Belle in Minnesota: thanksgiving in georgia

Our flight left Atlanta this morning at 8:30. Too bad when we booked the tickets I didn't think about how early we'd have to get there, especially from driving from my parents' house in LaGrange, an hour away. But we made it and with the time change were back at our apartment by 10:45am.

We had such a refreshing and fun weekend with our families that I wanted to go ahead and post some of the fun pictures.

We headed to Atlanta on Tuesday and stayed with Andrew's parents for a night and then had a big breakfast with his Mimi and brother Jason who came in town. It was really sweet for us to spend time with his parents who we enjoy but especially enjoyable to have all of them together. We then headed down to LaGrange to spend the bulk of the holiday with my family. With both sets of parents and sibilings, it was the first time they saw the baby bump, which was in full force! Seriously! I think I finally "popped" out in this past week or two.

They technically live on West Point Lake, but because the water is so low it was more mud + beach than anything else. After making a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, we headed down to the "water" to get out of the house for a while. And on top of that, I was plain pumped about not seeing snow or needing a jacket, gloves or anything wool!

Mom and Court making a bonfire on the beach while the guys went for a little ride in the Ranger.

Their adventure soon came to a muddy stop as the Ranger began to sink into the mud. Poor guys!

While they figured all that out, we girls enjoyed the bonfire and some long needed catch up time in person. Plus we marveled at my now large and clearly pregnant belly!

Post T-givng, we had fun just hanging out together and on Friday I headed up to the "Big City" for a wedding shower for a great friend from my college years. I got to see these sweet friends there too!

Ginnie, me, and Amber worked and lived together for a few years. It's always a fun time when were together!

And us with Julie another girl we worked with and who is also prego! Actually friend who's a labor and delivery nurse guessed I was late 20s-30 weeks! That's several weeks further along than Julie (but really I think I'm a good month or maybe 2 earlier) but I guess the twins are pushing me out pretty quick- I'm at 16 weeks here! :)

Then my amazing Dad, knowing one of the keys to my heart, got the whole fam tickets to the Georgia-Georgia TEch game! Ahh! I miss Georgia games! And it happened to be the game marking 3 years since Andrew and got engaged.