the "Billie Jean" guy, the other MJ) and retire on top (the 1993 and '98 version).

Anyway, if you ask me what I'm thankful for, I will tell you. There are lots of people and things I'm thankful for, but mostly I'm thankful for my binky. Just bein' honest.