Get up! It's Christmas!!

The girls had a good Thanksgiving--we went to Cat Mama and Papa's house for the day and ate and relaxed over there. Cat Mama and Papa went to visit Matt, Laura, and cousin Ethan the week before Thanksgiving (and had turkey there) so we had ham for our Thanksgiving dinner. The girls were excited about that because they are pretty emphatic about not liking turkey!


We visited Great Aunt Mary in the hospital while we were there and Joel took them for a ride in her wheelchair (of course!).

The girls made sticky buns from scratch in honor of Gramma Ruth (Joel's Gramma) who passed away a few weeks ago. Ruth always had sticky buns for Thanksgiving (well, any occasion really!) and a few days before Thanksgiving Joel said that he wanted to go buy some sticky buns just like Gramma's. The girls and I surprised him and made him the buns from scratch, and they were delicious!! I think we will be continuing Gramma's tradition.

At about 6:30AM the morning after Thanksgiving, Larkin was in our room saying, "GET UP! IT'S CHRISTMAS ALREADY! LET'S DECORATE!!!!" So by 7:00 we had all the boxes out of the shed and ornaments everywhere! By December 1st we had the front trees all decorated with lights, the tree inside up and fully decorated, 12 new ornaments already painted, and Christmas cookies all baked (more on the cookies later!).

I love this outfit of Willa's--can you tell she dresses herself??! Skirt AND a dress, ruby red slippers, and a hat and gloves for 50 degree weather!