What's On My Happy List?

Turkey Day!

We had our traditional 

"Thankful" breakfast

Thanksgiving morning.

It's always enjoyable

and enlightening to  

hear every one's 

"5 thankfuls!"

Cute Kate made turkey legs for us

in place of name place cards!

Inside were some goodies...

We ate Thanksgiving dinner with Jaren's 

side of the family.

 Emmsie always decorates the table for Gma-C!

It was a delicious feast as always...
as was the pecan pie
or ping pong pie
as my nephew likes to call it.

We went to my sister's for more pie.

Once again, my brother-in-law stole

the show with his pie making.

I think he made 23 this year for 

neighbors and family!!!

My sister had a houseful of over 40 guests.

We went and saw this movie

Thanksgiving night.

Such a feel good show.

I LOVED it, although 

I think I loved the documentary 

"Won't You Be My Neighbor"

even more. 

*****

Some goodies Kate made over the  

Thanksgiving break with a little

help from Emmsie and I.  

She likes to make it more than eat it. 

It's kind of funny. 

She also enjoyed making these felt 

finger puppets. 

She gets excited about the littlest of things. 

*****

Two days before Thanksgiving
my parents celebrated their 64TH
Wedding Anniversary!
They wanted Chic-fil-A to celebrate.
How cute are they?
I lit a candle for them so they could
eat by candlelight.
😍

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Over the Thanksgiving Break we checked off
a few things on our Traditions List..
One was getting the trees decorated!
We have three trees this year.
The front room tree has a lot of my
parents ornaments on it.
We've got a creme, gold and crystal theme
going on in there.

It looks pretty magical at night!

Thank goodness for my tree fluffers...

Our beloved "old world style" tree is 

one of our favorite things 

about Christmas!

Our tree in the basement family room has ornaments from 

our very first tree from ions ago...

Like baby's first Christmas {Kyleigh's}

It's like a throwback to a 90's

vintage country Christmas. 

😂

*****

The night after Thanksgiving we checked
off another tradition by going to
Christmas in Color.
It's 1.5 million lights
synchronized to Christmas tunes
is pretty spectacular and a fun way to
to kick off the Christmas season.

The kids had fun hanging out the windows

and seeing cousins reactions in the

truck behind us. 

Iceberg Shake after is sort of a must!

*****

Another tradish over the break
is working on a
gingerbread house ...

Here is Kate and I's masterpiece. 
😜

We like Gma Bells pre-made ceramic 

one much better. 

Speaking of gingerbread....

Try the gingerbread cookie at Goodly

if you get a chance.

It's scrumptious!

 *****

And of course there was the unveiling
of the advent calendar on Dec. 1st!
This year I found a cute one at
Costco that has better chocolate.
😜