this afternoon, we finally sat down to decorate our christmas tree. we have had it up since thanksgiving.
we also put up a few other decorations including a tree in luke’s room.
decorating the tree:
new ornaments this year:
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luke’s choice:
sara was taking a nap during all of this, so she missed out.
the other dayluke was playing with mr potato head. this is what he came up with.
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then he did this:
last week my nieces, amber & kelci, came down to spend thanksgiving with their other grandma who lives in mesa. they came out on tuesday and spent the day with us.
when we first got together, we went to lunch at islands. then we stopped by old navy just to browse. amber & kelci were pretty tired from driving all night the night before, so they came back to my house to take a nap. we all went to institute that night.
thanks for spending time with us. come back soon!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELODY!!
hope you had a GREAT day.
thanks for being the awesome friend that you are.
you’re the best!!
when we went out this afternoon, i picked up my phone to call my mom & noticed i had a message. i called to get it. it was our apartment complex asking us to call them when we could. since we were already in the car, we decided to swing by the office and i would run in to see what they wanted.
our first thought was “oh no, what’s wrong?” Anyway, as i was getting out of the car, i told jeff that i entered us in a drawing earlier this month for a turkey dinner that our apartment was doing. no way could that possibly be the reason they called.
i walked in the office and they said that we won the drawing.
what? are you
serious?
we now have a thanksgiving feast. (not that we need to make thanksgiving dinner) but, now we will & we will have lots of turkey sandwiches. we like turkey.
we got all of this:
an 18 lb. turkey all for us. sweet.
santa is already at the malls. wow!!
luke wnted to go see ho-ho (santa) at the mall yesterday. he doesn’t go sit on his lap or anything. he just likes to look & wave from a distance.
i know the pictures are not the best- sorry. we were upstairs looking down to santa. and i didn’t have my “good” camera.
luke was waving between the glass. santa did at one point look up and wave. but, of course luke won’t wave back to him.. he only waves when santa is not looking.
here are a few random pictures of luke & sara. sara just follows luke everywhere. and luke loves it when she looks at him & smiles/laughs.
( in the last picture luke is telling sara all about how a duck bit his finger while he was throwing bread to them)
luke is always so anxious for sara to wake up so he can play with her. when she wakes up, he excitedly responds, “sara up now”
the other day, i heard luke in my room where sara was sleeping. he was saying “wake up sara”, “please wake up”
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