Gingerbread Houses

Last Friday Nathan's class had each child's parent come in to make and decorate gingerbread houses. Sadly, Nathan woke up that morning with a nasty case of strep throat. (That in itself is a whole different blog entry!) Anyway-our sweet friend Dana gathered up enough extra stuff and brought it home for Nathan to make one here at the house. A few days later he was feeling good enough and we tackled it one afternoon after school. He had so much fun doing it and definitely used his imagination on this project.

Abby also had to get in on the action. We found a butter box for her to use for her gingerbread house. I know I saw her put some pink marshmallows on her house, but for some reason when she was finished there was nothing on her house. Her belly was awfully full, though!

Abby at the Nutcracker

Last Sunday, Abby and I had a girls' afternoon at the Nutcracker. Our friend Meghan was in the ballet and Abby was so excited to go and see her. We went with our friends Angela, Sydney, & Sofia. The girls were great during the ballet so we went to Sonic after wards. Then they went back to being their silly selves in their pretty dresses. It was a great afternoon!

Thanks Mom and Dad!

Santa came a little early at our house last weekend. I put in a request to my parents a while back for a new camera and they delivered!!! I have been having a great time taking pics of the kids this last week. Here are just a few fun shots.

Decorating for Christmas!

Christmas time is here! We have started decorating the house and the kids are having the best time. This year at our new house, we are putting up 2 trees. The kids have their very own tree upstairs in the playroom. Monday night we got it set up. We used some candy garland that I had saved from when I was growing up. They really loved that. We also decorated their tree with all their ornaments that they get every year from me & Dee and all the fun ornaments that they have made throughout the years. Nathan & Abby also got to open their new ornaments for this year. Nathan was super excited about his golf ornament and Abby really loved her Ariel oranment. Nathan has also set up his train around the bottom of the tree and made a tunnel out of blocks for it. He has wanted to put a train around the Christmas tree for years. I'm not sure where he got the idea, but it's really cute!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving morning I got up early and ran the 10k at the Turkey Trot. It was a good run that I always look forward to. It sure takes away some of the guilt of eating the rest of the day.


After that we went to Grandma's here in town for Thanksgiving lunch with Grandma, Grandpa John, Shelby, Alyssa, & Ryan. It was a yummy meal and a good time playing. After lunch we came home for a bit and packed our suitcases to go to my mom and dad's. Before we left town we went over to Grandmother and Pa-Paw's to say hello and of course do a little more eating.

Then we headed over to my mom & dad's. We ate Thanksgiving there again on Friday. We had a great time there with Paw-Paw, Dee, Mallory & Parsh. We even got to see Mallory take some of her first steps. Christmas will be so fun with her toddling around. We of course had to have a photo shoot on Saturday afternoon in hopes of getting the perfect Christmas card photo.

Care Group Thanksgiving Feast

We had our care group over to our house the Sunday night before Thanksgiving for a feast. It was a great night! We had great food, lots of laughter, some crying, & even a special Oreo dessert for the kids. Thanks Hannah!

Nathan's First Hunting Trip!

Nathan got to experience opening weekend for deer season with Clay this year. Not many deer were seen, but they had a great guys' weekend. They had so much fun being outside, eating junk food, & shooting stuff. They came home awfully dirty & full of candy!