Time for some updates!

Happy December people.  Where did the past month go?!  I haven't posted in a while and I have a few pictures and updates to share.

Ella and I have been spending some time with the Androidify app in Google Play to make all sorts of fun characters.  And now we can make them dance!  Even more fun!! 

I celebrated my birthday on 11/13.  Lots of grey hairs have made their presence known, so I guess that makes me wiser, right?  I thought I was going to be all cool about getting another year older, but grey hairs are not cool.  Not cool.  We headed out to Chick-Fil-A for a quick dinner (we are fancy like that) and then headed to Ella's dance practice.  It was totally exciting.  :)

The weekend was spent in Shakopee with my mom and aunt and some friends for the annual shopping extravaganza.  We went to the craft sale at Canterbury Downs and then some shopping in the snow on Saturday.  It was a nice little weekend!  Ella and Jay even ventured out in the snow on Saturday to meet us for lunch!  

And then it was Thanksgiving week (don't ask what we did the week in between there - I have no idea!)

So, Thanksgiving.  Ella got strep throat.  She was sick at home all day Wednesday (the day before Thanksgiving).  Thankfully, it was a no school day, so Jay was home anyway, but still....miserable.  We didn't know it at the time that she had strep.  We were wondering if it was a stomach virus or something.  Anyway, Ella and I stayed home on Thursday and spent some time circling deals in the Black Friday ads and enjoying our "turkey"

 ha ha!  

Since we weren't able to make it to Thanksgiving lunch, we had our own little turkey shaped sandwiches

Friday, we confirmed that Ella had strep throat.  What a bummer!  I went to find the Taylor Swift 1989 CD at Best Buy - sold out.  Another bummer!  But, we did decorate the house for Christmas.  Ella had a lot of fun helping to put up the ornaments.  Jay says it looks like Christmas threw up in our house because apparently "I don't need to put out everything"  Well.  It's a new space with a LOT more space!  You better believe I'm going to try to decorate all the spaces.  I will say though, that our yellow walls (that we STILL haven't painted) look even worse with Christmas decor all around.

Oh, and Ella and I watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas since we were just laying around on Thanksgiving anyway!  I'm not sure why I took a picture while we were watching it, but it was there so I'm putting it here.  You're welcome.

 

Jay painted the master bathroom over the long weekend, so that's exciting.  He has not yet shared the before and after pictures with me, so stay tuned for those.

In other randomness, Jay's parents had sleds from when Jay was younger and Jay brought them home after Thanksgiving for Ella to use.  She had to try each of them out beforehand.  HA!

 A crazy one with a steering wheel!

 An orange hooptie that they took for a spin over the weekend (see pictures later)

 And lastly, my favorite, the classic red sled.  Nice and safe.  

No shenanigans to be had in this one!

Here they are with the orange sled!  She loves it!