Wow ~ What A Week!!!

Finally, it's Sunday night ... I've been dreaming about putting everyone to bed just so I can wake them all up in the morning for school!!!
Thanksgiving was wonderful ... sad because we had no "family" around to share the day with us, but the weather was great and we got a lot done in the garage (cleaning) and had an awesome meal ... our turkey was so big, it wouldn't even fit in the giant roaster (the biggest one that would fit in my oven!!!) We may not have had any of our east coast family, but we did get a few special visits from our very important midwest family ~ our "old" nanny, Katie, Susan's niece Jessica, and Susan's mom & dad (who we absolutely adore)!!!

On Friday morning, Bahar & I left at 4 am to go out for Black Friday ... we really didn't have a particular item we were trying to get, but we had so much fun! I did copy this idea for a tree topper from the Kohl's flyer (but I made it with stuff from Hobby Lobby & Big Lots because the candy canes at Kohl's were like 10 bucks a piece!) Rob couldn't stand being at home and left shortly after 6 to hit the stores we hadn't gotten to and then we met up at Home Depot (for a gorilla ladder ~ which will be great when Rob starts painting ... shhhhh! don't tell him ... I haven't told him yet!!!) and then we got some breakfast. Believe it or not, Bahar & I beat him back home. He had to stop for bathrobes ... the newest "thing" here at our house. Both big boys had to have one ... you can see Brad's in one of the pictures below. The good news is ~ I think the robes are taking the place of the night-night strings and our long, lost Pebo HOORAY!!!


Old Katie" came for a weekend visit, before she leaves this Sunday for Colorado ... working & training for a few months before trying out for the big league!!! Go Katie/Kaney ;) She, Brad, & Stephen went to see Madagascar II & loved it ... they ate so much popcorn that they didn't even want dinner!!!







Another super-fun thing about this weekend was decorating for Christmas ... the little boys were so totally into it this year & of course, Bradley & Stephen were "in charge"! We got a very, very special treat this morning when we got up to finish our work ~ it was snowing!!! Huge, wonderful flakes fell for hours & hours and gave everything a truly Christmas-y feel!!! We are so in the mood for Santa!!! Everything looks so good & we are really proud of our work ... especially because ...


We are expecting very special visitors tomorrow ~ Bryn, Baby Colton & Trey are coming to visit until Friday ... we are so totally excited!!! They won't get here until late tomorrow night, but I'm counting down the minutes until they arrive. This will be our very first chance to see the baby & we haven't seen Bryn since the summer. We are looking forward to seeing Trey, too ... and we haven't seen him since his visit here in August.

Kayla has been busy babysitting all weekend ... saving up for that iPod touch ... she's more than half way!!! I don't know who's more proud ... Kayla or her dad (for her steadfast thriftyness as of late!) ... although they did get into a large disagreement about Webkinz at the hardware store ... she thought she needed one and he thought she didn't. Funny, he asked her what her angle was when she suggested she'd go to the store with him ... dad's always seem to know, huh??? Mine always did ... that's for sure!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!!!

Much Love to You All!!!