Thanksgiving, Christmas trees and Sparkle!

We had a great thanksgiving day with an amazing feast prepared by my mother in law. After the feast we sat down for a rousing game of LIFE, well not really rousing but it was fun. The kids really got into it and helped us spin for our turns and move our cars. They really thought it was funny when I landed on twins twice as well as having one single child and them not all fitting in my little car.

And the best family photo for the day. Ronnie was grouchy, it's not flattering for any of us but oh well I'm still crazy about our little family!

I was lucky enough to be off Thanksgiving as well as the two days previous. I had to return to work on Friday night for two nights. Work always ruining the weekend! This is the beginning of my yuck rotation so in between work days I was only off one day…Sunday… ..which we filled up! 

We went to Hurd Holley Farm where we picked out and cut down our Christmas tree. The kids loved being out on the tree farm, trekking through the woods, and posing for pictures. I do have to say that I was able to take some pretty nice pictures while we were there.

 

This beauty came home with us for the front door! ------>
 

We also swung by target and picked up some things for our tree because we weren’t exactly sure how well our lights were going to work this year on the tree they are pretty old. I’ve never seen so many choices for Christmas lights in my life! Indoor, outdoor, twinkling, flashing, green cord, white cord, regular bulbs, LED’s, big and small. Oh my! You’d think we were picking out a college for Evee with all the time we spent there looking and reading about all of the different styles.

They are some good looking guys wouldn't you say?

Finally we agreed on some bought them and got the heck out of Target before we went broke. It turned out that the three boxes of LED lights we purchased was not nearly enough for our ginormous tree. So we ended up having to use some of our old lights as well. Luckily some of our old non-LED lights still worked and I was just able to use those instead of running back out to Target.
 

So on with the decorating! Its really rather interesting to decorate with a 3 and 5 year old because they are just tiny compared to the tree. All of the decorations that they place are all in one spot and not above a few feet off the ground. Ron and I had to do a little ornament moving but it was a fun experience with the kids. Ronnie kept declaring "That's awesome!" about everything. It just melts my heart when they see something new that they are thrilled with. It brings such pleasure to me to show them something new. 

On December 1st Sparkle our Elf on the Shelf made her return journey to our house for the Christmas season. Look for future posts about all the antics that she performs around the house.