day after thanksgiving (aka black friday)

after our early morning shopping i made it home to find kevin had put the tree out! he couldn't take it any longer. this guy loves christmas more than anyone i know. it makes it fun.

i was home long enough to rearrange furniture for the tree (this will be the first year we have put it in our living room) and get everyone dressed before we were out shopping again with my sister nat, mom, grandma freidenberger, janice (my mom's sister visiting from cali), and my cousin kayla (janice's daughter).

we had fun and accomplished our main task of finding something to bring to the crafting table.

we had some great crafts and had a good time.


our holy family

and a trio of trees

thanks for the fun day everyone! it's always fun to see janice and kayla!

with a tree up in my house i couldn't think of anything else to do but start pulling out christmas. i had fun all day saturday decorating.

and kevin surprised us with a train to go under our tree. we wore the batteries out before the weekend was over. lots of fun! and it brought back many memories of the train under the tree when i was growing up.

magic!