The Mileys: Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi all. Happy Thanksgiving! So this past week was Thanksgiving. We've had a good time... and we're really thankful for how great our life is.

On Thanksgiving Day, we started the day with Hannah doing some cooking in the kitchen while Raegan and I ate breakfast and watched the Macy's parade. Raegan seemed to like the parade. In fact she seemed almost in a trance watching the parade some of the time. I felt bad that Hannah couldn't just sit and watch the parade but she was preparing some really good food.

We drove down to Hannah's parents (Grammy & Granddad) house for lunch. Most of the family was there. Raegan remembered playing with tennis balls and Granddad the last time she was there. She didn't waste much time getting him to play with her again.

After we ate (lots of good food), Raegan went down for a nap and the grown-ups played the Pirates of the Caribbean Dice Game. I was the first to go out... so I wasn't really impressed with the game. But Hannah won and of course she thinks it's the greatest game ever.

Later Raegan got up from her nap. Aunt Jennifer taught Raegan some new dance moves. (or was Raegan teaching Aunt Jennifer?)

Uncle Jacob brought his cute new little puppy (Bailey). Even though Raegan loves "doggies", she seemed a little reluctant to pet Bailey. But none-the-less, here are some pictures of Raegan & Bailey. I have too many pictures of this... but there's just something cute about a little girl and a tiny little puppy.

The rest of the time we just hung-out. Raegan did like so many kids and spent a lot of the time on the phone talking to someone else. Wait a minute... no... she's on a remote... not a phone.

Even talking on the remote in both ears at times!

I'm actually not sure where this picture came from (other than Thanksgiving day)... but I'm posting it. We don't have all that many pictures of Hannah and me together like this. Also... due to the glare of the flash, it looks like I'm darker than Hannah. But I'm not in real life.

So Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and people always go crazy buying things at bargain prices. I had finally decided to buy a 46" LCD TV. Until I have a place to mount it on the wall, I decided I needed to get one that could fit in our entertainment cabinet. I found one at Sears that met all my criteria and was marked down to a crazy price for the DoorBuster sale. I had planned on getting there at 3:30am on Friday morning. Anyway... long story short, BestBuy priced it $1 cheaper on Monday so I ran down and bought it right then. I was in and out in like 5 minutes (after ordering online). So I didn't have to deal with the Black Friday craziness and I got my new TV! Now I just need to upgrade some of what feeds the signal to the TV.

See below... Raegan likes to watch Elmo on the new TV. (her hair is crazy from getting meatloaf & ketchup in her hair and then us trying to get it out of her hair.)

This is another shot of Raegan's crazy hair.

On Saturday, we spent the day watching Auburn lose to Alabama and UGA lose to GA Tech. Not the best outcomes... but the UGA game was exciting to watch. Anyway... in the midst of that, we started getting our Christmas decorations out. Once the games were over, we started Christmas music and drank eggnog. Then we let Raegan stand there as we turned on the lights to the tree for the first time (before adding ornaments). She really liked it and seemed to just be in a great mood. Check out her grinning below...

We let Raegan help put a couple ornaments on the tree but then she had to go to bed. Hannah and I finished decorating the tree Saturday night. I think it turned out nice. We just have to hope that Raegan understands the rules and that she doesn't try to pull ornaments off. So far, so good!