Thanksgiving at the Lake (part 2)

   Of  all the expertise we have in shopping we are the absolute WORST at Black Friday shopping. I blame it on being an un-natural force placed on what’s mean to be a leisure recreational activity…

Well that and having to wake up too damn early.

Since we already left at a very “non-competitive” time for Black Friday shopping I talked everyone into family pictures before shopping til we drop!

    The sun made horrible shadows but i love these pictures!

Moving on to the deals!!!

To be honest we got absolutely no deals but that didn’t slow us down!

   …and it certainly didn’t stop Aunt Taytay from buying us new toys and playing with them in the middle of the mall.

We headed back with our peeps and I thought made it just in time for a good sunset picture… I ran out to the beach to see and apparently I was too early.. The sun was blazing down but it turned out perfect because we found a perfect spot with the biggest clam shells!

…and I have the best little clam hunter. Our Poppy says fresh water clams are worthless. So much that their only use became making buttons from the seashells but that doesn’t stop us…. the thrill is in the hunt! 

We got so hot we hade to lose our leggings…. yes it was almost December….   I think I could send hours taking pictures of the views here…

Thankfully our Tayay tagged along and snapped this one of me with my girl…. it was random but ended up being my favorite! Isn’t that how these things always work out….

We made it back in time for Gigi’s happy hour after all… That’s what Gigi’s are for right?

Teaching Lo the in’s and out’s of happy hour!?    These two and their favorite spot… ALWAYS laying on the floor somewhere playing..

Poor girl, she was so worn out because we (apparently) have a no napping rule at the lake… so she went from zombie almost passing out mode to dance party mode over and over!  

Then a small miracle happened…. one in which Lou has hoped for since the girl was born.

She laid on him to watch a movie and (almost) fell asleep!

I could NOT believe it, unfortunetly as excited as Lou would have been i leaned over to see his face…. he was asleep.   Well I spoke too soon apparently that night Lo and I got a little snuggly on our own! She sleeps with us when we go to the lake and when I woke up I found this picture in my phone from Lou….

Isn’t not always pretty…. but it works lol

This view on the other hand… I just had to soak up my last day of it since we don’t plan on being back for a while… I do love it in the fall probably just as much as I do in the summer though!

Saturday night was actually our “recognized” Milly girls birthday since we always do it on Thanksgiving weekend and it usually gets celebrated the particular night i remember “omg we forgot to celebrate Milly’s birthday!”

So we took her back to play with her friends and she literally left us before we could even see if they were outside… All i heard was the neighbor yell

“We got her!”

  Lola thought it was hilarious watching Milly swim!

Don’t you love her new babble talk!?!?

Stay little Lola, stay little.

“This” (her new favorite word) I never knew how much it applied to, good pick Lo.

   We headed bac in time to bake cookies with Gigi before heading home. Lou made Lola the most amazing “toddler tower” to help me in the kitchen without having to stand on our bars stools and I literally am in love with it!! I had been wanting one for a few weeks but they are super expensive so i found a pinterest DIY and got Lou on it! The cookies turned out amazing and so did our tower (just needs some paint!)! We headed home for what ended up being only a day before unpacking and repacking to head to Biloxi… more of that to come!