The Thanksgiving Post!

I am warning you: I spent Thanksgiving with tons of babies. So that's what most of these pictures are.

Since I didn't go home to Maryland for T-Givs, I drove north, back up to San Luis Obispo, to spend it with the Cowards. It was quite an enjoyable weekend and I now have plenty of photos to prove it. All the cousins were there except for Mike and Lucy, so it was a full house. But the fuller the better if you ask me.

The day before Turkey Day I took the kids to Montana de Oro again and we, as always, played all day long in tidepools and on cliffs.

Nathan is always being goofy.

For dinner on Thursday I made the most incredible sweet potato casserole, compliments of Aunt Judy, of course. And I can't wait till next Thanksgiving so I can make it again.

So again with the kids, in total this weekend: Jessica (12), Nathan (10), Cole (10), AJ (4), Quincy (2), and Zetta (4 months). Commence baby pictures.

Quincy on her scooter

Zetta Sue with her Grandma Mary Sue

Quincy and Jessica

Baby on the hip - Zetta seems a little annoyed

My love AJ and I

The baby girls - Quincy is at the stage where in order to smile big, you must close your eyes

Grandma and Grandpa Coward with all of their grandbabies

Shortly following dinner my camera was stolen by a 12-year old. So, sadly enough, there's not many more good pictures of babies from Thursday. But alas! The weekend is not through. And neither is the post.

On Friday I went into San Luis with Jeff, Katie, Quincy, and Zetta. It was a little chilly, but fun nonetheless. As you can see, the baby is always prepared for the weather.



Quincy found an outfit she liked, and decided to smile as big as she could while holding it.






OK enough babies, onto the good stuff. Saturday morning my cousin Matt took my other cousin Jeff and I to a shooting range. It was VERY cool and I got to shoot some sweet guns:

A semi-automatic pistol (.45mm) - lots of fun to shoot, but not as easy as it looks

A .22 long rifle (which I did shoot, there is just no picture of me with it)

And a .30-'06 rifle - super loud and scary

*Note: All of these firearms belong to my cousin Matthew

All in all, a very successful Thanksgiving, I would say. I am back in San Diego for a bit, before I go back to San Luis again in a few weeks for my friend Kayla's graduation from Cal Poly. I have started volunteering at the animal shelter in Coronado, which feeds my soul because I get to play with kittens as much as I want. I will finally start tutoring next week (papers didn't go through before), and they seem to like me well enough at the new office, I hope! I am going to a Christmas parade in Encinitas this Saturday, and am doing all the cultural museum-y parts of the city on Sunday. A blog post will surely follow.

Again, I come home on the 17th! Yay! That's like, 2 weeks or something. I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving and has an even better Christmas! I can't wait to be home to see everyone!

Stay classy San Diego,

Shub :)