Before we left for Thanksgiving, the boys treated me well for my birthday. We went out to dinner---and everyone was well behaved (which is the best gift a mom can ask for) and then they spoiled me with new boots!
We headed to Belleville this year for Thanksgiving...since travel is hard at Christmas but will be even harder this year since we are less than 5 weeks away from welcoming baby 3. Aaron and Brayden ran in the turkey Trot race...they both did great...and so did Roger who ran as well
Some of us just tried to stay warm on the sidelines....
Happy Thanksgiving!!!! The proud winner sported his medal....we had a great meal with the family at John and Carols complete with birthday cake!
On Friday night we headed over to Joe and Jenni's and we lucky enough to have another turkey meal...it was great to see everyone and the cousins were SUPER cute together!!!
This Tuesday we decorated our tree. Putting the tree up this year had to be done in stages....we have just been so busy and these kiddos make decorating an interesting feat. And Tuesday was nothing short of that....Marshall is becoming more and more feisty....wow he is a little pistol! He ripped all the beads off the tree and proceed to whip Brayden with them. Along with that fun behavior, he also ripped ornaments off the tree and stomped on a few...so this was the first year we had broken ornaments to deal with. However....when we were done (and by done I mean put like 10 ornaments up) we put the kids to bed and finished the rest. Here are a few pictures...we tried to capture the good moments so it looks like it was a warm, fuzzy event...but now you all know the truth!
Wednesday night Brayden's preschool had an Advent Celebration at church. The kids did an AMAZING job....I was a little worried about Brayden....he HATES to wear anything but tshirts...however he sported his sweater with a bribe of only 2 kisses. And, there were no tears about going on stage....and folks, he was front, center on the top riser. He did a great job....he did the hand motions and was singing all the songs. I wish we had a better zoom, or a video camera....but we did the best we could to capture it.
The star of the show! On a funny note...Brayden was very secretive about the songs that he was going to be singing...he would not tell us what they were. Well...for the last few weeks he has been running around the house singing something that sounded like "Beer Nuts, Beer Nuts, Don't Be Scared" and Aaron and I were both wondering where this song came from....well....at the performance they all sang "Fear Not, Fear Not, Don't be Scared---a song about not being scared since God is always there...wow he really butchered those lyrics :)
Friday St Nick dropped off new slippers and pjs for both boys! They were pretty pumped...and they love looking for Eddie the Elf each morning!
On a side note...the boys have been successfully sharing a room for a WHOLE week now. It still takes a while for them to fall asleep....but it worked!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!
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