Thanksgiving 2012.

Well, we kicked off our Thanksgiving break with an old fashioned elementary school dance party..

Maybe not so old fashioned. Welcome to Baton Rouge.

After getting all my little crazies on their buses, I practically ran away from the school to freedom (actually to my car where I zoomed out of the neighborhood and into sitting traffic, it was a little anticlimactic). Home free for a week!

William's parents were here for the weekend so we enjoyed some good food and some really good football.

William still had a few days of school so I basically cleaned the house, ran errands, did all the laundry, and twiddled my thumbs. Finally on Tuesday night we headed to Monroe for my first Morris Thanksgiving! I sure missed my family, but loved being with William's family. I seriously lucked out on the in-laws. And we were all together for the first time since our wedding, which was a total whirlwind.

First Thanksgiving activity? Bingo, obviously. It was hilarious. Haley has the best ideas. We had daubers, bingo sheets, the whole shebang. Patti and Christopher even won door prizes!

I volunteered to make homemade rolls and was really proud of how they turned out! Thank you Pioneer Woman. I accidentally made about 100 of them.

Had some serious bonding time with the cat and the chair, watching Hallmark Holiday movies while William was upstairs watching football with his dad.

I am so grateful for all of my blessings. Especially this year when I made the best decision of my life to marry the best man in the world. I am grateful for families and temples and the plan of salvation. I am grateful for our little home in Louisiana and for employment. I am grateful that I know who my Savior is and for everything he's done.

And of course my brother sent me this picture just to rub in that I was missing out! Love them.