Gotta Love 4 Day Weekends!

Isn't it funny how you spend almost 2 days getting ready for one meal that takes less than an hour to eat!  :-)  But it's so worth it!

We were blessed again this year to provide Thanksgiving dinner for a local family.  I bought their turkey the same time as ours and walked out of the store with 43 lbs of turkey!  I think my favorite part of Thanksgiving is loading up the back of the car and dropping off that meal on Tue evening!

For our meal, the kids were delighted to have Nana and Papa come eat with us!  It was a beautiful day too, so they were able to get some time outside to play while I worked on the big meal.

Thanks to my slow cookers, everything was done and warm at the same time!  Like usual, I made the meal free of soy, dairy, gluten, peanuts and tree nuts so everyone could eat everything.  We found a new treat this year, Rice Whip!

Of course it's not a holiday without matching jammies!

I did a little bit of black Friday shopping on Thursday night, but overall, I wasn't really feeling it this year.  Instead, I rang the Salvation Army bell during the day on Friday.  I think this will make a  much better tradition than fighting crowds for stuff we don't really need anyway!  The boys were sweet to visit me and bring coffee.

Saturday, we put up the tree!  This was the first year that Konny really got into it! 

We hung up our stockings...

Finally, our Elf on the Shelf, Hartzell, returned to us.  He's up to his usual elf antics already!

It was back to work and school this morning! 
By the end of the week, I'm sure we'll all already be looking forward to Christmas vacation!