Happy Friday to you all! I am here recapping some of our Thanksgiving weekend. I will talk about two other parts next Friday as I didn't want this to get longer than it already is. I hope you all have a great weekend!
ONE. We have big things going on at our house right now with one of our bathroom renovations in full effect. We also have been prepping for Christmas. We cut down a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving and decorated a little early. I wanted to fully enjoy the Christmas holiday and with a shorter Christmas season, I started before Thanksgiving. I usually wait until the day after. Plus....we are headed to Disneyland next week! We haven't told the girls yet and don't plan to until the day we leave. We will pack the night before, but we are telling them we are going to the Bay Area to see family for a few days. Then the morning of, we will tell them that we are headed to Disneyland and we are flying there with my parents. I can't wait to see their faces!
They have been asking to go to Disneyland off and on for about 6 months now. Every time one of their friends goes and comes back, they ask to go. We always tell them that it is expensive and we have to save and plan for it. Which we have been doing just that. And we wanted to wait until they were closer to 5. So we are going for an early birthday present.
TWO. As I said above, we went and cut down a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. Where we live, you can get a tree tag for $10 and go out to mapped areas and cut one down yourself. They last sooooo much longer than the ones you buy at Home Depot or other local shops.
We do this every year with my family, but the last two years, we have been in Las Vegas for Thanksgiving, so we went a few days after we got back. This year, we had Thanksgiving locally and got to go out the day after Thanksgiving.
Here are some photos from the day:
It started snowing hard right after we cut our trees down, but after about 20 minutes it let up and we all hung out snacking and enjoying the day.
THREE. We also had our elf come back on December 1st for a welcome breakfast. Our elf, Giuseppe, gave the girls Christmas pjs, Christmas books, Christmas soft cozy socks and some Andes mints. Here is the set up we created.
Then we wrote a note to the girls from their elf and added a little message on their chalkboard as well. We have been moving him each night and so far it is easy with so many places. I think it gets so much harder as the month goes on.
FOUR. We had Thanksgiving dinner over at my in-laws house. Rory's side of the family came into town from California and Vegas. On actual Thanksgiving, it was just us, his parents and his sister and her immediate family. We had tri-tip (my BIL is allergic to turkey), potatoes au gratin, roasted cabbage and apples, homemade rolls, salad with his dad's special dressing and then we had apple and blackberry sour cream apple pie with vanilla bean ice cream for dessert. It was all really good and a very enjoyable evening.
FIVE. The day after Thanksgiving, we cut our Christmas trees down and then we had dinner at Rory's cousins house. This is where we did the Jersey Shore themed dinner. We had Italian food, lots of drinks, and played a bunch of games. I have some of the funniest footage on my phone from all the fun we had!
Here is my outfit (as I know a lot of you have requested to see it) and some of the fun we had!
I tried to make the black sunnies with a chain on them like Snookie wore, but I couldn't find all the supplies at a decent price.
I am linking up with April, A Little Bit of Everything, Meet @ the Barre and Becky.
Have a great weekend!
