Freitag Files: Thanksgiving

I haven't had the time to write anything in ages, and this will sound alot like an email I sent to my family, but read on if you would like!

We were lucky enough to have Kelly home for almost a week around Thanksgiving. We really enjoyed the time and it all went too fast. We did Christmas shopping, ate turkey and trimmings and even found time to make fudge.

The Sunday following Thanksgiving, I went home with Kelly. I spent the daytime with Melissa and the evenings with Kelly or both girls. Monday Melissa and I went to about 20 different places Christmas shopping. We were worn out by the time she had to leave to go get Jaman from school. That night Kelly and I went to Karen's for her birthday. Mom and Dad were there. We had a nice visit with them. Mom wasn't too sure who I was though. Dad had bought a beautiful cake for Karen and Mom was very excited to have some of it. She really did not want to wait even for dinner to start on it.

Tuesday I drove to Alpine to met Melissa. We stayed closer to her house that day. She had a sewing project that she needed to work on and I finished a skirt that she had started and ran into problems with. That night Kelly and I went to her first Mary Kay party as a consultant. It was way up on the mountain in Salt Lake City. We had a fun night but did not get home till late.

Wed. Mike and Leslie arrived. We met at Melissa's and that night we opened gifts with Kelly, Melissa, Curry and the kids. It was very fun. We had bought Jaman a robotic dinosaur, Asher had been with me when I picked it out and she thought it was hers. But when they got it out of the box and it started walking and roaring, she was very afraid of it and wanted to be held! I had been busy sewing for Asher, I made dress-up costumes for her and bought a toy chest to put them in. I can't wait to see her in them. We also bought a tent set that included and small teepee tent and another igloo type tent with tubes that conect them together. We set up just the tents that night and Asher had to have all of us join her in the tents with all her stuffed animals and her blankets. It was really cute.

Thursday we helped Melissa get a new house ready for their "Once Upon A Christmas" home tour. We had thought it was just going to be decorating and staging the home, but it turned out that they builder was not finished with the home yet. When we got there they were still installing carpet, lighting fixtures, varnishing the fireplace mantle, and it was very dirty! We ended up doing contruction clean up most of the day. That night we toured some of the homes on the tour. We had the kids with us as Melissa and Curry were so involved with the tour.
Friday morning Leslie and I made a trip to Tai Pan and found some fun things, then we met Melissa and Asher and Kelly for lunch at Midvale Mining Company. It was great! Then all to soon we had to start home.