Southern Illinois Thanksgiving

This year the Turner Tribe headed down to Southern Illinois for Thanksgiving. The first stop was Angie's Mema Mary's House on Thanksgiving Day where we got to visit with her Dad, her Mema and Willard, her Aunt Nancy and Uncle Doug, along with her first cousins Charisse and Neil. The kids got to ride Papa Curt's horse, Sonny (which they loved) and Brandon learned how to play Checkers. When we were leaving, Willard challenged Brandon to a game of checkers on the next visit. Brandon assured him that he would beat him, so Willard told him that they would play for five bucks. Brandon agreed and told him, "If I win, you give me your five dollars and if you win, you get to keep your five dollars!" That's my boy!!!

Stop Number 2 (on Day 2) of the Thanksgiving Tour was at Angie's Mema Larrie's house. We got to visit with her Mema, her mom, Aunts, Uncles, and lots of cousins. We were able to get all the youngsters together for a picture. Brandon and Brittany got their pictures taken with their first cousin once removed (Rachael), and second cousins (Lane, Katelynn, Alianah, and baby Kaden). Brittany was being her normal shy self and Brandon thought there were too many girls there!

To finish out the Thanksgiving Trifecta, the Tour ended at my parent's house on Friday evening for a Thanksgiving Dinner. We visited with my parents and sister Kim and Brother-In-Law David, while Brandon and Brittany had a ball playing with first cousins Ashley and Aaron. After two filled days, we came back up to Springfield on Saturday afternoon to finally get some rest and recover from the long weekend. Only 4 more weeks until we do it all over again!!!