The Wallace Word: So much to be thankful for...

So true - we have so many blessings to be grateful for ALL year long!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with our families, and enjoyed celebrating our first Thanksgiving with our cute little turkey! Unfortunately I did a really bad job of capturing all the fun that we had, but there are a few highlights...

We drove up to Dillon Wednesday night and I experienced my first trip to South of the Border...can you believe?!? {if you've driven along I-95 you know what i'm talking about} I was so excited that I thought I might cry.

We had dinner at The Peddler with the whole fam. It was dark when we got there, but I'm looking forward to another trip where I can check it all out. You know, see the sites.

We had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday.

Family pic on Thanksgiving Day

The guys played two rounds of golf {big surprise}

And we watched football and played in the FIRST {annual} corn hole tournament. I should have taken some pictures b/c it was pretty funny. Then it got later...and the mischief began...

You see, Betsy and Alto left the Thanksgiving party a little early...

{b/c Alto was on call and they had to get the kids to bed}

And their house is only golf cart distance away...

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

Unfortunately I couldn't get their car and side of the house in the pictures...but it looked like a mummy.

And now the "game has been brought" and we will probably all pay...because Alto is the biggest prankster guy of all time, and we just woke a sleeping bear, so to speak.

Unfortunately Nicholas had a headache and was asleep during all of this. He said if he had known the wrath of Alto would come his way he would at least have participated to make it worth it. Sorry, bud.

The whole town knew about it the next day.

It was a rolling of love, though! :)

Friday morning we did a little house hunting, and then Friday afternoon we headed up to Clemson to see my family and attend the Clemson/USC game.

Saturday afternoon, MaMa, Myra, and Peyton came over to play.

and they brought some goodies for Millsy - he loves his tiger hat!

Have you ever seen a cuter TIGER?!?

We headed to the game just in time to tailgate for a few minutes before heading inside.

Me and Anna!

gametime

Awful angle/picture of the two of us, but I was trying to take this as fast as possible so I could *enjoy* the festivities, however I don't think people appreciated me doing it during the national anthem, which I didn't really realize was going on b/c we had JUST gotten to our seats, and anywho, long story short, bad pic but documents we were there, ha.

not that we really want to prove that after the way the game went. :)

you know, the "most exciting 25 seconds in college football"... aka the most exciting 25 seconds of the Clemson/Carolina game. Other than a touchdown on our first possession, that was the extent of the excitement. Luckily I was totally prepared for us to get stomped, so it wasn't overly upsetting.

The tailgating was totally worth going anyway.

On Sunday we had a special visit with Santa - he came to my mom's house to see Mills and Peyton!!!

Unfortunately I can't show you the pictures b/c you'll probably see one or two on our Christmas card and how much of a spoiler would that be?!? But I will give you this one...

of their first meeting, and tell you that Santa accidentally slept in, so instead of coming at 9:30 he came at 10:30am. 10:30 is the little guy's nap time, so you can guess how well that went over, haha!

oh wait, I'll give you a glimpse of that, too...