Friday Frenzy!

What a busy day! But first, let me tell you we had a lovely Thanksgiving. We went to Mom and Dad's for dinner. Gariann and Kirk, Tyler and Kathy and their boys were there. Kyle came after he got off work, and Travis stopped by for a short time. Zach and Wyatt brought a whole big bag of matchbox cars, and I caught Kyle laying on the floor playing with them, but he rolled away just as I snapped the picture.











We had a delicious meal and then played Tripoley until time to take the little boys home for bedtime. Zach played, and enjoyed betting and even winning some poker hands. In the picture, Zach and Wyatt are counting out the pennies for the game. We had ten players, and each started with 100 pennies. I finished the game with only ten cents!
Just before we were ready to leave, we saw two raccoons on the deck eating the birdfood. Tyler had the gun, and when Dad opened the door, Tyler blasted them.
Zach came home with us, and he and I got up early this morning to go to Farm and Home for some big bargains. We waited in line for forty minutes! We then went to Gate City Seed "Candy Land" and bought several kinds of candy. When we got home, Wyatt came over to help put up and decorate our Christmas tree. I warned them that it would be a big job, but they wanted to do it, so we worked all afternoon. First we cleaned and moved furniture. Then they helped carry everything down from the attic, and we "built" the tree. That's what Wyatt calls putting the artificial tree together. We finally got the tree up, decorated, and all the furniture re-arranged just as it was getting dark outside. Since the boys had seen our neighbor, Lanny, burning leaves earlier in the day, they wanted to go out and burn leaves. What they really wanted to do was play with fire, but we called it burning leaves. We had quite a blaze going for a little while. It was a nice break from being inside doing all that decorating! Believe it or not, it was almost like summer today. Way too hot to be putting up Christmas decorations! Anyway, we came in for supper. Of course, you know we had something with turkey in it! I fixed turkey and rice casserole, and Wyatt ate it, mostly because he had no choice. Then we decorated the wildlife.
Now it's showers and off to bed. Both boys are staying overnight. Tomorrow we're going to play Monopoly. Zach has it set up already so we can start as soon as we wake up.