Thankfulness End

With all the chaos that happens over the holiday weekend, my Thankfulness countdown has been neglected. So rather than try and catch up I think I will just end it now since tomorrow is that last day of the month anyway. We really did have a pretty nice holiday weekend. I spent the majority of Wednesday night and Thursday in the kitchen. But as I have stated in past posts, I love to cook. I am blessed to have a husband who is willing to help out with the cooking too. This was the fits holiday meal that I have had to fix on my own. It really was not too bad!
Friday was my birthday. TJ made me a birthday cake from scratch. What a great husband! Neither one of us are real big shoppers so there was no black Friday shopping for us! That evening we headed to the Christmas Train. TJ posted about it in the previous post. It has become a tradition for TJ and me. We love to go and spend that time together. It just gets the Christmas season going for us. It was so much fun to share it with our nieces and nephews this year.
Saturday was all about the Christmas decorations. TJ and I love real trees so we got up and went on a hunt for the perfect tree. I think that we did a pretty good job! We got it home and then put up the outside lights. Personally I think that it turned out pretty well. Since moving into the new house, I realized that we don't have nearly enough decorations to fill up the bigger house! Oh well. We can add to it as we go. I will post pics of the house later.
Sunday was church. We LOVE our new church and are so excited to be attending there. For lunch, TJ's family came over again. We had a simple lunch of sub sandwiches but my nieces and I made brownies. It is so fun to have them help in the kitchen. I know I loved helping my family growing up. I hope Kiah and Ryann have the same memories when they are grown! After they left, TJ and I just relaxed for a little while. It was the first time all weekend that we really just got to sit and breathe. That only lasted for so long though. We headed to our friends house for a chili dinner. Wow can Alison cook! It was so good. There is nothing better than good food, good friends and great conversation. We got to play with our two favorite girls for a while too. Love those kids! They got me an amazing picture for the wall. It is the Serenity Prayer. That is a prayer that Alison and I both hold close as it has gotten us through so many tough times the past few years. So blessed to have such good friends!
So that was our Thanksgiving holiday. I hope everyone else had a great one too! Now we have about 2 weeks before the Christmas chaos begins! Bring it on!