Thanksgiving 2016

The week of Thanksgiving was full of work for our crew.

My parents have been in the process of doing some house renovating. The contractor they hired to do the outside work and his crew finished up putting on the hardy board and we started painting the weekend before Thanksgiving. We painted for what felt like weeks, and we were thrilled to see the end. Mom & I always say we forget how bad we hate to paint until we start.

Beau & his gang came in for the long weekend and Beau was lots of help finishing up some of the high trim and other projects. And of course, these little cousins were excited to be together!

DW & I also bit the bullet and did the next phase of our cabinet redo and tackled all of the kitchen cabinets.

Thanksgiving Day we spent the morning working around our house and then headed to Weik Iva for lunch with DW’s side of the family. It was a small crowd this year, but a great time together. The kids had a great time at their great-aunt & uncles home on the creek.

After naps at home, we headed to Mom & Dad’s for Thanksgiving Round 2 for dinner.

We all said Kristy saved Thanksgiving because she ended up cooking most of it while Mom was helping the guys finish up with house renovation. It was a wonderful meal and it’s always so good to have Beau’s family here with us.

That evening, the girls headed out for some Black Friday shopping. We hit a few stores and called it quits earlier than normal. We were all BEAT.

The next day we continued on our cabinet redo and then took Beau’s crew to see the new Bass Pro. Santa was there, and we thought we’d get a picture with all the kids, too.

Mamie had her list ready to tell Santa. This surprised no one.

The countdown is on and we’re officially ready for December!

~amw~