The White's: Start of the Holidays!

So a lot of updates, but we'll just start with Thanksgiving in Chicago! We were able to stay with JP's sister and her family for the weekend in the cute village of Winnetka and have Thanksgiving there with the in-law's. It was a lot of fun and it wasn't even too cold, which I was really excited about! We didn't take too many pictures, but here are a few from Thanksgiving day.

Just preparing for the big feast - apparently Jon got really into carving the turkey!

The beautiful table set up that Rachel did! It definitely didn't look this

perfect after dinner, but everything was amazing!

On our trip we also went black Friday shopping a little with Rachel and got some really great deals that we were excited about. We spent a day downtown with everyone and got to see part of the city, which I was really happy about because I love big cities! And we just got to hang out with the family which is always a plus! Unfortunately we caught a little bug on our trip, JP started feeling sick the very last day, which was horrible timing because he had his final presentation the next morning on Monday after we got in from our midnight flight. But his presentation went really well so that was good. Then once he felt better I got sick on my last day of class! We were a mess for a couple days, but we're all better now and officially finished this semester on Tuesday healthy and cold free! I must say it's a great feeling to finally be done with this semester...and not be sick anymore!

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Last weekend we also took pictures with my side of the family! You know it's Christmas card season when you see ten different families in every spot at the park, but they turned out good! Here's a couple sneak peeks.