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Weekend Wrap up

December 1, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

I hope everyone had a restful and stressless holiday week!

Ours was spent getting all of those things done that pile on day after day and I was loving it.

We had Thanksgiving at home which was nice. Hubs and I both grew up only having Thanksgiving with our immediate family and so Thanksgiving at a house with tons of people although fun can be a bit overwhelming. Grandma was here of course.

Hubs cooked the turkey-I handled everything else and Row was awake this year.

We have literally been eating turkey dinner for every meal and it’s pretty awesome not meal planning!

Grandma and I geared up for some shopping! We live for drama-it’s true. We actually only go to one or two stores, grab our stuff and dart back home.

Waiting for thanksgiving

Waiting for thanksgiving

On Saturday we headed out to Dewberry Farms to cut down our annual Christmas tree. They actually shape them all year long and so they’re pretty much all perfect. It had been 80 and sweaty the day before as we hung our lights. Let it be known Grandma did some, hubs did some and I did some-not pictured is me of course. I also bought those star shower laser lights this year-AMAZING wait no LIFE CHANGING.

It begins

It begins

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And so since it was freezing Row might have been a bit cold/bundled.

Christmas tree cutting cold #itwas80yesterday

Christmas tree cutting cold #itwas80yesterday

After we rode the hayride out to the tree farm hubs walked out, grabbed a saw and said-Callie pick which ever one you want and hurry-so I did. He cut it down, and the boy handed him the tag we didn’t look at and realized that it was $200 we both almost fainted. He was a trooper though and it came home with us.

It's a little full and a lot big

It’s a little full and a lot big

It may be a little big is all….10 foot ceilings yikes-no tree topper this year and so starts our year of the most expensive live Christmas tree we will ever own.

Our $200 tree touches the ceiling- note to self check the tag before cutting next year

Our $200 tree touches the ceiling- note to self check the tag before cutting next year

But one the upside we have a memory and someone had the best day ever.

Somebody had a good time picking a tree

Somebody had a good time picking a tree

Why yes that is a Christmas Minnie Mouse.

 

Filed Under: Christmas, Cooking, Day Trip, Dinner, Home Decorating, Thanksgiving, Weekend Wrap Up Tagged With: black friday, christmas, chrsitmas tree, day trip, dewberry farms, lights, shopping, thanksgiving, turkey

May We Be Thankful

November 26, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

On this most wonderful day may we take a moment to be truly present.

Lord,

I pray you find each of us with our hearts full of your blessings. May we be mindful of the promise that your plan is better than ours. May we live each day with hope and gratitude. May we be mindful of the sadness and loneliness of others so that we may be your light in the world. May we model your love through our deeds. For we know the promises you have made to walk beside us in our times of joy and carry us in our times of grief.

I pray you find blessing this holiday in the smallest of things. Thank you for joining this journey with me. For the blessings you give me are far greater than those I can give.

Love

Callie

callie 4 years

Filed Under: Thanksgiving Tagged With: thanksgiving

Toddler Thanksgiving

November 20, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

 

IMG_3788So much to be thankful for. This week we were fortunate enough to host Toddler Thanksgiving at our house. This isĀ  the second annual Toddler Thanksgiving and seeing as Row has only been alive for 3 years I say we are doing pretty darn well as far as tradition and consistency goes Gobble Gobble.

I usually host our play groups Halloween party but this year between travel and birthday I just couldn’t handle it so I opted to take on Thanksgiving. Yay for Melissa for stepping up so our littles didn’t miss Halloween.

Our group has been together since our kiddos were born-9months up and I love having a group of women who show up, put up, stand up, and straighten up your kids. It is truly a blessing that has come to us at a time where many women feel isolated.

Our girls made it here through a tornado warning and heavy rain bringing their green bean casseroles and pumpkin treats. Hosting is always easy when we pot luck it!

The kiddos made hats-ok the moms made hats and we traced their hands but hey that’s a far stretch from last years events where they were rolling around on the floor and chasing each other.

They played and ate and had a merry good time. Oh and those Mamas cleaned up our trashed house. Bloomies you are truly a blessing.

Happy Happy Thanksgiving! I wish I had taken more pictures but I was eating! I contributed these amazing rolls!

Filed Under: Fall, Recipe, Thanksgiving Tagged With: rolls, toddler thanksgiving

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