Grandma’s Visit and Thanksgiving

Grandma actually just left yesterday, but already we all miss her! She came a week before Thanksgiving and stayed with us for 1o days. They were some of the best 10 days ever. Once again, having extra hands to help out and make life a little easier spoiled me. Grandma insisted on doing the dishes for us every day and would even kick me out of the kitchen to go do something else if I started the dishes first. Of course she made all of Kyle’s favorite dinners!

Kyle also blessed Thomas while Grandma was here. It was really nice to have some family here for the blessing. It would have been nice to have done it while Papa was here, but since we couldn’t do it then, having Grandma there was pretty special.

 

Thanksgiving was definitely different for all of us. We’re not used to seventy degree weather on Thanksgiving day, but that’s what we had this year! Kyle was planning on barbequeing the turkey, but never planned on being able to wear shorts and a t-shirt while doing it! The turkey was beautiful and everyone enjoyed the great weather. Grandma really got to experience it all here though because the next day was colder than cold.

We also decorated for Christmas this weekend. Kyle brought up all of our boxes and as we started going through them, I realized I didn’t know where I wanted to put things, so a lot of my day was spent trying to figure out where everything should go. We got some real garland to go up the banister and found where our stockings are going to be hung. Our Christmas tree was decorated and Kyle started the outdoor lights. He’s in the same position I was in on the inside of the house. We just don’t know what we want to do with what, but he got a good start. Now he just needs to finish!

We have found one other cool thing about Kentucky that we didn’t have in Oregon. It’s okay to be religious here. Saturday night we decided to go through what they call a Mega Cave that is decorated with lights for Christmas. It was so neat to go through and we may even spend the money again to go through a second time closer to Christmas just to keep us in the holiday spirit.

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We also took the kids to see Santa on Monday. I know it’s a lot in one post, but it’s been a busy week! This Santa was so cool! We got there when there wasn’t anyone else there. Santa was playing the guitar and singing Christmas carols. Then he spoke with each of the kids about what they wanted. After pictures, he asked the kids to sing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer with him before we left. I think this Santa may have been the real deal!

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Thanks for visiting Grandma. We miss you already!