Food Prep

I didn't have to cook a big meal, but I did lots of baking for this holiday.  Camden had a luncheon on Wednesday at her school (2 loaves of homemade bread & cake balls), Thursday in Illinois (german chocolate pecan bars), and Saturday in Lafayette (2 loaves of homemade bread - plus 2 more for home & GaGa's, ham salad, pumpkin roll, and Pecan Cheesecake Pie).  Whew!

 

Everything turned out delicious and I actually loved every minute of prep, especially when I had a wonderful helper!  Grinding the ingredients for ham salad...

 

Rolling out the bread dough...

Next time I should probably pull back that hair (and put some clothes on her!).  In my defense, it was early in the morning and she had just got out of the tub.  And she was so eager to help.

Black Friday Deal

We got home on Thursday evening and had already decided to head to Walmart to see if we could score a bargain.  When we pulled into the lot, we had never ever seen the parking lot this full.  Seriously, I think 1/2 of Crawfordsville was there.  We got into the madness and lasted about 30 minutes.  Definitely not our cup of tea to shop in those crowds.  The one bargain we left with...an ants in the can game for Camden.  

 

 

Kevin did go to Staples the next morning at 5am to get us a new laptop.  But it was on his way to hunt in the woods, so not any earlier than normal for him (and Camden and I got to sleep in!).



Illinois Thanksgiving

As always, we made our annual trek to southern Illinois to visit Kevin's grandma and other family for Turkey Day.  Camden and Hali hung out most of the time - playing in the gym or outside on the playground.

 

They even drank in unison.

Also made sure to get the annual generation pictures.

 

We've come a long way since this first one...

 



Happy Thanksgiving

I'm ReeRee

Camden got to stay the night with Aunt Carole on Friday while Kevin and I had our annual "first date" dinner at Scotty's Brewhouse.  November 16 marked the 7th year since that first encounter.

 

The next morning, Aunt Carole braided her hair before they all headed to Indy where I would pick her up.  She slept in the braids and on Sunday when I took them out she had the cutest kinks.  When I got her dressed for church, I told her she had curly hair like Ree Ree.  She excitedly ran out to the kitchen to Kevin and shouted, "Look Daddy, I'm Ree Ree."

 

Grandpa Don

Saturday, November 17 marked the 15th anniversary of my dad's passing.  Kevin, Camden and I stopped by his grave to leave some flowers.  We need to tell Camden more stories about her Grandpa Don.  I'm going to dig out some pictures over this long weekend and make some connections for her.



 

School Crafts

At the end of each month, the kids get to bring home the various crafts they have made.  As I have mentioned, last month they did Noah's Ark and storms.  

 

They also carved Ms. Lana's pumpkin and got to explore the inside of it.  They used the seeds to make this masterpiece.