happy thanksgiving!

...well, i hope y'all had a very happy thanksgiving...cadence actually wore a skirt to celebrate...i think i can count the number of times she's worn a skirt or dress on my two hands...i don't know if it's the lack of hair or what, but it sometimes looks funny to me to have her in a dress...maybe it's cuz i personally don't like wearing a skirt...but this outfit was a gift from cousin vikki, and it was way too cute to pass up for a special occasion like thanksgiving at the P's...

...actually, cadence and cousin mackenzie could have been spokeskids for The Children's Place with the outfits they were both wearing at thanksgiving dinner...they were both very cute indeed...and they had a lot of fun chasing each other around!

...so anywho, thanksgiving at ted's parents' was great, although we missed grandma carol and (ted's bro) charles and (charles's wife) ali and cousins connie and ben and their son perry...ted's mom is such an awesome cook...we took home a bunch of leftovers and had almost the same meal for lunch today, which was a major bonus...

...on the way home, we stopped at my uncle's house in northbrook where my mom and my bro jim were spending thanksgiving...we got there right in time for more dessert! my cousins shereline and debbie were there too...i think we spent most if not all of our thanksgivings growing up w/ shereline and debbie's family...

...and today, dave, lauren, sherline and debbie joined us to see Walk The Line at a movie theater out by my mom's place so she could babysit cadence...i think this is the first movie i've seen in the theater without cadence since before she was born...although i think she would've enjoyed it, since she really likes johnny cash's music...i really enjoyed the movie, considering i've read CASH:THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY like twice in the past 11 months...the amazing part is that the portion of cash's life that the movie covers (from his boyhood to 1968, just after he records the 'at folsom prison' album) encompasses just a small snippet of his entire career...if they had covered his whole career and personal life, there would probably be material for at least a few more movies...

i really love johnny cash, not just for his music, but because he is someone who's fallen down so many times as flat on his face and in the dirtiest muck possible, and he still found grace to get back up and start over again...and he really did have The Gift...