A Belated Happy Thanksgiving

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I am finally taking a quick moment to blog and say a belated Happy Thanksgiving. We have had a very busy week! Between cleaning and preparing for company and all the dozens of small projects around the house that you always plan to take care of, but never do until company is coming, we were very busy the first part of last week. We spent a couple of days visiting with Brian's brother, sister-in-law, and niece. We had a great Thanksgiving with the Lewis's. My parents arrived Thanksgiving night. Camden was so excited to see them. I think he probably drove my dad nuts - he wouldn't leave his side for 3 days straight.

We did the standard Black Friday shopping and I got quite a few Christmas presents bought. My mom bought Rory this adorable dress from Gymboree along with polka dot tights to go with it. It is adorable! We also bought new luggage so that we would be prepared for our trip to Korea. We spent Saturday shopping for a Christmas tree and finally brought home a beautiful live tree and the house is decorated and ready for presents under the tree. Camden enjoyed helping out with that, of course.

Today we had church and then went out to eat with the Lewis side of the family one more time before they had to head home to Virginia and we're now enjoying a quiet afternoon before the work week begins again tomorrow.

I've posted pics of the cute dress for Rory as well as a picture of Camden and his cousin Cheyenne.
Camden and Cheyenne. Cheyenne is about 6 months younger than Camden but the same size. I think there was a bit of a turf war going on between the two of them. Camden is not used to having to share attention or toys at Gram and Gramp's house, but they settled in. She is a beautiful little girl!
Pictures of William and Xavier from Halloween.
picture from last year's Christmas
Camden and Grandpa in matching hats

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