Turkey Day and more

November has been a busy busy month in our household. It's been fun though - we started it off with raking 60 bags of leaves from our yard (and we're not done yet...just taking a long break). The girls had a blast jumping in the piles of leaves. I can't believe I didn't take any pictures - the leaves were beautiful this year. We've had fun hanging out with friends, doing kid activities, and celebrating various events. No pictures no pictures. Then, to wrap the month up we celebrated Thanksgiving and Abbie's birthday both on Thursday. Who doesn't love Thanskgiving? This was our first to host a large crowd and actually make the turkey, etc. It was fun, though - we had people bring sides and dessert, so it wasn't actually a big deal to make the turkey and a couple of other things. Abbie had a special seat b/c it was her birthday...

We went to Lily's Thanksgiving party at her school earlier in the week. She and her classmates put on a little show for us and we had a Thanksgiving meal (picnic style). It was very cute.

Then we headed to the Haute on Friday to watch Tangled with the family. Great great flick. We also went to the Haley Thanksgiving at Aunt Carla's that night.

THEN, today we spent the WHOLE entire day decorating for Christmas. I just love when the Christmas stuff is out. Makes the house feel so cozy. So I was very excited to decorate the new house for the first time. It looks great. The only problem is that the tree is too tall for the living room. We had vaulted ceilings in the old house, so tree hight wasn't an issue. In this new house, the ceilings are tall, but not tall enough for our giant tree - well, the tree fits, but it skims the ceiling so we couldn't put the tree topper on. I don't know what is going on with the girls' faces in that picture of the fireplace:)

We hope everyone had a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!!