This year really is going by way too quickly.....
November started out as a time for ridding bikes, playing in leaves and enjoying the Fall!
We spent most of our time however laying on the beach in Fiji with Dave's family, not a bad way to pass the rainy day blues of Seattle! I will post about Fiji in its own post, too many beautiful pics to fit here.
We arrived back in Seattle towards the end of Nov, really did spend the best part of the month in Fiji. From 80+ degree weather back to Seattle's 11degree weather...yikes! what a shock!! Even more shocking was Dave wearing his Hawaii shirt and shorts through the airport in Seattle, the looks of craziness on peoples faces were priceless!
A few days later...SNOW!
Time to break out the scarves and gloves. I guess the sarongs and flip flops were going away again until next year...so sad! We had a blizzard and 4in of snow fall in a day, the temps were 10 below freezing so it stuck around for a while. 2 snow days before the Thanksgiving day break, 6 days off of school and loads of snow play! Great way to spend time couped up with the kids.
The whole neighborhood turned out to go sledding, it was great, but holly cow freezing...brrrr!
The snow had mostly melted just in time for Thanksgiving day. We spent the holiday with close friends, our hosts Maggie & Aaron plus Danielle & Scott and MJ & David and all the kiddos, what a great time!! We laughed, drank and ate loads of turkey. The kids played real well and everyone had a wonderful time...great times =) Maggie, did a fantastic job with the bird, really all the food was amazing. The best Turkey spread ever! I made a orange/ginger-cranberry-walnut stuffing, green beans wrapped in pancetta. Dave made a yummy potato bake with swiss and bacon, and a mountain of mashed potato, enough left overs for days... We had our good friends Karen and KC over a few nights later, so Dave made a yummy lamb shepherds pie, a good use of mash!
As always, I did the traditional crazy Black Friday shopping. Although this year I hit Walmart with a group of friends at midnight. The best bargains to find for me were DVD's for $1.69 got the whole collection of Lord of the rings for just over $5...not bad! The line for the checkouts were crazy, the crowds even crazier, but luck was on our side and we managed to miss the lining all together and go straight to the checkouts. Crazy luck there!!
I think one of my favorite days of the year is the day after Thanksgiving! Enjoying sleeping in (or most years crazy Black Friday shopping, then sleeps!) We decorate the house for Christmas and eat lots of yummy turkey day leftovers a great family day. We even made it out to the 3buck cinema and watched "Despicable me" we really enjoyed it.
The boys got their school pics back this month, check out my handsome boys.....
Now with all the excitement of November past, it is now December and I am bring it in with a cold. But a beautifully decorated house for Christmas. Thanks to my boys who all helped decorate the tree this year...love it! And I love my family!
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