Oh Yeah, Thanksgiving

If I am feeling sassy, I will go and backdate these posts so they are actually in chronological order. Right now, I'm just lucky they are up here at all. 

So, when we last left the Grover Family, it was right after Thanksgiving. You know, more than four months ago.

My brother, David and his lovely family met up with us in beautiful Sausalito for a day at the Children's Discovery Museum.

 Okay, so we are a little goofy.

 It was a beautiful day.  Luis Carlos and Gabriela created this big structure outside. It looks like Uncle David wanted to get in on the building action!

 Lane and David took the little kiddos to the tot section for a while.  Easton enjoyed playing in the water. We have been here so many times when he was just a baby along for the ride in the baby carrier. So it was sweet to see him enjoying the museum on his own.

And what are the chances of these Brothers from Another Mother showing up at the museum wearing the exact same t-shirt that they both purchased together while at a concert in DC, back in the day? It was a chilly morning, so we didn't realize this until half way through the day.

 So, David and I may have had more fun with the blocks than Easton and Isabella.

 Easton LOVED the gravel pit construction area.  For the kid who is constantly informing people that excavators pick up dirt and dump trucks dump dirt, this was a huge deal.  He could have spent all afternoon here.

 Um, cute cousin alert!  After the museum, we went to Marin and met up with quite the crowd (our family of four, David, Tati, Luis Carlos, Isabella, Matthew, Banu, Christianne, Cynthia and Dan) for dinner.  These two stuck together.

 In true David fashion, stopped next door for a pre-dinner snack.  Can you blame us?? There was a place called Punjabi Burrito next door!  It was amazing.  And it totally reminded me of the Thanksgiving several years before in DC, when while I was in the midst of cooking up a serious Thanksgiving feast, David walked across the street to Kabob Palace to buy a pre-dinner "snack" and came back with like five carry out containers of Afghan Kabobs. 

We got some hot cocoa for the kids since we arrived a little early for dinner.

During dinner we decided why head home?  Instead we had an impromptu sleep over at Uncle David's hotel suite in San Francisco.  The kids stayed up late and watched Elf.  The grown ups stayed up later and chit chatted, and we all had an amazing buffet breakfast the next day before saying goodbye.

Gabriela, that sweet tender hearted girl of mine, burst into tears while saying goodbye to her cousin Christianne.  Even after we had our goodbye hugs, she ran back to Christianne in tears to give her one last goodbye.  While it breaks my heart that she gets so sad at these goodbyes, I am so grateful that she has such a wonderful family to love and share memories with.  Every. Single. Time. it reaffirms our decision to move away from DC, even though we loved it so much, to be close to our family so our kids could grow up knowing and loving their family.  That is definitely going on around here, and I love it.