Happy Thanksgiving

What a great Thanksgiving we had this year! First of all, because of Ava we have even more to be thankful for this year. We spent Thursday, Thanksgiving Day at Mom and Dad Pecha's. After we stuffed our faces full of turkey and all the fixings, the girls spent several hours baking goodies to take to Iowa City for the Meinders annual Thanksgiving/Christmas get together. I should note that Rachel quit after about half an hour and mom is the only one who spent the full several hours baking.

Thursday night when we got home we came home to a 58 degree house. Brrrr.... the furnace man needed to be called first thing Friday morning, which gave us a 3 hour late start in heading to Iowa City. No Black Friday shopping for us! We spent the weekend celebrating and visiting with family, most of whom hadn't met Ava yet. Saturday morning we went to the University of Iowa Children's Hospital to donate gifts to the kids. Ava did pretty well this weekend, but I think she was a bit overwhelmed and tired of all the noise and being passed around. She was a little grouchy last night and has been sleeping for a good part of the day today. She must be worn out!

I think tomorrow we will have a nice relaxing day at home, just us girls! I head back to work on Tuesday. Thankfully, only 2 days a week until after Christmas. Of course, the money will be nice, but I am definitely not ready to go back to work anytime soon. I get all misty-eyed just thinking about it.
Ava's First Thanksgiving!

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Donating gifts at Children's Hospital



4 generations