Thanksgiving Week: It takes 4 to eat a turkey

Thanksgiving was so wonderful this year. We started put thinking it was going to be quiet with just a traditional dinner for Jason and me. That is how it was on Thursday, which led to a relaxing day. The great surprise was my parents arriving from St. George for a non-traditional Thanksgiving. We spent the day driving from Long Beach to Dana Point and all of the beaches in between. We had another Thanksgiving dinner that day as well, but we just threw some turkey in the slow cooker and came home and threw together a dinner in less than 30 minutes. Honestly it was just as delicious as the day before.
Here are some pictures of us checking out the ocean. Even though it is almost December, the weather was gorgeous and sunny. Just what I would expect for a Thanksgiving weekend in California.

My dad didn't bring his boat down so we didn't go sailing this time, but we did go and watch the sailboats drift out to sea.

When we were up in Long Beach we took a look at the Queen Mary. This is an old cruise boat that is permanently docked here after it performed its 1,001 transatlantic crossing. Looking at the Queen Mary behind us you can see that it's a pretty big ship, but nothing compared to the cruise boats these days. Amazingly, the Queen Mary is actually bigger than the Titanic.

One thing you should know about my mom is that she has the world's best green thumb. She is amazing when it comes to plants. There is a huge plant nursery by our place so my mom was in heaven going there walking and buying the plants. I just snapped some quick pics around the area. They have a huge variety of plants there and it is a beautiful area to come and wander.

Overall we had an amazing Thanksgiving week! We started it out celebrating Jason's birthday and then had a quiet and simple Thanksgiving day by ourselves. Then we enjoyed the rest of the time running around with my parents. We can't wait to see what Thanksgiving will be like next year.