It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Since we celebrate Thanksgiving the Sunday before, Monday morning I got up early and decorated my house.

Last year I added some red and black buffalo checked things to my Christmas, and this year I found a cute table runner to match.

I LOVE Mom's precious moments nativity on my piano.

It's all so cozy.

I'm so grateful we redid our fireplace a few years ago.

For the last few years, the church has being doing the Light the World campaign.  It has made my Christmas Season so much fun.  I'm very excited to start that this week.

Projects with the boys

Every month, both Lowes and Home Depot pass out little kits for projects that kids can make.  I have been collecting a few of them, and showed them to the boys on Thanksgiving.  They couldn't wait to have a sleepover so they could build some of them.  As soon as they arrived, they wanted to get started.

They built these cute jeeps, (and Logan also built the army vehicle)  The next morning, they went with me to Home Depot and got the kits to make these cute gingerbread houses.  

They did such a great job.  While we were waiting for the paint to dry, before putting on the stickers, they had a great time building with Legos, Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys.

Logan had seen an advertisement for IHOP's Winter Wonderland pancakes and really wanted to go.  Since Mike is still not leaving the house much since he has to use the scooter, I am a little leery of taking 4 boys anywhere by myself.

They had so much fun helping to make them.

 

Thanksgiving 2021

We have so much to be grateful for this year.  We were able to gather with all of our family, unlike last year.  Even though Covid is still running rampid, since most of us have had our vaccines, we feel more comfortable being able to get together.  I loved how everything looked. So glad I took pictures before, because once everyone arrived, it was so wild, I didn't take any pictures. 

Finally, Mike's post op Dr. visit

2 weeks after Mike's surgery, he finally got to go to the doctor and take off the HUGE splint and bandage that he'd been wearing since surgery.

They were able to do orthoscopic surgery, so he just had 4 little holes instead of a large cut.

They put in 3 large screws.

Now he has a sporty boot that he can take off to shower, Hooray!  

Just 4-6 more weeks with no weight bearing.  😑

 

Visitors from Abeline Texas

Crystal called the other day and said her dad had invited her family to come with him to Utah to pick up the last few things they were getting from Grandma Cline's.  She asked if they could stay with us and we said ABSOLUTELY!  We had so much fun with them.  Friday night, we got to tend Jordan's kids while they went to a movie, and they loved playing with Koda.

Logan and Parker adored him and had so much fun.

 Savvy was so sweet with him too!

 

I think we wore him and his grandpa out!

When Logan called me that afternoon, I was raking and bagging leaves.  When he got here, he was sad that there were not leaves to jump in, so I told him where the bags of leaves were, and he and Parker  were thrilled to dump one out and play in it.