November Happenings....

The month of November has flown by!  I can't believe tomorrow is December 1 already!  I thought I better get this blog back on track!  Here we go with some November reminiscing....

 Ella had a check-up for her braces and they added a chain along the front four teeth, which apparently means that they are happy with their location, so the chain helps to keep them in place while the rest of the teeth are still moving. We have another check-up soon with an x-ray to see if all the teeth are in the right place!

 I brought out the Christmas PJs a bit early because it has been so cold!  

I love the Old Navy waffle PJs and last year's printed legging is still my favorite!  

Speaking of favorites, we did something new this year with some friends and went to Turkey Bingo at the Farmington Fire Station!  It was madness!!  A lot of people there to support the cause, play bingo and win some prizes!  I have never played Turkey Bingo before, so I was a rookie.

  But I won a turkey!!  BINGO!!!  The winning call was B-4.  It was amazing! :)

Turkey Bingo was also a pre-birthday bash hanging out with friends, which leads to the big birthday. To be honest, I didn't really celebrate too much.  I wasn't feeling well and my aunt passed away early in the morning, so I wasn't in a very celebratory mood.  But, because it was a big event, I did have the day off (duh!) and I got the largest most delicious peppermint mocha frappuccino from Starbucks (below). I took a picture because it was made so cute and the barista wrote Happy Birthday on my cup!

 And this is 40.

I will say that my selfie game has come along way, am I right?!  :)

I also baked myself a birthday cake.  A mint chocolate birthday cake.  It turned out great and tasted amazing, but because I wasn't feeling well, I had a slice on my birthday and that was it.  

Boo!  But isn't it cute!

Just before Thanksgiving, Ella had a PJ day along with crazy hair day at school! 

Here's what she wanted to do this year...

 

And then it was Thanksgiving!  It came so fast!  We spent it in Worthington this year.  But, it was a late start. Have I mentioned I wasn't feeling well?  Yep, still wasn't feeling great and I wasn't sure I was up for the trip, but as the day progressed, I felt a little more energetic, so we loaded up the truck and headed out. I felt better the next day, so thank goodness we didn't stay home!  We would have missed out on all the yummy food, like Grandma's potatoes and Kaila's salad!  :)

 Sitting in "chairs" with Grey Spots to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade!

 Showing off our Thanksgiving Day hats we colored!

I got this cute Turkey before Thanksgiving.  We each wrote something we are thankful for on a feather along with the date.  It was fun to read each other's messages and I think it will be neat to pull out every year and add another layer of thankful feathers!  

Gobble Gobble!

The weekend of Thanksgiving we decorated the house for Christmas! 

I love this time of year, but it is a LOT of work to get the house decorated! It took me the entire Saturday and I didn't even finish. Ugh. But, I had the Christmas music playing and just tried not to stress out about it and enjoy hanging out with Ella (the best helper!) to make the house cute!

 This year's Grandma Alice tree in the front window 

with family ornaments that used to be my Grandma's.

And this is our big tree in the family room this year! 

Isn't sitting in the dark with only the tree lights on the best?!  

I love it!

And that about sums up the major happenings of our November 2018. 

We are looking forward to lots of fun things in the upcoming weeks!

Ella will be starting musical practice, basketball practice, she will have a dance winter show and church Christmas program too! Whew!  On top of those, we need to sneak in Christmas movie nights, our Cozy Cocoa Christmas Cruise to check out the lights and visit SANTA!