Happy Birthday and Thanksgiving

Thursday was both Nelson's birthday and Thanksgiving so we did some major celebrating. We started the whole week off right by going out to dinner, and, on a last minute whim, spent the night out at a hotel. My parents had already volunteered to watch Tripp for the night so we just decided to make the most of it and go all out to begin Nelson's birthday celebrations! We stayed at a cool hotel in the Loop. It was a really nice room and we had fun pretending to be hip and cool in order to fit in with the other clientele.


Even though they had a cool roof top bar, we did our usual thing and hole up in the room all night, watched lots of TV shows and ordered room service for dessert. It was a great night! Then on Nelson's actual birthday, James woke up early to make his brother-in-law an awesome breakfast. James and Steph even brought special bacon all the way from Tennessee since they love Nelson that much!




We had maple glazed bacon and blueberry pancakes! It was all very tasty! Nelson opened up lots of presents, this year with Tripp's help.


We headed to my folks for a tasty Thanksgiving lunch! We finished out the night with Harry Potter and pumpkin pie cheesecake (which was definitely needed cause the "pumpkin pie" at lunch turned out to be sweet potato pie so everyone needed their pumpkin pie fix). It was a great birthday (from Nelson's perspective too) and Thanksgiving!