Every Boy's Dream

Thanksgiving morning was a cold one. In fact, we got our first frost of the year that morning. While all of the girls stayed warm within the walls of our house and mostly in the kitchen, the boys set up their day camp out by the lake--bonfire included.

[Centerpiece inspired by an article in the November Southern Living Magazine]

The boys built a bonfire.

They fished on land.
They fished on a boat.
And Henry was the only one to catch a fish.

These boys will be boys.

Meanwhile, Hannah was a great cousin by entertaining Micah indoors.

When I looked over all of my pictures from the Thanksgiving holidays, I realized I didn't take any pictures of the girls hard at work in the kitchen or planning our shopping route for that evening and the following morning.

And yes, Dawne, Karen and I shopped 'til we dropped. We started our evening at 9:30pm at Toys R Us, and decided not to stand in the line that wrapped COMPLETELY around the entire shopping center. After leaving Toys R Us, we stopped by Wal-Mart to wrestle with the crowds and find some hot deals. We took a break from shopping from 1am-3am to take a nap and recharge our batteries for a long morning of shopping ahead of us. Around noon we headed home with tired feet and a packed SUV.


I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! We sure did!