I've stayed home sick the past couple days from work. Our family has really had bad luck with our health so far this fall/winter season. H1N1, strep, pink eye...you name it, we've had it! Anyway, I decided to gather up enough energy today to post a blog about our Thanksgiving. When I downloaded all the photos from my camera onto the computer, I realized I didn't take even one "family" photo. Or anything, for that matter, besides dogs. Yup, that's right. Spend a wonderful Thanksgiving with my parents and sister's family from Ohio...and all I have to prove it is pictures of their dogs. Oddly enough, there were about 20 pics to choose from, so I chose my favorite of Molly (Sheila's dog above) and Sophie (Parents' dog below) I am, however, thankful for much more than just cute snuggly dogs.
This is as close as it gets to any human in a picture. Of course, the picture was only taken because of how cute sophie was being at the time.
I was trying to clip Sophie's hair out of her eyes. It didn't last too long.
Might as well add some photos of our Christmas decorations. My snowman collection on top of my fireplace keeps growing a little every year. I realized that I forgot to turn the fireplace on before taking this picture. Brian and the kids are always complaining about how hot it is in the house because I always want to have the fireplace going at night while we are spending time in the family room.
I just love Christmas trees! As soon as it is dark enough every night I run to turn on my lights and just sit in the living room to admire it. (It's been up since November 21st)
My good friend, Sarah, brought back some special advent calendars from England on her last trip there. If you have never experienced European chocolate...then you just don't know how good chocolate really can be. Today is December 1st, so the kids dug in right after breakfast.
Sarah even bought one for Brian and I to share...but Brian wouldn't let me take a picture of him eating his chocolate this morning. haha
Austin and Madison just discovered that the wish bone from our Thanksgiving turkey was finally dried enough to break in half. Here we go...grab a side...pull!!!!
Can you guess who got the bigger side? She realized after celebrating that she never made a wish beforehand. It was sad to see how the expression on her face changed so quickly. Of course, Austin had a smile on his face.
