Tales from the Treviños: Thanksgiving 2011

This year our Thanksgiving plans were somewhat amended due to Nathan catching some kind of virus on Tuesday. We were supposed to travel down to Lolo's house on Wednesday morning and come back to Katy on Friday morning. I got called by his school Tuesday afternoon because he had a fever and, sure enough, when we got home he had 102.6. We called the nurse and she suggested we take him in for an appointment the next day since they would be closing for the holiday...just in case. Of course by the time we went to the doctor his fever was down to 100.1 and he had no other obvious symptoms. Our awesome pediatrician suggested we wait til morning to decide what to do (as far as travelling down to South Texas). His fever went up to 103.6 that evening, but by morning it was down and he was acting like he was feeling much better. Soooo, in the interest of family harmony (and so Nathan could spend his first Thanksgiving with his Lolo, Momo, Popo and Aunt Ashley, among others) we left Thursday morning and made it in time for Thanksgiving lunch (which was amazing!!!). Ashley made the turkey (moist and yummy), homemade rolls (from scratch) and the pecan pie while Lori made the stuffing (particularly good this year), sweet potatoes, macaroni, giblet gravy and green beans (with appropriate supervision from Momo). Later that afternoon we went and spent a few hours with Jimmy's Grandmama, who also lives in Sinton. Nathan had a great visit with his Daddy's side of the family, so I was really glad we made the trip. Of course I forgot the camera, but borrowed these pictures from Lori from the visit.

Lolo reading Santa Paws!

Popo with Nathan

Grandma and Grandpa with their grandkids

Friday afternoon we drove back to Katy and arrived at home just ahead of Mom (aka Grammy) and Cantrell. This was the first Thanksgiving in years that my dad's side of the family has all come together for the holiday. Usually at least one family unit (including us some years) is missing due to scheduling conflicts, so it was so wonderful to have everyone under the same roof! We all got together at my Uncle Skipper and Aunt Dayle's house in west Houston on Saturday for a late lunch and some good family time. The food, as usual, was fantastic! Uncle Skipper fried a turkey and there was also ham, stuffing, sweet potatoes, fresh fruit salad, brocolli and cauliflower salad, homemade rolls (grandma's), cranberry sauce, gravy, stuffed celery, deviled eggs (Kim's), chipped beef cream cheese ball (Margaret Davis' recipe) and cheddar-jalapeno dip (Aunt Dayle's). On the dessert bar there was pumpkin pie (Cynthia), pecan pie (Skipper), apple-cranberry pie (Cynthia), burbon balls (Kevin), snickerdoodles (Kevin) and macaroons (Cynthia). As the little ones ran around and the less mobile ones got passed from person to person, we all kind of marveled at the number of kids that have been added to the Bryan family brood in the past few years. My mom now has five grandchildren...crazy! Even with all the people and noise and activity (and picture taking), Nathan did really great and we were all exhausted when we made it back to the house. This has been the best Thanksgiving I've had in a long time. I love my wonderful family!