Happy Thanksgiving

Yet another year of a non-traditional Thanksgiving for the Huber family. This year takes the cake though as the kids and I were alone with no family, not even Derek. Four families were kind enough to invite us to have a Thanksgiving meal with them. I graciously declined to everyone as I'm not much of a social butterfly and knew it would be awkward. Deep down I was a little depressed but tried my best to put on a fake happy face. Although it must be evident that I'm feeling down a lot because one of the ladies later emailed me and told me she prays for our family daily and hopes that one of these days she'll get some inspiration to help lift my spirits.
We did end up going to a Thanksgiving dinner though, after much persuasion. The kids were thrilled and had a lot of fun being with their friends from school. It was awkward for me as it was a family get together and we were not family. But they were very welcoming.
Derek wasn't alone for Thanksgiving either. He made the 6 hour trek to Kevin & Tami's to spend a couple days with them.

The girls have been off all week from school. For the most part we've just stayed home and packed, played games, played outside. We did go on a couple of outings.

One day we went to the McKenna Children's Museum in New Braunfels. New Braunfels school district was still in school so it was the perfect time to go because it wasn't too crowded........and we used a Groupon!

Blake kept coming back to the ambulance. Definitely his favorite thing there.

sick passenger

We were going to go to the Zoo on Thanksgiving Day but the girls wanted to watch the parade and ended up deciding the zoo was boring. So, we had a picnic in the park and just played at the playground and went on a little hike. It was a beautiful day! Seriously, the perfect weather.

This is Blake's new thing. With all of the boxes laying around he's constantly trying to get in them. He somehow managed to fit himself in this little shoebox.

putting on a show, Princess & the Popstar style

I love how clean my kitchen looks, er.......looked for like 12 hours.

The girls have their friends over for a sleepover right now so I'm sure I'll have pictures from that to post sometime this weekend.