Ready or Not, here Comes a New Week!

The Family Room aka Kids Room

Dining Room

Well as you can see, the house is now officially decorated! Always at least a two day task, especially with the kids wanting to help with every part of it. They did do a pretty good job of placing ornaments on the tree this year. And as much as I like to do it, I'm glad it's done.

As for Thanksgiving, it was great and we had two wonderful meals thanks to Mom and Dad and Jack and Betty. It was nice to see everyone and get a little bit of visiting in. The kids loved playing with all of their cousins, and had fun getting a couple games of hide in seek in with Matt!

Ready or Not here they come!!!

At Scotts Dad's the kids ate and ate and ate some more. I forgot to bring my camera in, thus the lack of pictures, but Aunt Pam brought a 12" high (literally) chocolate cake from Pipers in Flat Rock, which was really like a big brownie with 4 layers of frosting. It was VERY rich. Kaleigh ate an entire piece, which was enough for about 6 people. And as if that wasn't enough, Betty brought out the Halloween candy and was giving it out to all the kids every time they wanted, Scott was about to go nuts! And for good reason, because on the way home Kaleigh burped for about a half hour and then started crying and crying, after which she barfed up 4 helpings of that chocolate cake. So it was a late night trip to Meijers in Flint for us to buy some Lysol and gear to clean things up... all while the two older kids were in the back holding their noses and complaining about how bad it smelled in the van. After that, the trip went smoothly and Kaleigh was back to being her normal self. Next time we're going to have to get a little more serious with Grandma I think! :), Either that or make her drive them home.

Friday we spent getting the decorations out and I braved a trip to Toys R Us, JoAnns, and Target for a few of the things on our list this year. It wasn't too bad really I was surprised, but of course it was 10:30am and not 4am. Friday evening we headed out to get the real Christmas tree, normally I wouldn't put it up so early, but with everything going on it was the only chance I was going to get. Hope you all had a great thanksgiving! Have a great start to the week!

Happy Thanksgiving

Things I'm thankful for:

An opportunity to go to church this evening (and kids who were cooperative in an evening service).

Cranberries flying across the kitchen while the kids were helping make tomorrows relish... don't forget the lid!! Really wish I would have gotten the camera out for that.

Apple pie in the oven.

Trees Return (who knew he was up above the kitchen cupboards that whole time)!

Footed and velvety jammies and kids willing to model them for a picture.

Scotts thought that slushies would be a good dessert.

Faith, Family and Friends...

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!

A Cover Girl she is Not

I knew there was a reason I left the makeup bag out tonight... I needed some blogging material. Mascara is for the eyes not the cheeks! Lesson learned... don't leave the makeup bag anywhere future covergirls can get in it. You can tell Avery was not involved, at least she knows that you only use lipstick on your cheeks and lips. Easy, Breezy... time to Clean Up... KaleighGirl.

Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters or Rudolph?

Is it the Staypuff Marshmallow Man or Santa Claus's little sister?

Fun in the tub this evening Kaleigh style.

Avery got in on some of the action too, but she would rather be in rinse mode.

Rambling and Silliness

Ok, so my computer hasn't wanted to cooperate with me all week, so that's my excuse. All of my programs have seemed to disappear, they are there but for some reason the file extensions have all turned into .lnk files, whatever that means, and whatever it is, the computer doesn't recognize them. So I give up, we're going to have to bring in the big guns to get it fixed. Meanwhile at least the internet works, and I can upload pictures today.

Once again it's been a busy week (I don't know when it isn't a busy week, and if it wasn't I'd probably get bored), and on top of that my back has been hurting since I did yard work last Thursday, so when I do have two seconds to sit down, I've been taking them. I started training at Hallmark and it is going well, very strange though to be at work and have it be relaxing. I had a business meeting where we hung pictures and placed accessories for clients on top of the usual schedule of helping out in Avery and Quinns classes etc.

Ok, I know I am rambling, I really should stop. If my computer will cooperate I will post pictures of the kids and their Jammie Fest from tonight. I have been trying to get a decent picture of the three of them together (close up) for potential Christmas cards, and that was how this group of pictures started out, but it ended up being just silliness. Rambling and Silliness, I think they go together. Ok really I'll stop!