Thanksgiving Week

The kids had school Monday, then were off the rest of the week. There was a Kindergarten feast with Penelope's class. Matt decided to go during his lunch hour and I joined him at the last minute. I'm so glad we did - Penelope was super excited when she saw us! I hadn't told her either of us were coming, just in case it didn't work out.

Something about a hand-colored turkey hat means it's officially Thanksgiving!

After the feast, I got to take Penelope home with me - er, back to work. She played with office supplies, coloring on sticky notes with dry erase markers and ball point pens. She added to my collection of love notes.

On Thanksgiving Day, we went to a buffet at a local casino with the Hillers. We have plans for a full Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday with the rest of the family too. I do love not cooking or cleaning  - we just had time to watch a movie and then play games the rest of the night. We taught Claire and Miles to play Dutch Blitz. Woo hoo! They did pretty good too!

Then on Black Friday, instead of shopping, Matt studied, we went to the park and rode scooters and then took family photos. We took them ourselves this year... yikes. I hope they turn out. Matt helped me with the entire family pics, bringing the tripod and some chairs for us to use as props. He indulges my photography demands. And we had to document the beard, of course.