Thanksgiving-Weekend-O-Fun

This year we were lucky enough to be with some friends and family.
We headed down on Wednesday to Washington D.C. to stay one night with Meg and Dave, then early Thursday morning we took off to Richmond, VA to spend the holiday with Bryce and Maddy Egbert, they are in their first year of med school. They are our really good friends. We had a lot of fun together.

These were our thankful turkeys.

Luke and Britton will be good friends one day.
On this trip...well Luke was for some strange reason terrified of Britton.
When Britton would walk by he liked to watch him, but the second he got close or barely touched him Luke would scream! I dont' know why because he has never acted like that before. He was very sensitive over the weekend.
Maybe because Britton is bigger than him and walks toward him like a little zombie! (He's still learning to walk, so he walks with his arms out in front of him, hehe it's so cute).

On to the turkey!

Bryce was the turkey man.
He put the whole thing together, or pulled it all apart I guess and cut it up and it tasted wonderful.

The dinner table (and Luke).

Bryce cutting the turkey.

Us patiently waiting to eat an amazing meal!
MMmmm... I'm dreaming about it right now. It was SO good!
I don't know why Matt is making this silly face, he wouldn't stop.

Later that night we gave the boys a bath.

Luke wasn't so sure about taking a bath with someo one else.
He looks a little worried.

But they sure are cute!!!!

They became better friends later on in the trip.


On Friday we went on a little tour of Richmond and saw some amazing, beautiful, HUGE, colonial style homes. They were beautiful!! They were extremely close together and had like 7 chimneys. It reminded us of Mary Poppins.
After we went to Maymont Park to play around for a little while.
It was a beautiful park that was once a plantation. It had an old mansion and a lot of land. It's now opened up as a public park it also has a free petting zoo, but we didn't get to go.

Britton is turning one on the 13th of December.
He's about six weeks older than Luke.

They learned to share even!
(or at least it looked like it).

This picture was so funny.
Some how my camera took a in action-clear picture. It made us laugh.

Dave and Meg came with us and we were so happy they were there. After leaving Bryce and Maddy's house on Saturday we drove back up to D.C. They showed us some even bigger houses that were also extremely beautiful! It's alwasy fun to see them. We went to a park too, it was very pretty, but quite a bit colder.
Meg cooked us a yummy dinner and we watched a Clark favorite movie "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying." It's funny, a little weird, but good. It's an old musical.
Sunday we went to church with Meg and Dave and then headed home.
It was a LONG drive home. It was supposed to take 5-6 hours (what it took to get there), but the traffic was awful, it was raining the entire time and a bit foggy. It ended up taking 8 hours. Not to mention Luke threw up in the back seat. I felt so bad because we were on a toll road so we couldn't get off for about 20 more miles. I cleaned him up as good as I could, but he was so tired he fell asleep in wet clothes. We ended up getting off and changing his clothes. So it felt really good to get home that night!

Thanks Bryce and Maddy for having us stay with you over the holiday weekend. We had a wonderful time!!!