Thanksgiving, Lights, and Sickness

This year for Thanksgiving Chris and I decided that we would stay put at our house. We invited his mom, dad and grandmother up for a visit. They flew in on Wednesday night and left this morning. We had a really great visit with them. Chris and I weren't sure if the girls would remember them because it has been almost a year since they last saw them. Katie went with Chris to the airport to pick them up and as soon as she saw her grandma she took off running to give her a hug. It made her day to get such a warm reception from Katie. The next morning Bree got to see them and of course she didn't remember them but it didn't take long for her to warm up to them. She was great grandma's sidekick all weekend. She really took to her right away and just loved her. We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner and enjoyed our lazy day together.

Friday we got out for a few hours to try and take advantage of the black Friday deals. I was not feeling to well so we headed back to the house. By Friday afternoon I was running a 102 fever and was feeling pretty bad. No other symptoms just a fever and very achy, but by Saturday morning my fever had broken and I was feeling much better. I even ventured back out with Katie on Saturday afternoon for a little mother,daughter time together. We went and took care of some of the Christmas shopping. That evening after dinner Chris, Katie, Bree, Mom, Grandma and myself all loaded up to go see the lights at Rhema. Rhema is a HUGE church and bible college here in BA. They decorate their entire campus in lights and have Santa there also. They take donations to help out local charities. Katie and Bree were amazed by all the lights. Some of the lights were coming on and off to Christmas music. It was pretty neat. Katie actually sat on Santa's lap for the very first time every. We were so surprised. Each year she is terrified of him and will only way but would not go close to him. We were very proud of her. Now we just have to work on Bree. She would only wave but wasn't getting close to him. Maybe next year.

The girls were very sad to see their grandparents leave this morning. Even though we don't get to seem them very often it was so nice to have them here and spend some time with them.