Giving Thanks!

Well, I'm a bit behind, I know. I have been very busy working, trying to get my rhythm back just transcribing instead of working in management in my industry, PLUS my laptop died on me, so I don't spend as much time blogging as I used to.

We had such a great Thanksgiving. Heather and Alan came to our house and Justin and Krista hosted her family at their house - it was their first time cooking Thanksgiving and they said it all went so well! We are so proud of them! Our dinner was sooo good! This was the first Thanksgiving we have had with Heather and Alan in about 7 years! It was great! We were all so full, we could hardly eat dessert! We were going to play Wii and we were so stuffed we ended up just watchin a movie afterwards! lol Gettin old!

And of course - even Prissi enjoyed her Thanksgiving Dinner!

Justin and Krista stopped over the day after and we got to enjoy some time with them. Bailey is growing so quickly!! She's smiling now and I just love any opportunity to hold her and talk to her.

Good Lord - she looks like Justin when he was a baby!


And Charlee is sooo smart and it is just amazing how she has grown. We love having her come over and spend the night!! She was showing us how she makes a heart with her fingers and saying "I Love You, Mimi and Pap!" She is such a good big sister too! She always wants to hold Bailey and give her lovin and she talks to her! They are going to be close!

Charlee spent the night with us on Saturday and we got to go to the Venice Christmas Parade! It was a loooonnnng parade - you can see below that Charlee and Aunt Heather made the best of it being silly! She collected lots of candy and beads that was thrown at the parade!

Here's one of the floats in the parade -I love the movie "The Polar Express!"

It's hard to believe Christmas is right around the corner! So much to do, so little time -isn't that the way it always is? It's going to be a very nice Christmas, though, with Heather and Alan here - the whole family together!! I succeeded in getting my decorations up and my tree up and decorated it today - Heather and Justin both gettin on me cause they both got their's up first - hahaha!!

Love,

CherylAnn

I'll try to update more as we go through this holiday time!