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We were right on top of it this year! We went as a family and picked out our Christmas Tree the Monday after Thanksgiving.
We did our tradition of going to the Merrill Family Christmas Tree stand. We love their trees. You can get a great tree for a reasonable price.
I think we picked a good one this year! I love the facial expressions on each of the girls faces. Hannah and Ashley were happy to be there. Nicole was bugged. She was cold and wanted to be in the house.
The Friday after Thanksgiving, all three girls performed at the NovemberFest, which is held at the Rec Center in Logan. It's a big craft fair that is held every year. This is the second year TaVaci has performed.
Here's a few photos:
Hannah practicing her speaking part....
Hannah had the idea on Thanksgiving Day that she wanted to get caught on camera jumping.
We would count to three, jump and try to catch the person in the air.
Here's some shots:
to notice that the pen she was playing with had leaked all over.
It seems as though the Holidays are always full of going here and there and doing this and that. This Thanksgiving Holiday was no different but we sure had fun!
Thursday we spent Thanksgiving with my mom in Mendon. Grandma arrived at our house with yummy dips around 2:00. Dave actually had to work so we coordinated our Thanksgiving Feast around him and didn't eat until 5:30. We had a yummy moist turkey that we started slow cooking from frozen the night before. I have decided that I won't cook a turkey any other way. It was so moist and yummy! We also had our famous sweet potato souffle, which all three of my girls loved. I made homemade garlic cheese rolls....another yum. Grandma made delicious mashed potatoes and gravy and a yummy cherry cheesecake. we ended the night by watching a movie and then taking Grandma home at 9 p.m.
On Friday, all three girls performed with their TaVaci group at the Novemberfest, which is a craft show held at the Rec center every year on Thanksgiving weekend. It was such a hoot watching Nicole. I'll post pictures of the performance later in it's own post.
After the performance, it was off to Nibley to enjoy round two of the Thanksgiving Feast with the Welkers. We ate dinner at the church and this allowed the kids to have a large place to run and play. Later in the evening, we returned to the Welker Ranch to enjoy pie and ice cream. The homemade apple pie was my favorite.
Dave took a couple of days off, which is giving him a really nice "long" weekend. He doesn't return to work until Wednesday. It was nice to have a weekend together (we don't get these very often) and to actually have two adults cleaning. Aaaahhhh......it brought a cleaning project of the storage room to an end and the amazing cleansing feeling throughout the body.
We worked in the house Saturday morning and then that afternoon we headed into town for family pictures! The girls did really good. The photographer was amazing with Nicole. The pictures are cute and I can't wait until I can pick them up on Thursday.
Then came Sunday.......now comes Monday and back to work and school.
I love this time of year. I love celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas. Too bad it goes by so quickly.
