Thanksgiving, Decorating for Christmas & ROLL TIDE!!!

What a BIG weekend we have had! Thanksgiving was great! We gathered at Mama Sally and Granddaddy's house for lunch. My parents joined us and we missed Amy this year as she spent Thanksgiving with the Drinkard's! We had way too much food and had to go back for supper!! Since Amy had to go into work at 3pm, Will brought Mary Hollis over!

We always get our tree the day after Thanksgiving and the Iron Bowl put a little kink in our plan but we managed to get it done just in time for the game! We get our tree every year from The Starlings. They have the prettiest trees in town! This year I picked out the first one Buddy showed me! It is probably the prettiest one we have had in a couple of years. We left our stand with the tree and LA came to pick it up for us and take it to our house. We then went home to fix some snacks to take to Lizzie and Brett's for THE GAME!!

We finally got t0 Lizzie and Brett's for the Iron Bowl. I was sick the entire game. I hate this game every year. No matter if we are 7-4 or 11-0. Game time was also Kate's nap time however she didn't nap. By the last 4 minutes of the game she was miserable. Jason went into Brett's tv room during the 3rd quarter to watch the game by himself. She couldn't decide if she wanted him or me. I went into the kitchen and tried to hold her in the football grip until she went to sleep but she would not go, so I just put her down. She then laid on the floor to pitch her fit. Finally, with a minute and a half left in the game she quit fighting and went to sleep on the kitchen floor! The game, in all sense of the word, wore her out!! I do LOVE Alabama Football but there are so many things that are so more important. While we were all caught up in the game The Patterson's were praying that their son would pull through it and The Johnson's were waiting in the waiting room of Children's Hospital to find out if their 3 year old daughter had cancer or not. So next time you get so caught up in your team losing a game, be thankful they are losing a game, things could be a lot worse!! Please do pray for the Patterson Family and the Johnson Family.

We stayed around for a little bit and then went home to start on the tree!! It was so late, well not that late, when we got home that I only got the lights and 8 ornaments on the tree! Those ornaments are the ones we get at Disney every year. I put the ones from last year on and then took the kids picture with the ones I got them this year. Kate was devastated when I took hers away and hung it on the tree. I decided that I wouldn't get the tree finished until she was napping the next day! Off to bed I went.....

Saturday I got all the fall decorations put up while Jason pressure washed the front of the house. He got the front porch done which was long overdue! Thanks, Jason! After all that was done I got the other decorations out. I accomplished a lot! Got the dining room table done, then I got my village out. Several of my light bulbs were out and I was out of snow so I had to make a run to Wal-Mart. While at Wal-Mart we ran into Lizzie and Brett and they bought Kate her very own Christmas tree! It is pink!! Got home, fed Kate and put her down for her nap. It was now time for power decorating so in the 2 hours she slept, I finished the tree, finished my village, decorated the outside of the house and then I began to clean up my mess as well as the mess the boys constantly leave around!! Then Lizzie and Walker came over to bring Kate her tree and help her decorate it! She knew just what to do and she was so proud of the finished product!! It has been a long day and so I am now off to bed!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I am thankful this year for my family, my friends, my health and all the many blessings God has given me.