Happy Thanksgiving!

The camera didn’t make it out much today with all the cooking, preparing, eating, and cleaning up. Sad, I know, but sometimes it just can’t be helped. I did take some pictures of my nephews and brother-in-law and sister-in-law, and all the grandsons with grandma. None of the grandma ones came out very well. I think my settings must have been off or something. Have to try again.

We had a 30.27 pound turkey for 21 people. Somehow, it was done cooking in 5.5 hours! John was a huge help and basted all day, I even got to sleep in a little this morning. It was very, very needed. I felt much better today than I have in a while. We had a really, really nice Thanksgiving with everyone pitching in quite a lot. I think this year I finally managed to give up a lot of my control over the day, and just let everyone help. I am so over that "perfect" Thanksgiving. The food wasn’t any different this year than it was in past years, but with letting stuff go, I was a hell of a lot more relaxed. Which was so nice. All the cousins played together so nicely and I think everyone had a fun time (especially with the Wii).

Nelson came by and helped out a bunch last night. He pre-prepared the turkey for cooking. That thing was so huge that I couldn’t have managed it on my own. He’s so handy to have around. I highly reccommend everyone having a chef as a BFF.

I got my new lens on Tuesday but didn’t even get a chance to take it out of the box until last night. I’m not loving it- it is so monsterously huge and heavy and that along with some other issues about it that I don’t love is making me think it might be getting returned. Still doing some research on what I might replace it with but the jury is still out. I might give it another go tommorrow, but for the amount of $ I paid for it, it should make me so happy that I am exploding. I am not exploding. The picture of Nelson is with it. It’s okay, but I’m not really able to use it in low light settings without a flash. And you all know how I feel about the flash.

Going to be a very, very busy weekend. Two shoots tommorrow, three on Saturday, three on Sunday. Going to try to take the boys to a surprise outing tommorrow (Friday) night. Dinner with the twin girls and their parents Saturday night- after a photoshoot for them!

Off to bed. I might get a whole 8 hrs tonight. I can hardly even imagine…