My family, My thoughts, My life

It was such a nice weekend and I'm sad to see it end, but I made the most of every minute.  Thanksgiving was really nice, and we had such a good time with our families.  The food was amazing, and we are still eating leftovers.  We are so thankful for our families, and it was great to spend the day with them.  I got to meet the newest member of our family, Rachel.  It was so cool going from Kenley being the only baby last year, to her being the oldest of 3 now!  Kenley had a fun Thanksgiving, and took a little while to warm up at my Grandma's house, but was great the rest of the day.

I went shopping Thanksgiving night for the first time ever.  It was insane, but I am so happy I went because I was able to get Kenley's birthday present at a great price!  It was worth the hour long wait at Toy's-R-Us.  Ray came and picked it up around midnight, and then dropped me off at Kohl's to meet up with my mom and sister. Between us all being so tired, my mom & sister's cell phones dying, and pure maddness throughout the store, I panicked when we all got separated.  We were all delirious by the time we left the store at 2:00 am.  But, it was a fun, and I kind of liked not rushing out early in the morning even though I still made a quick stop at the mall to Carson's and Macy's.  I got quite a lot of gifts, and I even started wrapping a few!

We put up all of our Christmas decorations throughout the weekend.  I was happy at the end of the day when Ray started up the fire place for the first time this year, and it felt very cozy.  Kenley was so excited about every decoration, and she has had fun checking everything out.  Ray and I watched Kayla for the first time this weekend for a few hours, and my sister took our family Christmas photo before they left.  There was a lot of bribing going on, but we got a few good ones. 

I'm excited to do a lot of fun holiday things over the next few weeks.  We started "elf on a shelf" today.  I don't think Kenley quite understands it, but she has named our elf, Chewy.  No idea where that came from!  I can't wait to take her to see Santa, to play in the snow, to look at all the Christmas lights, to build our gingerbread train, and lots of other holiday stuff.  We have a busy couple of weeks between her birthday and the holidays, so it should be really fun.