Fun at the Park!

The week of Thanksgiving our friends the Studderts were in town and on Monday we met them at the park and then went to dinner.  It was so good to see them while they were in town!
Kaylee and Brooklyn

Lexies favorite way to get up to that slide was the rock wall!  Made mama a little nervous. :)

Kaylee and Kennedy

Just one of the kids!

The cute kiddos!

He's Back!

Well, he has actually been back since the day after Thanksgiving but I am just now getting around to posting.  Charlie has been a huge hit again this year.  Kaylee had been asking all the week before Thanksgiving when Charlie might come back.  I told her we would just have to wait and see.  :)  He first showed up on Friday morning but was not discovered until dinner time.  I think he picked a little too hard of a hiding place for the first day back since Kaylee did not really know he was back so did not know to look for him.  Thank goodness Mom spotted him after dinner and the excitement began!  Maybe next year he can pick something not so high up for the first day. :)

A few other places we have found Charlie:

This morning we had found him after he had gotten into the hot cocoa mix and marshmallows and helped himself.  Those elves!  Good thing I had no plans to use my mixer that day. :)

Thanksgiving Day

Everything is all about Christmas around here but I did not want to get too far behind and forget Thanksgiving!  Ryan was off this year and we had a nice low key day.  We took the girls to the park in the a.m. while the turkey was cooking, and later on my Mom, Amanda, and Brandon came over for some good Thanksgiving cookin!

Playing with the new dolls Memaw brought the girls.

Kaylee wanted to make pilgrim hats for a craft that day. 

Happy Thanksgiving.....

Love,

Two of the cutest little pilgrims!

A Thankful Month!

This month we have had fun working on fun Fall projects and talking about what we are thankful for.  We started off by the girls putting together turkeys for our table centerpiece.

 It was cute to watch Kaylee help Lex with hers. :)

 For Kaylee's class we had to decorate or disguise a turkey so it would not become Thanksgiving dinner.  Kaylee chose to make hers a princess.  I think this turkey is safe!

This was something new and fun that we did this year.  We brought our tree out the beginning of November and decorated it as a "Fall Tree".  It has been fun having the tree out so early.

 This year we made a "thankful" garland for the fireplace.  I got the idea from my Mom's group and Pinterest.  :) It was really fun to talk with the girls and get their ideas about what and who they are thankful for.  Then I wrote it out on fall leaves and we hung them up.  We also added a few pictures the girls colored on the garland.  Here they are coloring their turkeys and cornucopias, or "copias" as Lex calls them for the garland. 

I love how the candy cane skirts have started to make an appearance!

 Then of course we must twirl in the twirly skirts!

Then these are from earlier today.  Kaylee was such a big help and helped me get a few side dishes and hot cocoa mix ready for tomorrow.  She loves to help in the kitchen.  Then of course she was not going to let the day slip by without making turkey hand cookies.  :)  Holidays are such a big deal in our house and the excitement was not lacking today.  I let them have a "fun bath" tonight, that is a bath in Mom and Dad's big tub, and then they were running around giggling and gobbling and wondering how soon Charlie might show up.  Charlie is our "Elf on a Shelf" sent from Santa if you don't remember from last year.  We read "The night before Thanksgiving", and Kaylee said tonight she was going to have visions of turkey legs dancing in her head!  Love that girl and her enthusiasm!  I think the real reason for the huge extra excitement is really for the season and holiday that follows.  I can't say I blame them!