Thanksgiving

What was I thankful for this year?  Oh man my list is intense...and long, but one of the big ones was having a house to host Thanksgiving dinner at!  We moved into our house Wednesday, with not a moment to spare.  :)  We have been pushing and pushing and then pulling and then pushing some more trying to close on our house early.  As it turned out, we closed on our house late, and barely made it before the holiday.  But the important thing is, we were in it!  It was crazy, and hectic, insanity from beginning to end, but somewhere in the midst of all the mess, we had breakfast burritos in the morning and Thanksgiving lunch/dinner in the evening, and it was all pretty darn good if I do say so myself!!  I had lots of help from everyone (in fact, I still have not cooked a turkey...thank you Andrea for letting me put that off one more year).  Throughout the whole day I kept looking around and seeing boxes and packing  paper and bubble wrap scattered about with random items from random boxes laying anywhere there was a flat surface, but it did not seem to tone down the laughter or the smiles, so I guess a perfect house is not all it's cracked up to be.  Really it was exciting, kinda like a scavenger hunt.  Need a spatula?  Look in one of the kitchen boxes, I am sure one will turn up eventually.  (and if you want to be honest, it may not even be in the boxes marked kitchen!)

everyone helping and hanging out in the morning:


boxes boxes everywhere!


starting to get food on the table:


looking yummy


ready to eat!


everyone looking at the Black Friday ads before heading to bed


even Chaos got in on the action


Rob and Jen had to leave the next morning :(  Their visit was WAY too short and we can't wait to see them again!  Friday was great, we did a little shopping and a lot of relaxing.  Saturday night we celebrated Jonathan's birthday.


And then Sunday morning Grandma, Grandpa and Auntie Ann left.  The house is WAY too quiet now.  So I am holding out for when my mom gets here in December.  :)  In the meantime, I have A LOT of unpacking to do!  Jonathan is working like crazy since Amazon's peak season is obviously Christmas.  He will probably be on mandatory overtime from now until Christmas, so I am going to have to find a lot of activities to do with the twins to keep us all from going crazy!  Maybe we should start with unpacking ;)  Anyhow, here are some pictures of the house from when it was empty.  I think the inspector or appraiser took these:

the front


formal dining room (to the left when you walk in the door)


view of the kitchen from the living room:


did you check out all those cabinets?   

looking at the front door and stairs from the living room:


the upstairs, looking out from the loft area:


master bathroom :)


I would show you pictures of the bedrooms and other bathrooms but they are pretty boring.  Pretty much tile/carpet and white walls.  And the backyard is not landscaped yet, so it's just dirt and rocks, but when (I say when not if and cross my fingers) we get that fixed I am sure I will be posting pictures!  I already have tons of ideas for what I want in our backyard, we will see what actually happens! 

So, I think that's all I got for now!  Lots of boxes to unpack :)  Then I should probably go shopping for more Christmas decorations because I don't have that many, and the twins love them.  They point at them and say something along the lines of "mama, mama, Christmas?"  It's pretty cute.  And just today they both asked (independently) about a Christmas tree!  I can't tell you how relieved I am that my mom's love for Christmas decorating did not get skipped in me or my kids!  Bring on the Christmas baby!

btw, did I show you a picture of West Point's latest cadet?  She is pretty cute: