Decorating our tree

Tonight we decided to go ahead and decorate our Christmas tree. The girls are really into decorating this year and had a great time. We really enjoyed our time together as a family decorating, dancing to Christmas songs, and then making funny faces for the camera. Piper even joined in the fun and sat back with a watchful eye. The Christmas tree is beautiful and I can't wait for new decorations to be added this year.

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know that I certainly have a lot to be thankful for. Today we are heading to my parents house to eat some delicious turkey good. Saturday we will have Thanksgiving with most of the rest of my Dad's family. Hubby has to work so he won't be able to join us. He will enjoy time with his family on Sunday though when we head to the big city to enjoy time with them. I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

We've been INVADED

Well, not really...but it could seem that way I suppose. On Tuesday sister-in-law came up with our four nieces. We needed to get together to shop for our other sister-in-law's baby shower that is coming up next week. The girls had a great time playing together and as you can see we got some great pictures. We also even managed to fit in a "field trip" to the fire station and got our own personal tour! (It pays to know a guy) Hopefully this weekend we will get to add in the only two boys that we have (poor guys) and make it a true Carpenter cousins picture. This time next year we will have another little girl in the mix. Our cousin pictures get prettier and prettier each year!

A Thanksgiving Program

Number 1 had a pre-k Thanksgiving program at school this past week. I took video as well and hope to be able to post that soon. For now, enjoy these pictures of her. She had several people come support her and cheer her own including 2 out of 3 sets of grandparents and even a few cousins. Each kid got to make a turkey after the students were done singing. After the program we went out to dinner and had a great time.

Our "Friendly" Thanksgiving

For the past couple of years we have gotten together with some close friends to celebrate Thanksgiving. We all bring something and we get to pretend like we are grown ups cooking for Thanksgiving since most of us don't get to bring a "main course" to our family Thanksgivings. We did it at Emily and Colin's house this year and it was great. As you can see we had a good time.