{"id":733,"date":"2011-12-04T22:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T05:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelorigans.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2011-12-04T22:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T05:59:35","slug":"thanksgiving-re-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Re-Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to go into every little detail about our Thanksgiving trip up to King City\/Lockwood because I don’t think you really care what the kids ate for lunch or what pajamas they wore at night.<\/p>\n

Soooo, we left San Diego around 8pm to embark on our 6 hour drive.\u00a0 The reason we left so late was so the kids would sleep the whole way and we wouldn’t have to make a ton of potty stops for them.\u00a0 Not even 10 minutes into our trip and we start hearing, “Momma, I go peepee.”\u00a0 Great, we just discovered the problem with having potty trained kids on a long road trip.\u00a0 This was going to be a fun drive.\u00a0 We were able to find a place to pull over and then quickly get back on the road.\u00a0 The kids seemed to fall asleep pretty quickly after that.\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 Now, Pat will tell you how the drive took about 6 1\/2 hours, but I disagree.\u00a0 I only remember it taking about 3.\u00a0 He will either blame that on the fact that I fell asleep too, or on my bad memory.\u00a0 I’m going to go with the sleep.\u00a0 We get to Grandma Jane’s house in King City about 2:30am and when the kids woke up they were super excited to see where we were.<\/p>\n

The great thing about being in King City is that we get to sleep in!!!\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 We have both been running on the bare minimum of sleep since right before the kids were born.\u00a0 The fact that we get a chance to sleep in every so often is awesome!\u00a0 When we finally rolled out of bed the kids were eating pumpkin pancakes and playing with Grandma.\u00a0 There I go with details.\u00a0 Ok, as Pat will tell you, I have a pretty crummy memory, so I honestly have no idea what we did that day.\u00a0 I think that was the day I dragged Pat to go see Breaking Dawn.\u00a0 I guess I better explain myself.\u00a0 Yes, I like the movies.\u00a0 The books were shit, but I enjoy the movies and you can never have too many shirtless wolves.\u00a0 They are also great movies to make fun of while you are watching them because the acting is just sooooo bad.\u00a0 So, anyways, Pat will tell you he went kicking and screaming and I had to bribe him with all the candy we snuck in, but I think deep down he wanted to see Jacob without his shirt on too.<\/p>\n

The next day Pat and his mom went and played golf and I took the kids over to my mom’s school so she could say hi to the kids.\u00a0 I didn’t realize that there would be a catered lunch waiting for us in the teachers lounge.\u00a0 Yummy!!!\u00a0 After that we headed back to Grandma Jane’s house.\u00a0 Later that afternoon Jane had a little gathering of friends so we got to be social and have some good food.\u00a0 Pat’s friend Jeremy was there and I got to see my friend Mandy.\u00a0 The kids were a big hit, as usual.\u00a0 Later that night Pat went over to Jeremy’s house and played cards all night.\u00a0 This is a little tradition they do every time they are in town at the same time.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday we headed out to my parents house in Lockwood.\u00a0 The kids pretty much just hung out and played in the tree house with grandma and grandpa.\u00a0 That evening things got a little interesting.\u00a0 See, every Thanksgiving my dad and I make the pumpkin pies.\u00a0 I will brag a little here and say they are like eating a little slice of heaven with a cloud on top.\u00a0 Getting the pies to that point can be a little tricky.\u00a0 My dad is in charge of the crust and I do the filling.\u00a0 It seems like every year things go terribly wrong in the crust department and it always ends up on the floor in what’s know as a crust tantrum.\u00a0 I know where Jack gets it from.\u00a0 This year was no different, but in the end we always make it work and the end result is divine.\u00a0 I’m sure my dad would jump in if he were here and say how the kids helped and threw off his measurements or maybe it was because Ella was the one reading the cookbook.\u00a0 Pat’s dad and Dorothy showed up after they pie episode so the next morning when the kids woke up they had a house full of grandparents!!<\/p>\n

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Thanksgiving:\u00a0 Well, the kids played outside, My mom cooked, the grandpas BBQ’d the bird, Grandma Jane showed up, Lunchbox ate cat shit, we ate a kickass dinner, ate heavenly pie, bathed the kids, and went to bed.\u00a0 That about covers it.<\/p>\n

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Friday morning started off with me working.\u00a0 I had a photoshoot for two adorable toddlers.\u00a0 It was so much fun because after the shoot, the twins got to come out and play with some new friends.\u00a0 It was the sweetest thing ever.\u00a0 They showed their new friends how to feed the sheep and gave them the tour of the treehouse.\u00a0 They were all holding hands.\u00a0 Seriously, the sweetest thing EVER!\u00a0 The new friends taught the twins all about driving the power wheels my parents had.<\/p>\n

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That night Pat and I got to escape the house and head to The Waystation.\u00a0 Let me back up a little bit here.\u00a0 Lockwood is one of those “towns” that is in the middle of nowhere with about 400 people.\u00a0 There is a tiny store no bigger that a shoebox, a K-8 school, and a post office that is smaller than the shoebox store.\u00a0 It also has the Waystation.\u00a0 It is a bar, restaurant, pool hall, and general hangout place for all the local drunks.\u00a0 So why were we there?\u00a0 Aside from it being the only place to get a drink, I got to meet up with a bunch of friends I’ve known since kindergarten!\u00a0 Growing up, these guys were among my best friends.\u00a0 There were only about 12 of us who when all the way from Kindergarten through 8th grade together.\u00a0 and half of them were able to make it that night.\u00a0 We had a bunch of drinks and played some pool.\u00a0 Going back to the whole Waystation thing, this is the type of place that has $1 Shock Tops on tap during the happy hour and $2.50 after happy hour.\u00a0 There is a reason everyone goes there to drink.\u00a0 I guess we also were there on karaoke night.\u00a0 There was only one person who could actually sing.\u00a0 We wanted to take up donations from people to pay the others not to sing because they were just so bad.\u00a0 Oh, and one guy was singing Nirvana, while sitting on the floor drinking a beer.\u00a0 Classy place.\u00a0 The truth is, we had such a fun night.\u00a0 It was really great catching up with everyone.\u00a0 This will be a regular thing the next time we are all in town at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Saturday morning came way too soon and started off with another photo shoot.\u00a0 After that we just hung out at the house and then packed up the car.\u00a0 We headed into Paso for dinner with my parents and a side trip to the candy store for the kids.\u00a0 My dad payed them each a nickle, or “ni-no” as Ella says it, for each nail they picked up.\u00a0 They got to take their ni-nos to the candy store and each buy a small bag of jelly beans.\u00a0 After that we headed home after making a million potty stops.<\/p>\n

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