Thanksgiving Day

a.k.a. enjoy spending time with Matt because it's the last time you'll see him 'till Christmas. {okay, not really. but it feels like it!}

As I mentioned before, we enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Eve feast ala Snoopy. The kids thought it was the greatest thing ever to eat jelly beans for dinner. They laughed through the whole meal!

Thanksgiving morning was spent decorating the house for Christmas {and making some yummy dishes for dinner}. The kids' favorite part is always decorating the tree.

After all the tree decorating was done, they made a fort with the Christmas boxes and left the rest to me.

Since that day, Jackson has been UN-decorating the tree for me. SUPER helpful! Whenever I hear "ball" I know that he's got another treasure for me, which usually means I spend the next 15 minutes on my hands and knees searching for a missing hook. A fence around the Christmas tree isn't sounding so ridiculous at the moment.

We stopped by the May's {after some confusion about when dinner would be served at the Young's} & had fun visiting with Matt's fam and playing with the "cousins". Then we were off to my parents house for a fabulous dinner & some great company!

After dinner Kensie performed a puppet show. She wrote her own Thanksgiving story {which we left there so I'll post later} and read it while I held up the puppets. Then we sang a few songs that Lincoln learned in preschool. The kids' had so much fun!

The day after Thanksgiving we avoided Black Friday like the plague {while Matt went to work at 4 am}. We finished decorating, read Christmas books, worked on Christmas presents, and of course did a lot of dancing to Christmas music!

Christmas Time Is Here!