
I celebrated the first with my family up in Washington State, in conjunction with my father's birthday. The trip was much too quick and left little time to visit, but I was able to spend some quality time with my family. The twins are much bigger than they were when I first met them in August and are starting to develop little personalities. My brother and sister-in-law seem to be surviving parenting three children. I very much enjoy watching my parents and my grandmother with my nieces.

While freezing up in the great northwest, I decided it was time to get my lazy bum in gear and start training for my upcoming races. I headed out on one of my old runs and loved every minute of it. While out running I found myself debating (an example of the things I think about while running) how long one must spend in California to call themselves a Californian. I grew up in Washington and lived there for 18 years. However, having now lived in California for 16 years, I wondered if I am truly a Californian. While I have not yet lived in California as long as I lived in Washington, I feel as though as I am a Californian, which was further demonstrated by the fact that I was FREEZING the entire time I was in Washington.

I had the opportunity to celebrate a second Thanksgiving on the actual holiday with Chris and new friends we have come to know over the past few years. What a fun, drunken evening. Chris pours a mean drink and when I found myself tipsy while trying to pull the turkey out of the oven, I knew my drinking was over for the evening. I loved celebrating with friends and enjoyed the evening very much. (Rick and Jessica, thank you so much for joining us! Rick, it was a pleasure to meet your cousin. Bing was such a sweetheart.)


We spent a good portion of the weekend planning our next adventures, including Belize, France and possibly Italy (after Ironman France). I am looking forward each already.
3 comments:
Many thanks to you and Chris for hosting Thanksgiving - it was great! The food was excellent and the company was most fabulous! And have I mentioned I love playing "25 words or less"!!!
Let's pick a time for Jeff and I to host you and Chris for a dinner sometime soon! Hopefully before we both take off for our warm and tropical vacations :-)
What nice pictures Jennie. Well about the whole Californian thing, it all depends where your heart is. You've certainly put in the time. I decided to become an American when the flag fluttering in the breeze one day gave me goosebumps and an overwhelmingly feeling of pride. I like that Chris dude, keep him around. He can cook and makes one mean cranberry vodka. Thanksgiving at your place was sooo much fun. I'm sorry I wasn't much useful during the games in the evening. I could barely read the cards because I was so tipsy and I couldn't think fast enough:)
P.S. Tell Chris I drank his water bottle of fun but....I don't know what happened to the bottle. I was also shocked to see pictures of me kissing said bottle as I left your place. I had no memory of it.
Gee, I think your California Thanksgiving sounds like way more fun than the one you had in Washington State!
Sorry you were cold....you have become a hot house lily, you know. It wasn't cold here. No. Really, it wasnt' cold. Really.
I'm going to miss you at Christmas but I'm so glad you are going to be having so much fun with Chris and his family. I'll need a full report (and lots of photos with your new camera!) on the places to go in Belize.
Miss you.
Mom
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