Thanksgiving weekend

We hosted Thanksgiving for the first time this year, and I put Kevin in charge of the turkey, because I can't stand touching meat with bones in it. He was so excited and studied up on the best way to make it for at least a week in advance.
This is Kali grossed out by the sight of a uncooked turkey

He decided to do a bacon wrapped turkey it turned out delicious. We had Kevin's aunt and uncle over along with the Pinney's our good friends. It was nice but it is just not the same away from my family.

We have been wanting to go out of town for weeks now but we had soccer every weekend so this was our first weekend free. We went up to Raleigh to do some fun activities. We get an awesome discount from Kevin's mom for the Marriott. We stayed at the Renaissance It was a $300.00 a night room that we got for $30.00. This is the bathroom with a tv in the mirror.

Our room
the view form the hotel, it was at the back of a shopping center.Friday night we went to Adventure Landing and played mini golf, laser tag, and arcade games
Saturday we went to Marbles a children's museum, it was pretty fun sadly my kids are getting to old for them and were kind of board.

There was one activity that the kids loved, we were fashion designers.
Kali's creation
Kevin's dog dressed as a cow
Kaden's hip hop dude
Tanner's token black guy
My hippie


Then Sunday we went to the Imax and saw The Christmas Carol in 3D. It was really cool all the computer animated stuff. But kind of scary, I would not recommend it for anyone under 6 I think. Then we went to Pullen Park, it was such a nice day, we got Subway and had a picnic by the pond.
The leaves are still so pretty.

We took a little train ride around the park. It was kind of small and very short but it sure was pretty. We had such a great relaxing weekend thanks for the idea Kevin.


On a not such a happy note, Tanner's arm that he broke last December has been giving him trouble. The scar's have not healed right and he has now got an infection that came bubbling through the skin this weekend. So we have to get the plates and screws taken out asap, so he is going in on Friday the 6th, for his third surgery, and hopefully last.