Such a great Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Makes missing the stay at home mom life a ton! We had the entire family minus Paula, Craig and Emma over on Thanksgiving day. However did get to see the Bursch's as they used our home as a stopping ground for a resting spot on their way to Omaha. It was nice to see them Thanksgiving morning and Paula was there to help me fix the turkey and get it ready to cook. It made the house sell so wonderful all day! Now that is the true meaning and feeling of the holidays. The familiar smells of the feasts. It was a wonderful day of family old and new and new friends that were introduced to our family for the first time. I for the first time got up on Friday (BLACK FRIDAY) and shopped! It was great wonderful deals, long lines and time to myself! I showed Santa some great deals on toys, clothes, things that NOBODY needs! We drew names again this year for Christmas with my side of the family the theme for this year is HOME. So anything for the home. I have my mom and hope that my challenge can be obtained. Jay has my sister Paula and she now lives in a project house in Duluth so it should be fairly easy to find something fun for her.
Yesterday we went out and bought a Christmas tree and decorated it. Andrew was so cute he loved looking through all the ornaments and find the ones with his name on it and the ones that weren't his he would ask... Well can that one be mine now? It was a lot of fun! William didn't have as much interest helping with the tree, however we discovered that he knows how to put a new DVD into the player and watch a different movie every 10 minutes or so. Smarty pants at 2 he is! Looking forward to Friday, my parents are taking the boys for the evening so that Saturday morning they can go and have breakfast with Santa. They will have a great time. Sunday we are going to attempt #2 in getting the kids pictures taken. It should be interesting as the first time William would not sit in a posed picture at all. Hope you are all doing well.
Happy Holiday's!

Had a fantastic weekend! It was great to get outside and enjoy some of the last warm fall days that we have available. The kids and I went over to Autie Katie's for lunch and then helped her with the leaves that finally dropped. She has a lot of late dropping leaves! It was a lot of fun for Andrew as he got the hang of jumping into the leaves and crawling out of them only to do it all over again! I am hosting Thanksgiving this year which should be a great time! I have been thinking about what size turkey to buy as we will have 13-15 people to celebrate and be thankful with! I am also hosting a Pampered Chef party on Saturday November 25. I have invited as many of you as I could think of. Thought that it would be a great night for girls night out as well as Christmas shopping for those on your list. Give me a call if you are not able to make it, I wold certainly be able to place an order for you of the things that you are looking to purchase. Talk to you soon!
Laura

Happy Halloween! It was a cold night but the kids bbburrrr'ed through the cold weather last night and made it out there for about 40 minutes before Jay and I said time to head back home. Andrew claimed he was ready for more after he warmed up but was a bit disappointed after I said that we were done. William wouldn't keep his hat on and his little fingers were not kept to warm in the mittens he has. I need to get warmer ones for him. All in all they had a great time! I left early from work to arrive home to the boys dancing around so excited about the fact that the sun was going down and it was almost dark outside! What cuties!