What a day!

We certainly had a terrific day! We celebrated Thanksgiving a little early this year. Dave fried a turkey and it was wonderful along with all the wonderful other food. Thanks uncle Mel for hanging out at the turkey fryer, sorry about the grease on your shirt. :)

Our turkey frying activity took a little longer than planned and thanks to our patient family things ended up just fine. :)

Then we all went to pick out that perfect Christmas tree. What a fun tradition.

Apparently when Uncle Mel and Aunt Kathy's tree was cut, a little family of mice scurried out of there and one I guess ran right over Katie's shoe. :)

Anyway, we pulled into the driveway with it strapped to the top of the minivan and both of our neighbors yelled, "hey Griswolds!!" We got a rather tall tree this year and it is beautiful. We needed a skinny tree for out room and ended up with a skinny and tall one too. Thanks to grandpa for coming over to "hang out" with Marina, the other two girls and I got it decorated. I should have taken a picture of it after they put the ornaments on. Lauren had her little section of where to hang them and Emma put hers all in a certain area too. After they went to bed, I spread them all out all over the tree.