Thanksgiving was pretty normal in our house this year. It was just the four of us, which sometimes is so nice simply because when we sit down to eat and hear "Yucky! I don't want this food!" that Vic has worked so hard on, we don't have to look around at other people and be embarrassed! We had spent the days earlier in the week in Sanger for a quick trip at Melbo and GG's house that included celebrating Charley's birthday, putting up Melbo's tree, playing with Bubba the cat, and hanging out. So, while were gone, Vic had already put up all of his outside lights and prepared part of the food to cook on Thursday. So, we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and ate lunch and then Vic got the Christmas decorations down. It was a pretty low key day that ended with me doing some Black Friday shopping! On Friday, the kids started putting together little trees with tiny ornaments and we started working on the big tree. Around 6 or so that evening, we realized half of the tree's lights did not work! And if you know Vic, that will just not do. So, after trying and trying to fix it and make it work, Vic headed to Lowe's to buy another tree. By the time the night was over, we had the tree up and decorated. It was late but we let Atticus stay up to help us and he was so funny! He took his job so seriously. He loved that he was getting to stay up late and that Grace had to go to bed. He wanted to help with all of the ornaments and would tell us which ones he could put on (even if they were breakable) and tell us which ones to put up high so Grace wouldn't get them. He loved going through those ornaments! It was a sweet evening with him. The rest of the weekend was spent with me making ornaments for our church's family advent devotion and Vic and Atticus saw "The Good Dinosaur" in the theater. It was a nice family weekend!
These two look so old here!
Ah-a casual Thanksgiving Feast.
So, the two pictures above show some of the donkey's I made for "A Meaningful Christmas" Advent ornament exchange and devotion that I organized for 24 people at our church. Of course, I was finishing these up the last minute, but I loved how they turned out!
And here's a few pictures from our fast trip to Sanger:
Feeding goats.
Even if Bubba is not interested, he is pretty patient while Grace plays with him non-stop.
Happy 27th Birthday Charley!
While we worked on the tree, Melbo and Atticus played some Go Fish, which Atticus LOVES to play.
So, while we didn't know that Vic and I would be doing the same thing of trying to get lights to work on our tree at home, GG and I first spent a good hour or so on Tuesday trying to make these lights work on this tree. It was pretty hilarious once we realized that there were so many missing. But, we just forged on and covered it with ornaments!
Atticus and his GG!
