Nov. 10

November flew by! Looking back, though, I'm not sure what kept us so busy. Alice enjoyed some time outside while we racked leaves several times. I thought she would like the crunchy sound they made but she wasn't sure what to think about them at first. Our final time of racking we loaded the pick-up full and let Alice play in the big pile.


Alice has also started enjoying climbing over and sitting on daddy and going for piggy-back rides. I had several Discovery Toy Parties in Nov. so Alice enjoyed some fun daddy-daughter 'date-nights'.

Over Thanksgiving we first traveled to Jameson's parents Tuesday night through Thursday evening. We got together Wednesday night with the whole family at Jordan and Joy. Here is Alice and daddy with her older cousins.

Thursday after supper we traveled to my parents and spent Friday and Saturday with them. We were able to see most of my relatives for a soup supper Friday night. Friday and Saturday we helped my parents move 'living necessities' (bedroom furniture, clothes, kitchen things, and basement furniture) into their new house as they were ready to start living there. They are keeping some furniture at the old house as they are still trying to sell it. Alice spent a good portion of the time at grandma and grandpa T's playing with this toy.

Before leaving for Thanksgiving festivities we put up our first Christmas tree! (Last year's 2 foot tree really doesn't count.) I also put away fall decorations and got out the rest of our Christmas decorations. It was fun to come up to a house ready for the Christmas season! Here's Alice and daddy spreading out the branches. (We bought an artificial tree so this first year some work was required to get it looking nice.)

And the all-most finished product! (Missing a tree-topper)