Happy Thanksgiving

What could be better than a long holiday weekend when you don't have much to do but hang out together and be lazy? 

On Wednesday Jared and Ruth helped me with our Thanksgiving food assignments.  Ruth made most of a very complicated apple pie recipe and Jared made the majority of a pumpkin roll.  Both were a big hit at Thanksgiving.

Chuck came home from work early on Wednesday feeling crummy and felt no better on Thursday. It's been one sickness/health thing after another for him the past couple of months.  So he opted to stay home and sleep all day while the rest of us went to grandma's for Thanksgiving dinner, which was very nice (the dinner and visit, not Chuck being sick).

cousin's table

The rest of the holiday we just basically hung out.  I kept checking the black friday deals, but there just wasn't anything I needed to buy so we didn't do shopping or anything.

We did spend the day on Friday setting up the tree and all the Christmas decorations.  That is a big project, but with so many helping hands it wasn't too bad.  So now we have all the halls decked and we are fully immersed in Christmas spirit.