Happy December! To kick it off, I'm throwing it back to Thanksgiving. This year we were so happy to be invited to Jared's cousin Rachel's home for Thanksgiving, along with Jared's parents. This is the same cousin we celebrated July 4th with at Jared's parents' home. Rachel and her husband have 6 kids, the oldest of whom just got married and the youngest of whom is just older than Jack. They live in Port Orchard, which is a quick ferry ride or slightly longer car drive south of Seattle. We opted to take the ferry down and then drive back. Jack loved the ferry. It was a beautiful ride.
It was a good time with family. My favorite part of the day was watching Mariah carry her little kitten around with her literally everywhere all day long. I've never seen someone love animals that much and have that much of a calming affect on them. This was also the most docile kitten I've ever seen. I held it for a bit at the end and almost considered becoming a cat person, but then on the drive home my nose started running and the sneezes came and I remembered, oops, I'm allergic to cats. Anyway, it was a good time, and we're excited for them to come up to Jared's parents for Christmas Eve and for Jack to have a little playmate again.