Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend! MJ got 4 entire days to spend with us. I loved having him home and I think he enjoyed relaxing with the kids and his family. We had dinner at MJ's Aunt and Uncle's home here in San Jose. His parents, Aunt, Uncle, cousins, Grandma, and our family were there. We had a wonderful time as always and the food was wonderful! Sorry, no pictures.

Then, the day after Thanksgiving, Mj went shopping early with his Dad. They were up as 3:30am and were home by 7:30 in time to help me get the kids ready and out the door by 8 to go and get our Tree. We always go up to the Santa Cruz mountains and get our tree and love every minute of it. The kids enjoyed walking around and helping with the trees that we found. And for a change it was warm at the top of the mountain. We then set up Christmas at our house the rest of the day.









Jessi always loves to help MJ put the star on. I think our tree was a little taller this year and Jessi a little heavier.


Jessi was pretty cute putting on ornaments. We told her to put them on the bottom of the tree and she did exactly that. Every bow of every branch had an ornament before the tree fell down and almost every one after.


We put the tree in the stand, had the lights, the star and half the decorations up and then the tree fell down! It took MJ about 20 minutes to get it to stand up again while I held it and to say the least, it was a little frustrating. But it missed Jessi and MJ when it fell and only a few ornaments broke so we aren't too much worse off for it. Luckily Tanner slept through the whole thing. So, the tree isn't exactly straight this year but it won't be falling again. And we have a story to tell for years to come. Mj asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told him a new tree stand.


Saturday I went up to IKEA to get a deal on the kids Christmas gift it was more than 50% off and we were already planning on getting them this gift. So it was worth the 20 minute drive with Tanner to go and get it. While we were there MJ and Jessi were going to go and help his parents put up their lights but his dad called and had fallen off his bike and ended up breaking his collar bone. So Mj and Jessi went and put the lights up with out Daddo's help.

Overall we had a wonderful weekend and are looking forward to Christmas and the time we will be able to spend together again. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving too.