Gingerbread house making.
L really wanted to put that ceramic shoe on
Girls dancing in living room
Baking party
Girls decorating and baking.
So Thanksgiving was great this year. Both Josh and I had all our siblings here. We had a full house and were blessed with great company. We started the day at home and then went to my mom's for the first of our dinners. We ate a fantastic meal after playing family fued and then went to Josh's parents for the second of the dinners.... also terrific!! I must say I ate WAY too much. We played rockband with everyone there and then had pie - some truly wonderful pecan pie :). Even by the time we got home, my older sister kept poking me in the belly because I had obviously eaten too much. The girls has a ton of fun playing with their cousins.... it was totally cute to see them all together (unfortunately minus my youngest nephew). So the Friday after Thanksgiving I had to take L to the Dr for each and upper airway yuck, but then we all had a bake fest at my house. We made sugar cookies and decorated gingerbread houses. We did have one other fantastic delay to the baking fun (which was supposed to start at 10:30 but didn't start till ~ 3). My younger sister had thought she could possibly be expecting and decided to find out while at my house. And what a blessings, Erin is HAVING a BABY!!!! So of course, we were completely distracted and celebrating that before we could get back to the previous plan of making cookies and such. The guys had all gone bowling, so we came up with a fun way for Erin to tell Tim the great news. All of were supposed to go to a movie that night, but Josh and I missed out. Josh ended up with GI yuck and I got called to the clinic to help with an emergency. It really was so great to have our family here.
This week the girls and I put up our Christmas decorations. I is more excited that I have seen her yet. L totally loved going through the boxes of decorations. I'm not sure if I have mentioned this before on the blog, but L has a thing for shoes. She found a cute little ceramic santa boot and even tried to put that on her big toe. It was adorable. The day after we put up decorations, I woke up so excited and said "mommy, this is the first time I have woke up and it is a day closer to Christmas." It just makes my heart giddy to see her soooo giddy!! Hopefully this week we will go and get a Christmas tree. It ends up being a pretty big deal... time consuming as we get like a 20foot tree and setting it up is a production. I can't wait to see L's expression when she sees a tree inside and I CAN'T wait to lay under the tree with my girls and look up and the lights!!!
Today we went to a gingerbread making party. That was also so fun. This year is the first year I actually did her own house...... so cute. L did really good too. She decorated most of the roof and "gutters". It was great to get together with my friends for our traditional mess making day and the kids really seemed to enjoy it too.
I was going to comment a quick funny story or two about potty training, but I think I will just leave it at that. I was SOOO easy. L is doing well, but well..... we do have funny stories. It is definitely taking longer than I had expected. I guess when you are comparing to a day, anything seems longer!
So once again I will try and post pictures. We'll see how it goes.
