Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving has been a week long holiday this year. We had an early feast with just our little family. Then I got busy getting pajama pants sewn for Christmas Eve while the girls got a chance to play outside in the snow.

On Thanksgiving day we went to LeeRoy's parents and had a wonderful time eating and visiting together. LeeRoy worked out in their garage for a few hours cutting and drilling wood for crafts I am working on and at the end of the evening Emily gave us a wonderful lesson on being thankful for all of our blessings.

That night, Lacie was nice enough to spend the night and babysit so the day after Thanksgiving we were able to get up before the crack of dawn to do some BLITZ shopping. I know it sounds crazy but we had a blast and with the help of my wonderful mother we were in and out of each store quickly. After shopping we followed tradition and went to breakfast together. It has been a great week filled with my favorite things:
Food
Family
Fun

Forever Plaid

In high school our marching band went to a competition and we stayed the night in Las Vegas. While there we went to the Flamingo Casino for dinner and were able to see the play Forever Plaid. The other night while at the library with Emily I saw a poster advertising that the Playmill Theater was putting on the same play in I.F. I was so excited! My mom went with me and we decided to make a night of it. We did some shopping, went to dinner, and lastly the play. It was so good! We laughed the whole time.

Family Holiday

Yesterday was our "Family Holiday". It has been 4 years to the day since LeeRoy came home from Iraq. I still remember gathering outside the airport with all the other families. Emily and I waved the same little flag we waved when he left and we were so excited it seemed like it took forever for LeeRoy's turn to step off the plane.

Every year on this day LeeRoy takes off work and we let Emily stay home from school so we can do something as a family and just appreciate being together. This year we went to see the new Christmas Carol movie in 3D. It was great because we were the only ones in the theater. Wendy got a little scared towards the end but we all loved it! After the movie we spent the day Christmas shopping and then went out to dinner. It was nice to have a stop in the middle of the week and just have some fun together.