Thanksgiving and Christmas Tree Decorating

This year we spent Thanksgiving with the Lopez family. We had an amazing meal which included turkey (of course), corn, veggies, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, bread, cranberry relish, and red chili. Issac LOVES red chili on his Thanksgiving dinner. I prefer traditional gravy, which was also provided... and was amazing! Dessert was pumpkin pie with whip cream... also amazing! We had a really fun time hanging out with everyone, telling jokes, and watching Andy wrestle all the kids until they almost pee-ed their pants.. haha!

On our way back to Santa Fe, we stopped by the Rivera house and had a little more pumpkin pie and set up dominoes and pushed them over a few times. It was awesome to spend time with both families.

We also set up our Christmas Tree during the Thanksgiving holiday. We like to have it up as long as we can. It's pretty and brings a lot of color to the house, plus it's just another reminder that Christmas is coming soon! The kids did most of the decorating. I put on the lights with help from Courtney and Savannah. Issac put the tree topper on and explained to the boys how that's their job when they get older - only the man of the house puts the topper on, not the wife... haha! He also told the girls that they should never try to put a topper on, that's their husband's job! We had a good time decorating the tree and enjoyed the fire in our fireplace.

~Kristi