Thanksgiving in St. Louis

The day before Thanksgiving we made the trip up to St. Louis to visit some family for the holidays. We loaded up my parents & my sister along with TAG, Riley & myself in our Tahoe. Between all of the people & the luggage we looked like the Griswold's in Christmas Vacation. All we needed was a huge Christmas tree tied to the top of the car. I was a little worried about how Riley would do riding for that long. It's a little over 4 hours from our house to where we were going. He actually did really well the whole way. We stopped in Sikeston, MO which is about 1/2 way to eat supper at Lambert's where they throw the rolls. I had Riley sitting in my lap to give him a break from being in his car seat carrier while we ate. About midway through the meal, my dad raised his hand for the waiter to throw him a roll. Apparently this guy did not have good aim. Before my dad could get any words out of his mouth, a huge buttered roll landed right on the top of Riley's head. And this was no small roll, by the way! I guess it didn't hurt though because he just looked around a little stunned. Poor baby! We couldn't help but laugh!

We finally made it to my cousin's house & before we started cooking for Thanksgiving lunch, we sat around visiting everyone. We don't get to see this side of the family very often & it is always so nice when we do.

Riley got to meet his 3rd cousin for the first time who is about 3 weeks older than him. They had so much fun with each other.

My sister Jamie with Riley.

My dad seemed to attract all of the kids that day!

Katie, my cousin was holding Riley while we were sitting around talking. She turned to me & said "Did you put lotion or something in his hair? It's so silky!" (Remember that buttered roll?)

The next day we went to see Hartley & Addison. Riley was a little tired this day from all of his Thanksgiving traveling.


Back home for bath time after visiting.


Just a few pictures from the last days of November.