Snow!!!!! Already!

December and the Christmas season was ushered in with the beauty of snow!  Yep, Snow!  We had our first official snow and of course 3 snow days already!  Of course this year Chloe loved the snow!  It probably helped that she could walk in it and actually play in it.  She had the best time just running around in the snow and picking it up!

Christmas Parade

This was the first Christmas parade we have taken Chloe too!  It was perhaps on the coldest morning thus far in the year!  At a freezing 32 degrees with a 20 degree windchill I wasn't sure if we should even take her out in it, however after we layered her from head to toe in warm clothing, we decided to go.

I must say she was quite the parade girl, all smiles and waves! 

Bah Hum Bug

Christmas has snuck up on me this year!  I am usually the gal who has her tree and all the tacky decor up the day after Thanksgiving and all my gifts neatly wrapped under the tree by Dec. 1st.  But this year I have a mild case of the "bah hum bugs"!  I wasn't really all that into putting up all the Christmas decorations.  I wasn't sure it was just having a very over whelming year or being just plan tired.  Either way I just wasn't in the spirit!  I tried all the usual things to get me going. Christmas music, punch, candy, a little shopping but no holiday spirit was coming out.
Finally Ricky urged me and we managed to get most of our decorations out, minus 2 trees and one snowman, and 2 deer.  I ended up not putting up our den and dining room tree, as well as several outdoor decorations. Oh well, I might get to it the day before Christmas!  If not, there is always next year!
I felt a little guilty because this is the first year Chloe really understands what is going on with Christmas and she sure is in the spirit.  Anything that has lights, sings, or sparkles makes her eyes light up.  If none of the other things put me in the holiday spirit watching one little girl decorate the tree and get all excited sure did the trick!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving came and went this year!   It was unseasonable warm, in fact almost 75 degrees.  We opened several windows in the house while we ate and even spent most of the afternoon out in the yard or sitting on the back porch!  It was nice, but we all knew that with this freakish warm weather would soon come some freakish cold weather.  We were right about 2 weeks later we received 3 days of solid snow!

We had our usual Thanksgiving feast, filled with lots of yummy things to eat and lots of funny stories to be told.  Perhaps my most favorite came from my Aunt and was about some kind of "special pony tail".

I hope that everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving, I know we sure did!