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!