A Weekend Of Thanksgiving

A little behind, but I don't want to forget the fun weekend we had.

Right before Gramma and Papaw came, a snowstorm moved through -- it was nice packing snow.  The kids enjoyed rolling up the snow. I thought it was funny that it picked up everything and left "clean" grass in the paths.  In the backyard, they attached snowballs to some twine that was hanging in a tree (no doubt from another one of their creative adventures).  It reminded me of the play area that Manny on Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs made for his soon-to-be baby mammoth.

This is the beautiful floral arrangement my in-laws sent us to enjoy for Thanksgiving.

My blessed family enjoying Thanksgiving "dinner".

After we ate, the kids read their list of things they were thankful for (with a little help from Daddy).

We found a new craft that we like to do . . . making window clings.  Click here to see how to make them.

Friday we drug Gramma and Papaw along with us to cut down our Christmas tree.  It was cold, unlike last year, and the pickin' was slim!  We wandered around the hillside for what seemed like forever.  The kids got bored and had fun scooting along on the incline near where we finally found a tree.

We ended up settling on a tree that was good enough.  Was really bummed as all the branches/needles were sparse and already looked like they were dying.  This year's tree was closer to 10'.  It made us laugh when we though about how much smaller it looked than last year's tree.

That's the Knight -- the gray ball at the bottom of the tree -- cutting down our tree.

After we cut down our tree (and drug it for what felt like forever back to our car), we met up with Nana and Pappy at the Chinese buffet for dinner before Gramma and Papaw headed back home.  Everyone surprised me with a birthday celebration at the conclusion of our meal.  It was sweet and thoughtful -- made me feel very special!