Thanksgiving for three!

Before and After pics of the turkey

Carter helping Dad with the turkey, loving on Mom, and sitting down for dinner

The Willis family celebrated Thanksgiving as a threesome for the first time yesterday! We decided that since I am going back to work on Monday, we would stay in Indianapolis for Thanksgiving rather than traveling back to Alabama. Given the fact that our families have Thanksgiving traditions of their own, as well as other obligations; that meant that we enjoyed a quiet Thanksgiving day and meal all by ourselves. It was a wonderful day--even if it was a little too cold for my taste!

Nick, our resident Big Green Egg grilling expert, smoked a turkey for our Thanksgiving feast. If you have never been privileged to experience Nick's cooking on the "Egg," his food is really fantastic. The turkey was wonderful...it was incredibly moist, and we have plenty to enjoy as leftovers, too! Carter even decided to wake up (early!) from a nap just as we were serving our plates so that he could join us at our Thanksgiving meal. He was too funny...it was as though he knew it was a family event and didn't want to be left out. He just sat with us at the table in his bouncy seat and smiled and cooed.

We truly have so many blessings to be thankful for every year, but this year, especially. Having Carter here with us has increased our joy as we celebrate the holidays. I find myself thinking, "will this be a tradition for our family?" "will Carter enjoy this when he is older?" "will this be something our children will want to do with their children?" It is wonderful to think about!

Nick and I were talking yesterday--we have been together for a little over 11 years, married for 5 this February--and we were chuckling about the first weekend that we hung out together. We laughed at how our life now was not remotely a consideration for us at that point. If you had told us "Eleven years from now, you'll be married, living in Indianapolis and will have just welcomed your first child into the world," we would have never believed it. I think that, now, I can't imagine life any other way...God has truly blessed us and we are thankful!