November. It was a nice "normalish" month before the holidays. There's a festive feeling in the air, but we wait until after Thanksgiving to make it really feel Christmassy. We hosted all the Grandparents for Thanksgiving and had a great day... the kids enjoyed watching the Macy's parade, and the day just felt relaxing. Then it was on to Christmas! We got our tree the day after Thanksgiving and I am totally ready to get ready for the best time of the year!
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| School. :) |
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| Go Crew! It was so fun watching you play this season. |
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| Finished the Halloween puzzle! |
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| Someone is already feeling the Christmas spirit! |
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| Mission possible event at church. Making bouquets to brighten someone's day... he gave his to our neighbor Shelby. :) |
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| The boys both started basketball at church. I was a little nervous for Briggs because he didn't have friends on the team already, but he is loving it! |
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| "Heart World," by Crew. |
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| Beautiful pic by B. Cabin with stone walkway. |
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| Proud of Crew for getting dragon of the week! Hate he was sick at the beginning of his week... Ms. Abell sent this pic so he would know he got it. |
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| Time to toss the acorns over the fence! |
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| After celebrating Veteran's Day at school. |
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| Leaf pile! |
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| Birthday at Bodhi's. |
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| After SEVERAL years, we got to have our girls sleepover at the old house! |
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| Charley's first Panthers game (and Lil's first in so many years). |
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| Meanwhile, the boys got to watch the airplanes take off with Grandma and Grandpa. |
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| She challenged herself to make Tanner's breakfast entirely with her paws on. Haha ;) |
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| Charley's room make-over. |
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| Shopping for basketball shoes with Daddy. |
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| Charley is running for 6th grade representative. Go, C! |
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| Home sick and making monsters. |
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| Charades. :) |
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| Crew's house on Ms. Bacon's card. |
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| Christmas show with Mom and Dad. |
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Self proclaimed best track ever, by B. I agree... it's great! He and Crew built this one all by themselves.
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| Ears pierced! Third time's a charm. ;) Not pictured, Lil got her second piercing on both ears. |
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| Weekend at Biltmore (thanks to Mom and Dad for holding down the fort). |
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| Lily was using an app to create a Billie Eilish song. B loved it. |
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| FINALLY, I am working on Crew's baby book! Only been on my to do list for... oh, five years. ;) Makes me happy to work on it and I'll finish it before too long. |
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| Unicorn Charley. |
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| Music store with Daddy. |
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| They finished their book (The School for What Nots) -- Yay! |
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| Trying for a Christmas photo shoot. |
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| Bloopers. |
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| Crew's placemat at his Thanksgiving feas. |
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| Thankful for you, Crew-boo! |
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| I went to Lowe's for a string of Christmas lights and came back with a Bluey. It's an era. |
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| Look at Crew's writing in K. |
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Crew's turkey, haha. They had to disguise their turkey so it wouldn't be eaten... Crew followed in his siblings' footsteps and made a turkey Santa
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| Magnatile skates. |
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| Charley, the "AI robot", who follows Lily's commands. |
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| Homemade cookies for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin & cinnamon. |
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| Having fun getting gumballs at Blackhawk. |
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| Macy's Thanksgiving parade! |
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| Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for ALL of you! |
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| After dinner wordle. :) |
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| Made me think of Gillian, of course (her old shirt). |
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| Helping Daddy plant in the garden. |
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| Day after Thanksgiving... time for Christmas! OTW to get our tree. |
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| "Do the reindeer!" ;) |
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| The traditional toss up pics... |
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| Getting big. :) |
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| Lol. |
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| Thanks to Grandma for keeping the leaf pic tradition alive. So pretty! |
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| Monster mini golf. We went to check it out for Crew's birthday party. He was a little scared at first but then had a lot of fun, |
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| Happy Advent! Briggs' art was on Dec 1, so we didn't have long to wait. |
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| Wonderful seeing both boys' art in the advent devotional. |
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| Happy Charley got to spend the night with Addie and visit the tree farm with her family -- Christmas trees, animals, playing on hay bales, and qt with a best friend. |
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| This is me hanging outdoor Christmas lights. It was cute because I was using a hammer that said "Daddy can fix anything," Briggs ran in without me knowing what he was doing and printed off a label that said "Mommy can fix anything" and put it on the ladder. Thanks B! ;) |
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| I love Briggs' new request to bring my book in and read beside him. He and Grandma did this one night and he obviously really liked it. Cozy. :) |
Here's to the best time of the year.
