Sweet Little Faces

Thanksgiving

I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving day! We sure did. We started the day by watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, something I have done every single year since I can remember. LOVE IT! Then, since both of our families live here, we got to spend some time with each. We began our feasting by meeting Adam's family at SAC for a yummy traditional Thanksgiving meal. Adam's grandparents were able to come down and it was so good to see them. He has such a sweet family- I am very blessed to have married into such great bunch of people! Then we headed over to my parents to have another traditional meal. Bring on the turkey! It never gets old. It was so nice to be surrounded by friends and family all day! I think there were 26 people at mom and dad's this year-pretty normal for us. The more the merrier!

Oh hey- guess what? I made my very first pie completely from scratch, even the crust (with the help of my friend Meagan)! It actually turned out pretty good

Mmmm... It had a cream cheese layer, a pumpkin layer, and the top was sprinkled with a mixture of pecans, brown sugar, chocolate chips, and maple syrup! Yum! Thanks Bakerella!

What a great day! Hey, can you believe there's only a few more weeks till Christmas? Yikes, better start my shopping...

Pictures as Promised

I promised I would post pictures after we decorated last Saturday and here they are...

Blueberry Cornmeal Pancakes

Yummo!

Hard at work...

The Finished Product(s):

Finally found a wreath for my front door!

I got this picture last year as a Christmas gift- I love it!

Adam and I kept Kennedy, our niece, that night after we finished decorating and we had so much fun!

Look at that sweet little face

We watched the original television Christmas Classics and she loved them! (My favorite one is Santa Claus is Coming To Town) She's so sweet-she watched all of them and wanted more so we started the DVD over. I had to run to Hobby Lobby really fast to pick up something and when I came home this is what I saw

How precious is that?

All in all it was a really fun day! I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and family who love Christmas as much as me!

Blogging Take 2 (maybe 3 or 4)

Ahh! I'm really horrible at this! Oh well, I will chalk it up to my personality type and move on. I can't believe that its almost Thanksgiving! This year has flown by. I absolutely love this time of year. We are putting up our Christmas decorations this weekend and I cannot wait! I am going to make it a Christmas day starting off with some blueberry cornmeal pancakes with orange maple butter ( thank you bakerella), followed by an afternoon of Christmas decorating, Christmas music, and Christmas movies! My sister thinks its crazy to decorate before Thanksgiving and some of you probably do too, but here's the deal: we always help my parents decorate their house on the day after Thanksgiving - we wouldn't be able to put our stuff out until the weekend after the weekend after Thanksgiving and that just doesn't give me enough time to enjoy it- so we decorate before! I get to soak up my Christmas tree for a whole extra week than most people!

In other news, Adam and I recently painted our bedroom and got new carpet and we are loving it! We also got a new bedspread to top off our little makeover, whatcha think?

It has these cute little birds on it, and if you know me-I'm a sucker for cute birds!

We love it!

Also, I ordered some scentsy stuff and it just came in and I am so excited to use it! This is the warmer. Its pretty much a wickless candle- they are awesome, I have decided.

So, I always tell myself that I am going to keep up with this and post often but I obviously have not, and it probably holds little value when I say that this time I really am going to try, but really....I am!!!!! Not because I think that you are just dying to know what's going on in our lives but because it helps me remember things, ha. I can organize my thoughts and pictures and use this as sort of a visual timeline.

Anyway, I hope that those of you who do read this are doing well and enjoying this wonderful fall (almost winter) weather! I promise I will write again soon!