It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Riley has been so excited to put up the Christmas decorations. She actually began asking yesterday morning about 5 A.M. if we could put up the tree. When we returned home after a busy day yesterday, she said "now we can put up the tree." Mom and dad are a sucker for that little girl, so how could we say no? Before dinner the tree was up and shortly after eating it was very nicely decorated. Riley did a great job putting up the ornaments and only needed a little help. Daddy and Riley put on the star and then we put out most of the other stuff. I am proud to say that I only have a few things left. Mostly the breakable things like my grandma's nativity scene and santa's so she cannot help me with these anyway. She was a wonderful helper and Mike and I were actually glad that she got us moving (otherwise there would still be no tree up). There was only one casualty in decorating and we cannot even blame Riley for that one...silly tree threw a breakable ornament off and it must have hit something on the way down:( Our house looks all ready for Christmas and now it is time to make Riley's list to send to Santa....we have it all ready, but Riley doesn't think we can mail that little hot pink post-it note.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday surrounded by friends, family, and great food. We sure did! Over the course of the long weekend, we managed to see just about everyone in both of our families. Thursday was spent having a delicious meal with Mike's mom and sister and their families. We all pigged out and had great conversation. I personally was still stuffed way into the late hours of the night. Friday, we drove to Indiana and got to see a big group of Mike's family, as well as meeting the new baby Hudson. It was a lot of fun to get to see everyone. Even Mike's uncle Jeff was in from Virginia. I have been lazy with my picture taking and the only ones that I took were of Riley holding baby Hudson.

Saturday and Sunday were busy as well. We visited my parents and grandparents and saw Ryder get baptized. It was a fabulous weekend surrounded by all of the people that we love. Now we all are worn out from driving and sadly I am not looking forward to returning to work tomorrow.