Boy oh boy am I tired!  Let me do a quick recap of the weekend:

-Mark and I stayed up until 12:30 on Friday night getting all of the Christmas decorations out of the attic and we also decorated the tree

-Decorated the inside of the house and hung lights on the outside and Mark even decorated Charlie’s big swing set (such a good Daddy)

-Took Charlie to the Lighting of the Ozarks ceremony and the Christmas parade.  He had the best time and just sat in his stroller and waved to all of the floats.  We could not believe how many people were on the square.  What a fun family activity!

-We also helped take care of Pops and Mimi’s dogs because they were out of town and Charlie’s Granny also came to visit for the weekend

It is amazing how different the holidays are going to be with Charlie this year.  He woke up on Saturday and was running through the house yelling “Christmas lights!”  He will walk up to the tree and shake his head and say “breakable” to the ornaments.  Auntie came over tonight to see the decorations and Charlie led her into his room to show her his tree and you could tell that he was so proud of it. 

Here are also some pics of the fruits of our labor this weekend.  I think that everything turned out fabulous and more importantly, Charlie loves all of the decorations!

Hope that everyone has a lovely Thanksgiving this week.  We are having a big dinner with my family on Wednesday night and then we are driving to Malvern to have Thanksgiving with Mark’s family.  I am sure that we will all gain 10 lbs....but it will be worth it!

-Jess

P.S.  We gave Charlie one of his Christmas presents early because it wouldn’t be very fun to open a bookshelf.  We are hoping that he will learn that the books need to stay on the shelves!  Too funny!