So we flew into Portland and met Dad at the airport, and headed out to Hilsboro. When we got to Malia’s house we were dead tired, but couldn’t help but stay up and talk to everyone. We passed out around 1:30 AM, Portland time, meaning 2:30 our time.

I was up by 6:00 AM PST, when Zack, Danielle, and the adorable Ethan got up for the day. So, I was up.
Over the next couple of hours everyone else got up, and we deiced to go to Mexican for breakfast. Malia said there was this place in town:

Muchos Gracias that was a perfect idea for Thanksgiving breakfast. It was unfortunatly closed, and after one other stop we made it here:

We were able to chat and reconnect
Zack, Danielle, and Ethan!!

Ethan!

Mom and Dad

Gabi and Malia

And of course us!

The group:

The rest of the day flew by, making food and chatting!

Nick, Betsy, Asher, and Judah arrived!

It massed up the space in the oven (sorry Malia!!) but I was able to make twice baked potatoes.

After that, I was even able feed Ethan!


More Pictures!


(I love the boys hands in this picture.)

Then we got to feed the twins!

Dinner was on, then Martanelli’s was out…

Pictures of the table

It was at this point that we decided to tell the family that we were pregnant!
How did we do it?
Well, Caitlin asked if we had heard that Robin (A character from one of our favorite shows How I Met Your Mother) was preganat. We agreed that it was nuts, then Karl said,
“You know what else is nuts? Allison is 15 weeks pregnant!”
It took a second for the news to set in…

Then there was the reaction.
It was also at this moment that Judah decided to be super duper cute!




I have been really weird about food lately. All I wanted was Mashed Potatoes, and I also had a twice baked potato before dinner.

Then ofcourse, there was that awesome time that Asher came and hung out with us!



Caitlin found our camera.

Then Gabi displayed her carefully selected thanksgiving day sweater!

We spent the night a home, playing Things and laughing!