A Weekend to be Thankful For

We are all a little sad to see this weekend come to an end.  It was a wonderful holiday and so nice to spend four days together as a family doing lots of fun things. We started with Thanksgiving.  Julia helped me get ready by putting together cheese and vegetable trays.  She made turkeys out of apples to decorate them.  You can kind of see one in the upper right corner of this tray.

Of the Thanksgiving dinner Julia ate turkey and a little bit of a roll.  She was also a fan of the cupcake we had for her!  Thanksgiving night ended with a new pair of pjs – getting us ready for the next big holiday!

Friday was a quieter day, spent hanging around the house, taking out some Christmas decorations, getting lights put up on the house (Andrew decided it was in his best interest to take advantage of the 60 degree weather for that task!), and taking care of chores.  Then  Saturday we jumped right into Christmas season with a trip to the tree farm to pick out a Christmas tree for ourselves, Grandpa Rick and Grandpa Lesley, and Aunt Katie.  We tried a new tree farm in CT and were very pleased with it.  It helped that it was close to 60 degrees again but of course, we still found our tree on the furthest plot of the 100 acre farm!  Here are a few pictures that Julia took documenting her day.

   

From the tree farm we headed back to Grandma Lesley and Grandpa Rick’s house to help them decorate their tree and to celebrate birthdays (mine, Merrill and Grandpa Rick’s)!  Julia and Alex were really excited to decorate the tree and did a great job putting up the ornaments. 

Then this morning it was our turn to decorate.  Again Julia was excited to get the ornaments out and help decorate.  We also put a little tree in her playroom so she had fun picking some ornaments for her tree and decorating it how she wanted.  I’m sure this will be a recurring project in the coming weeks.

Here’s a before and after of the “big” tree! (Really not that big because we have surprisingly low ceilings in our house.)

As we were decorating, Julia loved hearing us tell her the stories of our different ornaments, when we got them and where they came from.  It was fun to see her really take an interest in it and ask questions about different things. This is definitely going to a fun holiday season.