a jersey thanksgiving...

this year we went to new jersey for thanksgiving. how fun is that?!? well, a bunch of fun... wednesday morning before the sun came up we bundled up the baby and drove 11.5 hours across ohio, west virginia, pennsylvania and new jersey to spend the holidays with grandma and grandpa dale, cindy and jeff, their new baby kaelyn, and about 45 of cheryl's cousins. we ate good, we played good and we slept good. it was a good thanksgiving holiday. annabel spent lots of time playing on her mat and made some big strides in her development. she got way better at holding her head up in just a few short days. and with all the grandparents, aunts and cousins playing with her all the time she probably set a record for number of smiles in a single week. and then after three full days of hanging out in jersey we packed back up the baby and all our stuff and drove back to ohio. the weather was much better on that trip and we actually cut an hour and a half off the trip time. on the way back we even got to stop and see a giant quarter on the lincoln heritage highway in everett, pa. we drove by a giant ice cream sundae building but between you and me, it was pretty lame. you won't be seeing any photos of that. :)

we put up a bunch of new photos from the week so click here (or the photos) to see the album.