We started our Thanksgiving week out with a big meal on Sunday, November 23rd, with my family. Mom made a delicious meal, we watched some football, the boys played the Wii, and the guys played some cards. Connor and Jacob are hilarious boxing each other. All we heard about for awhile was the Wii- thanks Grandma and Grandpa! ;)
Thursday morning we headed to Eau Claire and Connor and I met up with Angie, Carter, and Audrey at the Community Table where we volunteered and helped serve the Thanksgiving meal. The kids helped make place mats and brought the trays of food to the people sitting down. Connor even made the news. It was a great experience and I'm glad Connor got to do it.
The rest of Thursday and Friday we spent with Nana Barb and Angie, Carter, and Audrey. Matt, Angie, and Barb even woke up early on Friday to hit some of the deals shopping. The kids played so great together. Connor and Carter are so much alike, and Audrey and Jacob hit it off this time. Jacob loved playing with Audrey's doll and doing hair. Before we left Matt had to make sure they did some rough housing becuase of all the "girly play". We were sad when it was time to leave. We were having a hard time getting everyone to smile in the picture with Nana and all the grandkids so Matt was behind me dancing (slapping his behind) and singing "We like to move it, move it". It worked!
Friday afternoon we headed over to Papa John and Yaya's. They also have a Wii and Connor was so excited. We played it quite a bit. We were playing golf and it was Matt's turn. He had to take a few extra swings and Connor says, "It's no fair, daddy gets to have more turns than me!" We all got a chuckle out of that and had to remind him that it's not good if have a lot of turns in golf, you want to have fewer swings - the lower your score the better. Needless to say Connor wo, he's quite the Wii golfer.
Matt brought home a book called "Koko the Monkey lost in Bangkok" and Connor loves to read it to everyone. He read it to Carter and it was the first thing he did when we got to Papa John and Yaya's. Papa John asked Connor if he had ever tried coconut. Connor told him no, so later that night they bought a coconut and had quite an adventure. You can see the pictures.
Friday night we went to Irvine Park in Chippewa Falls. They light up this park and have little scenes set up. It's beautiful! They also have this little story book area where you can drive by and read Frosty the Snowman and Twas the Night before Christmas. We all took turns reading a page, even Connor. He did amazing and was so proud of himself!
Saturday we went to Pleasant Valley Tree Farm and saw Santa and Mrs. Claus, a live Nativity, and picked out our tree (quite the adventure driving home with it on the top of our van).
We then tried to go to Madagascar 2, but they sold out right before we got to the booth. We headed back to Papa John and Yaya's house and hung out before we headed home.
We had such a great time and it was wonderful seeing everyone!
This morning we went to church where we lit the first Advent candle. Jacob and Nolan normally stay in the nursery during mass and Connor has Sunday school. However, this morning there was no Sunday school and we wanted Jacob and Nolan to come up to light the candle with us. We lit the candle at the beginning of mass, but trying to keep Nolan occupied and quiet for that little bit of time was stressful!! ;) Matt took them down to the nursery right after we lit the candle. Normally Matt comes and joins us in the pew all by himself, however this morning I see Jacob with this HUGE grin on his face holding Matt's hand to join us in the pew. He was determined to come up with daddy and join us. He even let us know, along with the rest of the congregation, that he was a "big, big, BIG, boy". He did a great job, and we'll see what he wants to do next Sunday!
We put up the tree today. A usual 1-2 hour project turned into a 6 hour project. I think anything that could go wrong did. It's a big tree so we had a hard time getting it to stay in the stand and we couldn't get it straight. After we had the lights hung and we were ready to plug them in we noticed that the wrong end was left, so we had to unwrap them all and reconnect them. After the decorations were put up, we moved the tree into the corner, but couldn't get it to stay straight, and we found a big crack in the base. We had to take the tree out of the base and lean it against wall while Matt went shopping for a new base. He went to Lowe's and they didn't have anything, so good ol' Fleet Farm provided. We finally got it into the stand, got it straight, and got all of the ornaments that fell off back on. The boys had a fun time decorating it and climbing the ladder to reach up high. It's the best looking tree ever - or at least we're telling ourselves that because of what a pain, I mean "joy" it was to put up! ;) We will be talking about this tree decorating for a long time.
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