A Very Avra Thanksgiving...

We Avra's always have a busy holiday season. All of our family lives out of town, so holidays = lots of travel for us. It is always so much fun visiting with all of our family and friends, but it is totally exhausting. This year was especially fun (and exhausting) with Austyn :) The Sunday before Thanksgiving was the Avra Family's celebration in Conway. We left Friday night after work and got to Conway around 9:30. In case you don't know, we are HUGE Harry Potter fans and the second to last movie came out the Friday before Thanksgiving. Brian's parents were so fabulous and kept Austyn on Saturday afternoon so Brian and I could go see it!!!! This is what we came home to, ha! She must have had a blast with Lolly and Pop.

Sadly, I didn't take any pictures of the actual dinner, but let me just say, it was fabulous! We stuffed our faces full of DELICIOUS food (probably why there are no pics). We were only missing 4 people from the entire Avra family!!

Here is Austyn in one of her cute new winter coats. Every time I put it on her, she cries and it makes me laugh because she looks like the little boy from A Christmas Story. Poor baby. Our next stop was my hometown, Fort Smith. The White family was so amazing and invited Brian, Austyn, mom, and I to join them for Thanksgiving Day. Ironically, it's the one day that we didn't have plans. We headed down to the Fort after work on Wednesday and immediately dropped Austyn off with my Mom, got ready, and headed out for a fun night with our best friends we never get to see. We picked up Christy and Justin and met Lauren, JR, Jeremy, and Christina for dinner at Bravo. It was delish, and just what we needed before a night out downtown. We headed to Papa's and visited with old friends. It was a BLAST. Again no pics :( this time I think I was too busy talking to take pictures.

This is the AMAZING food that everyone prepared for us. We had the most amazing hosts and everything was fabulous!

I love all of these people!!!

Look at precious Evie Kate with her Uncle Brandon. She is so cute, I just wanna eat her up :)

This is the Fall outfit that Terra had made for Evie. It says her name on the front and has a little Razorback on the back of her leg. It was so cute!!!

Austyn LOVED Aunt Christy and Uncle Justin (getting some good practice). This was the first time they had gotten to meet her. I hate that we live so far away. Christy and I have been best friends since we were 10. They live in San Antonio now, so we only get to see them once or twice a year :( Christy is such a natural with Austyn and Evie. They both love her so much. We can't wait to see you soon!!!! Thanks again for inviting us to spend Thanksgiving with y'all...it was PERFECT!

Brian and I both had to work on Friday, so we had to leave after Thanksgiving dinner and head back to Fayetteville. Austyn's daycare was closed, so Brian's parents picked up Austyn and kept her OVERNIGHT. I cried a little, ok a lot, but it would have been a LOT more if I wouldn't have passed out as soon as my head hit the pillow. After work on Friday, we loaded up the car again and headed to pick up Austyn in Conway and went to my Aunt's house in Memphis. Brian thankfully got off work a little early, so we ended up getting to Memphis about 9:30. We hung out and visited for a little bit and then hit the hay. We got up early to get ready to go to Meema's!!! It's about an hour away from Memphis and we got there about 1:00. First on the agenda was the 5 generation McDonald women picture.

This is 2 of the 3 five generation families we have on my Mom's side. I can't believe how big Allie is. She looks so grown up!

Austyn was playing with my great grandmother's (Mother Mac) necklace. Mother Mac will be 100 on Christmas Day!!! She still lives by herself at her own house with a garden...WOW!

Here is my cousin Corey's 5 generation picture.

We watched Arkansas beat the crap out of LSU after we ate, and then headed back to LuAnn's for Tomlinson family game night. It is one of my favorite parts of the holidays!!! The next morning, we got up, packed up the car AGAIN, and headed back home (with a quick stop in Conway to get Lucy). Thank goodness Brian and I took Monday off to recuperate, because we really needed it. Man, I'm tired just typing this, whew. It really was a lot of fun, but this will be the last year that we run all over...it's just too hard and it almost takes away from the joy of the holiday!! I hope you all had as FABULOUS of a Thanksgiving as we Avra's did!!!!!!!!!!