It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!  But first things first – hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!  Whether you were visiting family, hosting, or just enjoying a relaxing weekend at home, I hope it was great.  Hubby and I just returned from my parents’ place in upstate New York and it was quite the whirlwind weekend.  I ran in the local Turkey Trot, met my high school BFF’s baby for the first time (TOO cute) and squeezed in time with two aunts, three grandparents, one brother and three friends.  Yowsa – busy weekend.  Here are some highlights…

Table at my mom’s house all set for Thanksgiving dinner.  Gobble, gobble.

My brother whipped up homemade New England clam chowder with clams he harvested himself from the Great Salt Pond on Block Island. 

Look at my handsome husband waiting patiently for Thanksgiving noms!

Black Friday fun – meeting up with my favorite aunt in Saratoga Springs for lunch.  Joc, your mom says hi!  Lunch with my aunt and tea with hubby’s aunt was better than shopping any day.

And the fun continued on Friday evening when hubby and I met up with our friend Seth for dinner out and a jaunt through the holiday lights in Albany’s Washington Park.  This is a holiday tradition that Seth and I started ten years ago – WOW – when we were juniors at Cornell, and hubby joined us for the first time in 2005 (our first holiday season as a married couple).  Dinner and lights in the park with Seth is something hubby and I look forward to all year long and it’s always a blast.  We talk and laugh like old friends should, and it never seems as though we live 300 miles apart.  Luv ya, Seth!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!