Thanksgiving was awesome...

my pictures were not. So I will just tell you about it. We spent the day in Napa with our dear friends, Lisa and Merrill. We had a relaxing morning of eating and cooking, a delicious dinner in the afternoon, and went to the movie and had pie in the evening. It was a good day. Lisa is such a fabulous cook, everything tasted amazing! It was such a relaxed day, we didn't even use a tablecloth. That's right, no formalities that day. In the next couple of years we will probably each have a fork and eat straight out of the pan. That will be awesome too.

The next day Jamie's aunt and family came by for a visit. They had been in Sacramento visiting family and used a day to come down and see us. We had a really nice visit. It was good to see them again and nice to have some family around, even if just for a few hours. Again, no pictures, but they were so kind as to bring us a gingerbread house the we put together on Sunday. The boys loved it!

They would put one candy on the house and then two in their mouth. The usual gingerbread house building process.

It was cute to see Parker figure it out and start to really get into it.

The finished product. We were all very pleased with how it turned out. My favorite, was when Jacob told Jamie to put 158 on the front. When Jamie asked why, he was told, "because that's their address". We asked him if he wanted to use our number instead and he said, "No, because their address is 158." How dare we question.

I love that it is Christmas time and I love that I have my stuff together a little more this year so I can enjoy the season as it comes, instead of wondering where it went.

We are so blessed and I truly am grateful.