Balloon Glow and Tree Lighting

I just love our town.  They have so many family friendly FREE events.  This was the first year we went to the Balloon Glow and Tree Lighting.  Of course, I go to take my first picture and the camera’s batteries die.  So these pics are compliments of my cell phone (not too bad).  Unfortunately, the picture of the tree didn’t turn out.  But, boy, were the balloons awesome.  We got to get up close and personal with them. 

We were so close we could feel the heat from the fire and smell the propane burning.  It was awesome for ML and I and for the girls.  We had never been that close to hot air balloons.  And getting to watch them from beginning to end was soooo cool.  Now if only we could for an actual ride.

Christmas Kid Funny

Driving to school the other morning:

  Little Miss A:  "Mom, can you smell my breath this morning?"

          Me:  pausing for a long moment and thinking "no, I don't realy want to"


          Little Miss A:  "Mom, can you smell my breath this morning?"


          Me:  and then it hits me..."Yes, I think we can SEE our breath this morning"

Gingerbread House Fun

We always end up doing Gingerbread Houses at some point doing the Christmas Season.  We have become “honorary neighbors” to some friends of ours even though we live several miles away.  Our friends were hosting breakfast for their neighbors and we were invited.  It was such a cool thing, I hope to do it for our neighbors one year.  But anyway, my friend Veronica bought the simplest stuff for the kids to make gingerbread houses with.  My girls had so much fun and it was so easy.  I will definitely do it this way next year (just use graham crackers, frosting, and candy).

 

Fibro Friday: Back Injections

A couple months ago I started physical therapy as part of my pain management.  Another part of the treatment has been having injections in my back of steroids.  I have had 2 injections now and thankfully they are working.  The first one started working pretty fast which I was happy about since I have heard you never know what might happen.  And the second one worked and the doctor said we could stop at 2 which is awesome.

It is pretty interesting when I am done with them and being released.  My legs, especially my right, become very numb and I can’t walk.  It was quite humorous I can imagine watching my mom and I the first time trying to get into my house.  The second time, ML went so that he could be with me and I think he was shocked at how much it affected my legs.  Good thing he is nice and strong and could get me into the house with no problem. 

I am glad to be done with them for now and so thankful that they have worked.  Woo hoo for pain going away!!!!

Thanksgiving Reflections

What a fun month November was.  Looking back, I can’t remember everything that we did, but I do remember a lot of baking.  I can’t tell you how many loaves of my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread (to die for!) I made.   I also found a recipe for Pumpkin Cream Cheese Truffles and tried those…to die for!!!  Those were a bit hit and I made 4-6 batches of those (I can’t remember now).

It has become our tradition to host Thanksgiving and I love it!  ML always helps clean the house which helps and my mom even helped this year.  It makes it so nice that everyone chips in and helps cook so ML and I aren’t stuck cooking everything.  It turned out to be a nice, relaxing even with family.  And of course, we ended the night with our family tradition of watching “Christmas Vacation” with Chevy Chase.  Can’t get any better than that.

One thing I didn’t do this year was the 30 days of Thanksgiving.  But everyday I am so reminded of things to be thankful for.  The Lord has blessed me and my family so much that I am reminded to be thankful for more than just 30 days in November.

Happy December!

Awww, I love the holidays.  There were so many times I thought to blog during November and I just never got to it.  We had a great Thanksgiving and loved the fall season.  And now I am ready for Christmas!  The house is 95% decorated and we are getting scheduled with tons of festive, Christmasy stuff. 

I have some fun events planned to get out and share with others and love on others during this Christmas season so stay tuned…