Rewind Just a Little Bit

I'm going back into my pictures a little bit to see what I forgot to post.  On Thanksgiving weekend we stayed with Josh and Allison. On our way home on Sunday we stopped for our Christmas tree.

 

 Our second annual trip to Klucks Nursery. Another cold day, another successful trip.  I love this place.  You park your car walk all around the lot to find your tree.  Cut it, then drag it to be shaken and wrapped.  And then when your done with all that you can get some hot apple cider or hot chocolate and sit by a great big fire.  I'm sure I posted pictures last year of the fire.  Somehow I didn't take any of that this year.  I think I was too busy drinking my delicious apple cider.

 ahhhhh I wasn't so sure about this tree.  I didn't care for it much on the lot but I was feeling agreeable.  I thought oh geez how bad can it be, we have a ton of decorations, I'll make it work.

Turns out it is one of my favorite trees of all time.

 Jacob was about over posing for pictures.  I could barely get him to sit long enough to take any. Sarah on the other hand is like mom mom mom take my pic over here, over here and over here.

 I think these are Chase's favorite pictures.  They have to try several times till he thinks I've captures just the right jump.  They of course to post it and tag him right away. 

 3 stooges!!

 The decorating process.  Jeremy hangs the lights and then we all help with ornaments and getting it to look just right. 

The finished product!

So pretty, with my precious pup posing for his picture.

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year we went over to my Aunts house.  We usually spend it at my inlaws but decided to do something a little different this year.  We had a delicious meal.  The turkey was so good.  She lives in a little bitty house but it was perfect.  Everyone was together and we had a great time.  I did miss having my dad there but he was up north.

We took family pics of the groups of families that were there.  Of course my son would be the one to ruin the photo.  Brat 

 

  On Saturday we went to my inlaws to have a late Thanksgiving meal and celebrate my mother in laws birthday.  She loves her birthday and loves to celebrate it.  My father in law made her a cake and we were all able to be there to enjoy the day with her.  We finished off the night playing apples to apples.  Fun game, we were laughing awfully hard.  Such a gassy family.

 

We spend the weekend at Josh and Allisons house and on Sunday we went with them to get our Christmas trees.  We went to Klucks, in Saginaw.  It was a lot of fun.  We both found the "perfect" tree.  We took a wagon ride and had some hot chocolate around the fire.   

It's so nice to be close with my brother.  We weren't close growing up and I'm sorry for that.  I was not a nice sister.  Now I just love him to death.  He married the perfect girl for him and they have a nice little life.  Allison is a wonderful host and I love how she always wants us to stay at their house.  They were living in a little house, and recently bought a bigger home.  Now they can have us there overnight and I think thats where will be staying alot of the time we are in Bay City. 

I think this was one of the best Thanksgivings.  I am very thankful for all that I have.  It's been a tough year, but not compared to many other people so I try to think about the positive and move on.