Our Thanksgiving weekend

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend. My mom was here, which was awesome!! I love having her around for the holidays :) On Wednesday night, we got off work and went to my grandma's house in Deerfield to pick up my mom and grandma (my grandpa doesn't travel a lot, so he was staying behind and was going to spend Thanksgiving at Tracy's). We headed down to Long Grove, where we had dinner at Lou Malnati's (this excellent deep dish pizza place). So yummy.

Thursday was, obviously, Thanksgiving, and we had a good time just hanging out, watching movies (I think we got through Elf, The Holiday, and The Grinch) and, of course, eating. Here's a shot of us at the Thanksgiving table:


From left-right: my cousins Katrina, Karissa, my aunt Christine, me, Dan, my mom, my grandma, my cousin Matthew. My uncle Mike was the one taking the pic.

On Friday, we slept in; no Black Friday shopping at 4 am for us! But we did go shopping at around 11, and I got some great clothes at Motherhood Maternity; two really cute tops and some super comfy maternity jeans (that I'm contemplating wearing after the birth, since they're so comfortable and they don't have some stupid snaps or buttons poking into my stomach!) We also got some great deals at Victoria's Secret; I was able to stock up on lotion for only $4.50 a bottle, when normally it's $9.50 or more.

That afternoon, we went and saw Hairspray at the Lincolnshire Theatre. It was SO good; seriously Broadway material. Dan even really liked it, and he is not really into musicals. But this was excellent; the singing and the choreography blew us away. Here's a shot of us at the theatre (I am wearing one of my new maternity sweaters and my jeans, although I don't think you can see those):



We came back late Friday night, and on Saturday went to breakfast with my grandparents, Tracy and the girls. My mom's flight had to leave around three, so we took her to the airport around two and then just spent the rest of the day lounging around at the Hines' house. Today I think Dan's going to finish putting up the outside lights and we'll get our tree up as well. I'll post pics when done :)