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So it's the day after Thanksgiving and bellies are full. Jerome made a fabulous Thanksgiving meal for us, and although we were lonely without any family visiting, we had a very pleasant day. Poor Jerome had to work today, so he's sad, and I'm sad I'm not at any Black Friday sales. But other than those minor things, we have a lot to be Thankful for. Healthy and smart kiddos tops the list, for sure.
Because we didn't have company yesterday, it was very mellow and very lazy. We had a jammie-jam day, and the kids and I made crafts while Jerome cooked and prepared. We watched the parade while lazing around, too. Someday we hope to make it to New York to take the kids to see the parade in person. I did it as a child and LOVED it, and judging from their excitement and animation yesterday from watching it on TV, I'm sure they'd have a blast! Makenna about fainted when she saw a princess castle float - lmao.
We made a family turkey with all of our hand prints
and we updated our annual handprint/leaf with what the kids are Thankful for this year
We had made turkey hats at playgroup on Wed, but Jerome wasn't there so he didn't have a hat. He wore my hat, and I wore a pilgrim bonnet Makenna had made in preschool. It's a good thing we can laugh at ourselves! LOL
I have a couple random pictures from the past week for ya, as well.
Makenna cheezin in the front yard while scooting and watching Daddy put up Christmas lights
We went to the duckpond across the street the other day - those poor ducks were STARVING! They followed us around after we were done, and I felt bad we didn't have more. We like to get a bag of duck/chicken food, but we've run out so all I had were cheerios.
Our house is right over M's head :)
M sneaking cheerios away from those poor hungry ducks
pretty girl
handsome boy
Hello hello! I am quite behind in here, and although we've been busy bees, I don't have many pictures to share.
It's been a wet November so far so we've been stuck inside for more than we're used to. The past few days have been great though, and we got a chance to winterize the backyard by putting chairs, toys, grill, cushions, etc into the shed. It was sad, actually, to put the final nail in summer/outside play. We even did the final lawn mowing of 2008. Jerome was happy about that, but the kids will become restless and make me dream of a full finished basement all Winter long so they can run and bounce around. Darn our town's high water level and lack of basements!!
Pancake is getting bigger by the hour, and is still a chill feline. She puts up with a lot from my kids, and although they only want to love and hold her, they just never leave her alone!
We've been Christmas shopping for the kids, and I stocked up on stocking stuffers this past weekend. We are definitely doing Christmas Lite this year :( Jerome and I said we were going to skip each other to save some cash, but that didn't last long... of course we found some fun stuff we had to get. But we will pass on our big gift that we were hoping to get for each other - a Wii. Maybe sometime next year.
Just a couple pictures for ya:
Pancake!
How tolerant is this kitty! She stayed here getting her hair did in Kenna's lap for almost 20 minutes!
She even lets the kids push her around in the dumptruck
We did the Lowes craft a couple weeks ago too - it was fun as usual
Fall is so cool here. The leaves are pretty much done, but it's pretty fun being in a migratory path for the Canadian Geese. They fly over us by the hundreds - in perfect V formations. Then they all just seem to congregate in fields - how do they know to all meet there?? There will be thousands of them just sitting there sometimes.
The geese aren't the only things migrating... the Salmon are running right now. They are working their way up the small streams and rivers now, to go lay their eggs. Anyway, now is a great time to go to the waterfalls to watch them attempt to jump up. So this past weekend we headed up to Lucia Falls by our house and sure enough - we saw a few poor suckers jump (and fail). One pitiful salmon kept jumping right into a rock. That's gotta hurt!
There's one!
and this guy, right before he bounced off the big boulder - ouch!
then I went to the top of the falls, and saw this guy keep trying
