Thanksgiving Weekend

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We sure did. Brian, my brother, came home from college for a week. It was fun to hangout with him again. Kyle really liked having "Uncle Rat" home again. He always misses him when he is gone. The picture to the left is Kyle and Uncle Rat sleeping on the couch.

We had Thanksgiving at Dad and Mom's house. Mary and I made the meal and Henry smoked the turkey. It turned out really well. Smoking a turkey is the only way to go. The only problem is no homemade gravy. But we made do. Mom, Michael, and Melissa were sick so it was a fun day. Kyle and Kristen ended up coloring, with marker and pen, on Dad and Mom's comforter. Luckily it came it. That was a close call!

On Friday we laid low. Henry had to work a little so Kyle and I set up the Christmas decorations. First we set up Kyle's Christmas train, Michael and Mary gave it to him last year. Kyle was so excited. He just sat and watched it. He loves to make "Kyle tunnels" (see picture). It is were he straddles the rails and the train goes between his legs. He thinks it is funny. We have most of our lights up now. We just have a few finishing touches to do.

On Saturday we went to Dad and Mom's and helped with their Christmas decorations. We got the tree up and decorated with the help of Michael and Mary and family. Everyone was sick, getting over it, or coming down with it so we didn't last very long. We got a few light up outside for them but the roof was wet from snow the night before and we didn't have the right lights for the bushes. So we will finish them this week when the weather gets better. We are not Black Friday people. We hate crowds, especially stupid people in crowds so we didn't head out on Friday, but we went to Costco for some Christmas gifts and got one for Henry too, a 37" HDTV. He is not one for waiting for we set it up when we got home.

Today we woke up to snow. It was bombing snow and we were only supposed to get a dusting. By 10:00 am we got a call, church was canceled. Thank goodness! I was sick and wasn't going anyway, but who wants to make the 20 min. trip in good weather in the snow and icy roads?! When it was all said and dome we got a foot of snow. Boy did they drop the ball on that forecast! I worked on getting the lights on the tree while Kyle and Henry played in the snow. Kyle has been waiting, impatiently I might add, for snow to play in. He really wanted to build a snowman the snow just wouldn't pack real well. After a nap we decorated our tree with the ornaments. Kyle would pile 4-5 ornaments on one branch. Henry and I had to go back and move them later. His favorite ornament is the Thomas the train ornament.

Kyle and Daddy playing in the snow.

Kyle decorating our tree.