Thanksgiving Day- Leg 3

We arrived back at the Boemer's house in Valdosta at about 2 am on Thanksgiving Day morning. We slept until about 8:30 or so and then it was up for a full day! We had breakfast and played with the kids. Jackie's back yard is perfect for little boys!!

Nice and big and fenced in. They also have a huge playground.
So if the boys weren't out on that, they were in Donovan's room playing!

Mrs. Boemer, Jackie, and Betsy did most of the cooking.


I made a couple of peanut butter pies and helped the kids make some chocolate covered pretzels and peanut butter crackers...

but for the most part, it was all them. They did a terrific job! There was fried turkey and baked turkey. There were deviled eggs, southern stuffing, mashed potatos, sweet potatos, green beans, rolls, gravy, cranberry sauce, squash casserole... and so much more! It was so good!

That night, we planned out the stores we wanted to go to and played cards and a dice game called Farkle with all the girls while the men watched football and the kids played!

All the girls, with the exception of Maggie and Heather, were headed to shop by 4:45. We stayed out shopping until about 1pm. We got some great deals at Target! I found a great deal on a camera at Best Buy, but the line was wrapped around the store, so I wasn't up for that... and the next day the camera was gone! Oh, well! We hit Belk, JC Penney, Kohl's, Target, and all the little shops in the mall too. It was fun. I found a couple of small things for Hankie, too!