Thanksgiving Post

Oh my gracious, this Thanksgiving I have SO much to be thankful for. At first this post was going to be a list of all the different things I am Thankful for this year, but I think that list might have gone on for days... let's just say I am one blessed lady! It has been a wonderful year for me and I couldn't feel more lucky. This was me and Shane's first Thanksgiving together. We headed down to San Antonio to spend it with my family since we will be spending Christmas with his family. It was so nice to get to be with ALL my family. It is hard to get us all in one place, but somehow we made it happen and it was an awesome time filled with lots of great food, a little bit of shopping, pedicures, some great catch phrase playing and lots of pictures. Just love family time. I hope everyone else's Thanksgiving was as wonderful as ours!

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas..

Okay so I must confess....I use to be one of those people that got so irritated when people put out Christmas stuff way early. Mostly for that fact that I hate that often times Thanksgiving gets looked over because people are already getting so ancy about Christmas. But guess what I did this past weekend? I put up my Christmas decor. Yes, two weeks before Thanksgiving.Yikes....I know I know! BUT I have a whole new outlook on this situation and I promise I will not judge others that put their decorations out early ever again! Here is my reasoning for my extra earliness this year:

1. Shane & I are spending Thanksgiving with my family in San Antonio this year, and I really really want to come home from the Thanksgiving break to a house ALREADY decorated.

2. We are also going on a two week vacation during the second half of December with Shane's family, which means I only get two weeks in December to enjoy the decorations at my house. This made me sad.

3. This is the first year that we have our OWN tree to decorate. I personally felt like this was a big deal!

So there it is, my three reasons. I also made sure that I am not overlooking Thanksgiving. Not at all. We actually have SOOO much we are Thankful for this year. It has been one special year for us. But I realized that it is completely okay to love Christmas decorations and as long as you don't forget about how special Thanksgiving is as well, you can put up you Christmas stuff whenever you like! No judgement here!

Poor Shane was sick with a stomach bug, but he still managed to help with getting the tree up. He is THAT great of a husband.

All lit up. I just love it.

 Of course my Nutcracker collection came out as well. This isn't even all of them. They are scattered everywhere. I try to get a new nutcracker each year.

And here is our Santa Cookie Jar. Found this little goodie at Target this weekend. Felt it was a must have! Shane made sure to let me know that there HAS to be homemade cookies in there at all times. Need to get on the baking pronto so he will be a happy camper.

Happy Halloweenie! (just a little late)

Our Halloween weekend through Pictures:

Okay, not a Halloween pic, but it came from the weekend of Halloween, and I like it. And I LOVE him. Lots.

Lucy wanted a picture also.

Trunk 'n' Treat at Highland. Our trunk was a campsite theme. So naturally we pulled out our flannel and were campers. I guess Greg and Shane thought they were too cool for flannel! ha

Shane came up with the brillant idea to do the go fishin for your candy at one of our trunks. It was lots of work for us, but the kids loved it!

On Halloween night, we decided to go to a Haunted house? Why? Good question. None of us were too crazy about haunted houses, but it was HALLOWEEN. It felt necessary to go to one.

Poor Shane had to put up with me going through the haunted house. I was not to keen on the idea of people jumping out a me. 

And of course I had to take a picture with my pugs and our cute scarecrow and pumpkins :)

Laundry

You know, I really don't mind cleaning and keeping up with the chores around my house. Sometimes I even find cleaning therapeutic. And it for sure makes me feel accomplished when I clean.  But there is one chore I can't stand.....folding the laundry. It is even hard to type it out because I dislike it that much. I don't mind the cleaning part of laundry. It is just the folding. Yuck. For the past two weeks I have been great about getting the laundry cleaned, but once it is done I throw it on the guest bed to be folded. But has it been folded? No, of course not. Two weeks of mine and Shane's clothes+towels+sheets is just piling up on the bed. Finally today I decided I have to put my dislike aside and....fold. 

Yes, it covered all of our queen size bed. Ridiculous.

An hour later, everything was folded and put away. Anyone have an advice on how to make folding easier/more fun/tolerable?