Well, Hello December!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here. The lights are up inside and out, there are a few projects coming together here and there and before we know it, it'll be time to start baking....(or not, we all know that's not my strength!)

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend. EVERYONE was home, so Mom & Dad's house was a flutter of activity on Thursday. I think there were 35 of us for dinner, that's both my Grandma's, and all my aunts, uncles and cousins. That's pretty amazing to consider and not something that most kids can say. It was total chaos....but the good kind of chaos.

Before we left for Omaha, Maggie had to shop out another batch of collars! She will have some exciting
news to announce about those soon!

We also got the tree standing...right before I took this picture I found Gracie standing on the TOP of the ladder!

When we got to Omaha Wednesday our first stop was the bridal store, to try on flower girl dresses for
Nate and Bri's wedding. I'm going to have to hide them when they get here...they will want to spin in them everyday.

Thursday everyone got involved in the preparations. Maggie learned to polish silver (then asked why
anyone would actually have silver.)

Gracie made her famous Jigglers. It's a secret recipe :)

Grandpa and Maggie continued there tradition of stuffing making. Maggie prides herself on being
the Chief Plopper!

 

Maggie and Grandpa took a break to cut some boards for me. Those aprons are multi-functional.

Tucker and Oliver got a Black Russian Terrier puppy last week. He is
SO cute and reminded us of how little Reagan was. Somewhere along the line I think they are cousins. Reagan
didn't seem impressed :)

KIDS table!

Maggie found a new use for her dog collars!

No Arnie, you can't keep him!!
 

I was so excited to get all these goofballs in one picture....then I realized Elsie was already gone....it was almost the perfect Great-Grandkid picture....next time!

 

Silly, Silly Girls!

When we got home Saturday, the weather was great, so the girls decided to "play one more round".

Maggie was excited to share Jude with Gracie again.

We got the big tree decorated....

....and the Pinkalicous tree!

This month will fly by. We have school and church Christmas programs already this week and the Amazon boxes are arriving regularly! I love Christmas time....I just hope we don't let it fly by too quickly.