Since it is almost Christmas, I definitely need to finish blogging about Thanksgiving!
On Friday, the kids slept in (for them). Once they got up, Brian and I headed out to do a little Black Friday shopping. I had seen that Sears had the Gladiator garage cabinets that Brian uses half off (making them only $100 each) so we ventured over there first. They had several left so we picked up two. They we much bigger than we expected and barely fit in the trunk of our Rav4. I even had to take out the carseats so we could move the back seat up some. More to come on how that all worked out for the drive home later.
Then we headed over to Dick's to pick up new running shoes and Radio Shack to get my mom a new router. Even though it was late for Black Friday, we got everything we wanted.
When we got back to Brian's parents' house, we all took the boys over to our favorite park in Cary.
When we got back to the house, Carter started feeling bad and was burning up. A nap and some Tylenol allowed him to play Twister though with GG (Brian's mom).
My sister and Mike headed back up to DC after lunch and the rest of us hung out around the house the rest of the day since Carter was pretty puny.
Luckily Carter's fever was gone the next morning and he felt better because we had planned to meet up with some friends at Marbles, the children's museum in downtown Raleigh. We went there last year and loved it and it was still just as good. Even better, Rylan got to enjoy it this year!
We met up with Anakah and Johnny (Brian went to high school and college with them) and their kids, Fin and Lainey (who we had never met). Cass (who Brian also went to school with), her husband (Jeremy), and their son (Liam) were able to meet us there as well. Random ... Lainey and Liam were born on the same day.
We managed to get a group picture of the kids: Liam, Carter, Rylan, Lainey, Fin (and Anakah)
And I got a cute picture of Rylan and Lainey ...
It was great to see our old friends and meet everyone's kids. Everyone had a lot of fun and I hope we continue to meet up at least once a year!
After the museum and naps, we took the kids back to the park and then all went out to dinner. Once we got the kids to bed for the night, Brian and I worked on packing the car. We managed to fit everything in but had to turn Rylan's carseat around so he was forward-facing. Plus, we normally have Charlotte in a soft-crate but instead she got a small spot in the trunk to hang out in. Rylan liked her being there at first, but was not a fan when he was trying to eat a snack!
The drive back was a lot worse than the drive to Raleigh. It rained steadily as soon as we entered Tennessee and there were a ton of wrecks that slowed us down a lot. It was painful, but we made it and the kids did great (considering how long they were in the car). However, we aren't so sure we'll do that drive on the Sunday after Thanksgiving again!
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