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| Lauren demonstrating her prowess! |
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| The calm after the sword storm! |
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| Olivia unarming the ninja with a smash-and-grab! |
Some of you are saying, "What in the world did they do for Thanksgiving?!" Well the ninja costume makes sense when I tell you that we spent it with our cousins (Nathan's first cousin, Leslie Olsen Torgesen's family), and Uncle Kirk and Aunt Cathy. The Torgesen's live in Elkton, MD, about 2hrs away from us in Alexandria. That's 2hrs, non-Thanksgiving Eve traffic; 4hrs Thanksgiving Eve traffic! (*insert decompression sign)
So the part that makes everything fall into place is that Lauren and Olivia met their second cousins, the Torgesen kids (Mikey, Isabel, and Piper), for the first time on Thanksgiving Eve. Mikey had a brand new ninja set when we arrived, and somehow Lauren conned him into letting her wear it before he even got the chance! Lauren still has her MacGyver-title worthy skills--I'm telling you! The video is hilarious in that she does a duck-and-run move at the end--so ninja-like right?!
So Thanksgiving was full of the F trifecta: food, family, and fun! We ended up eating about 1:30pm, so that left a lot of time for dessert, clean-up, toy room play, and card games for the adults. Nate and I learned a new game called Foot and Mouth, which was awesome!!! Wish we had more card-playing friends in the immediate vicinity because I looooovvvveeee this game! It's canasta on steroids...good times. I was Uncle Kirk's partner and we did pretty awesome, though got inched out right at the end by Aunt Cathy and Stafford (Leslie's husband). It was a good thing we needed to leave to put the girls to bed; otherwise it would've been a harder defeat to swallow :/ Per Aunt Cathy and Nate, Uncle Kirk and I have very comparable temperaments when it comes to competitions and winning/losing. But come one, who's really okay with losing?!
Then on Black Friday, instead of joining the crazies at the local stores, we went swimming in the hotel pool! As you can tell by the photos, I forgot my swimsuit, so Nate was overloaded with holding non-swimmers...and Lauren's diaper was overloaded with water. Wowza! Not to quote 90's rap song lyrics, but this "baby's got back"!! Truly!!
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| Lauren kept jumping in, climbing out, jumping in, climbing out... |
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| Worn out bunch! |
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| Baby Lauren's Got Back right?! |
After lunch at Klondike Kate's, we hit the road back to Alexandria to start our Christmas decorating. God Bless Nate and his checklist-driven self. Our house was Christmas-ified before our heads hit the pillow that night; but Christmas is my absolute favorite holiday, so I didn't mind in the least...
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