Thankful Through Christmas Decorating

I did not want to completely miss Thanksgiving, but it seemed to zoom right past.

I am thankful for family, friends, our new adventure which is almost a year along now and not that new anymore, and having a nice place to live, food to eat, and children who are slowly learning to appreciate these simple things. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and remembered to think about all their great gifts and give thanks for them.

Thursday we had neighbors over for Thanksgiving dinner and ate until we were ready to pop. The kids played until they were exhausted. The good china was actually used and nothing was broken :) Adding a pic of E consuming one of the legs of our 19 pound bird.

Friday we braved going to a few stores, but didn't find anything grand. G and M were still tired from playing so hard the day before (see sleeping in the van pic) We also got the Christmas boxes down from storage and began decorating. We found this year that making the decorating last 3 days helped the kids not get so out of control with excitement. Theme for the decor is: simple. The lights on houses here are beautiful and maybe next year we will go all crazy, but not this year.

Saturday, drove out to a little sand spit of land called Day Island right off Tacoma. what a beautiful little place. Old homes on two streets as tight as they could put them in and it overlooks the bridge and a beautiful piece of the Puget Sound. Decorated a bit more when we got home. Chilly Willy is in our backyard so we can look out the den windows and see him. He is not holding up so well and we hope he makes it through the season.

Sunday, played away the day, decorated the tree, and went down to the beach to see if we could find sand dollars (no luck).

I think that is our last quiet weekend for a while so I hope I relaxed and enjoyed it enough.

love and hugs,

B