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Long weekend happenings

December 3, 2014

After our great Thanksgiving, we thoroughly enjoyed having a few days off together with no plans!  Well, no plans other than check on the new house, go to Lowe’s (shocker), and start cleaning out our current house for packing.

Robert and I took the day off Wednesday and we were all up and going early. After a morning trip to Lowe’s, we decided to stop off at Bass Pro on the way home just because…

bass pro

For the record, it’s actually a great place to go kill an hour on a cold day. There’s tons to see and they have a whole Winter Wonderland area with Christmas decorations, crafts, a carousel and Santa!  We were too early that day for Santa but we may be back!

bass pro

The boys had a blast and I was shocked at how many people were already there at 9am in the morning!

We then had a great Turkey day but, the day after Thanksgiving, Spencer was sounding really congested, croupy, and wheezing so we made a trip up to the doctor to get him a steroid prescription and another albuterol mask.

doctor

I hate when my buddy is sick but he handled it all just fine…wind chapped cheeks and all!

spencer

The rest of the weekend was spent stopping by the new house…

house

going back to Lowe’s (check out Maxwell’s awesome bed head!)…

bedhead

and enjoying the pretty weather.

outside

We even took time to make the new house look Christmas-y!  This makes me pretty darn happy!

xmas house

Finally, on Sunday night we put on our Christmas shirts to go to the Advent Workshop at church.

xmas shirts

cheese

The boy made some cute crafts and we all got into the Christmas spirit!

advent workshop

We’re in the home stretch now for our big move and it can’t come soon enough!

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Thanksgiving in the Gump

December 1, 2014

Happy Monday! Hope everyone is feeling great (and not too stuffed!) after a long holiday weekend. We thoroughly enjoyed our holiday and had a great Thanksgiving day down in Montgomery. Jenny nicely offered to host and cooked up a big feast but I did take the desserts.  I made a pumpkin pie (which I love but Robert thinks is nothing short of a waste of a pie) and a pecan pie.  Both were really good (if I do say so myself!) thanks in part to my kitchen helper…

pie crust

For my memory, I branched out from my mom’s tried and true shortening pie crust recipe and went with an all butter crust from Smitten Kitchen.  Turned out great!

That morning, I actually got to pick out Maxwell’s clothes and had him looking cute and dressed just like Spencey!

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Thanksgiving twinkies!  🙂

We got down to Montgomery around noon and Ronnie had ordered this cardboard rocket ship for the kids to color all day – total genius move.

rocket ship

The boys especially loved it! We had a fun day all around watching Ronnie fry the turkey…

turkey fry

feeding the kids an early “feast” of their own…

tgiving

and then letting them have one of the turkey cookies I made along with the pies!  gobble gobble!

turkey cookies

It was a beautiful (albeit chilly!) day and the cousins had a blast running around outside on the golf course.

outside

outside

tgiving

In fact, we all enjoyed the sunshine that day!

tgiving

The meal was fantastic (thank you Jenny!)…

tigivng

and we enjoyed the outdoors just as much after the sun went down…especially with the fun(ny) head lamps and glow sticks for the kids!

head lamp

Let me tell you, you haven’t laughed until you’ve seen Spencer running around with a headlamp on!  ha!

Overall, it was a perfect day that made me realize how thankful I am for my entire extended family and definitely for this guy…

tgiving

and these little turkeys!

tgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Tis the Season!

November 28, 2014

Thanksgiving is over and it’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas…

bass pro

Especially at Bass Pro!  🙂  Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and is enjoying some leftovers today.  See you next week!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 27, 2014

I have so much to be thankful for this year but the top of my list will always be my boys…

thankful

including this boy that might or might not be a boy after all!  We’ll see in 8.5 weeks!  🙂

31 weeks

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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My boys

November 26, 2014

Cute…

boys

Cuter…

cute

Cutest…

cute

or maybe it should just be cutest, cutest, cutest!  🙂

Hope you’re all getting off of work early today – or are already off! – to enjoy the holiday weekend!

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