Thanksgiving activities

Another busy holiday season has started! We enjoyed Thanksgiving this year with my family, it was a nice quiet day of relaxing. Unfortunately my brother and his family couldn't be there this year, but they were connecting with our family in IL and Chirsty's in MO. We look forward to seeing them around Christmas. The kids enjoyed the meal and playing. Tanner, my parents dog, enjoyed all the excitement and playing with his pal Daisy. :)

We did a little Christmas shopping on Friday but not much. Guh!
We of course worked on the house a lot. We're getting there!! We have our last inspection this Thursday, once that is over than we will be able to relax a little more. Although there is always stuff to do it won't be as pressured like it was. It's looking good, I must say. We are excited for you that haven't seen it yet to stop in for a gander. I'm still working on the decor part, but day by day it feels more like home.

To round out our Thanksgiving, Saturday Ron & Ginny invited us to participate in the Mt Vernon Christmas parade to help advertise their Christmas tree farm. The kids had a ball. It was really cold but once we got moving it wasn't bad. To our surprise we won a trophy! Best Christmas Theme!! That was kind of cool! I posted a picture below:


(Ginny played the bagpipes and walked ahead of Ron who was pushing the wagon with the signs and tree-Kirk and I walked behind Ron)

We hope you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

The first Snow!

So as Brady was getting ready to get on the bus, a wonderful thing happened! We had our first snowflakes of the season!!! It was a wet snow but they were there, Brady, the girls and I hurried over the the window to watch. It was very exciting!
Throughout the day we'd look outside, a couple of times it was actually more snow like rather than the wet stuff.

Winter here we come! :)