Thanksgiving weekend and the weekend that followed

Believe it or not I started this blog mid week.  Well, got the pictures posted anyway and was hoping to have a minute to write everything in.  I guess my week went faster than expected.  This week started with Thanksgiving Thursday!  Emma stayed with us Thursday and Friday while her mom was at work and her dad continues to work on her grandma's house in Rhode Island.  It was a beautiful day, so we took the girls to Pullen Park.  The city of Raleigh just spent a fortune in refurbishing it.  The train, nor the carousel was open but the girls really didn't mind.

The girls running for the playground

The rest of that weekend was very quiet and not much went on.  Needless to say, we made up for it over the past two weekends.  Last weekend was the start of the Christmas season in Garner.  Friday night we took Madison downtown to see the lighting of the tree and to visit with Santa and Ms. Claus.

Smiling pretty...when did she get so grown up?

The town of Garner noted that Main Street was going to have "Snow on Main Street."  And that they did!  We were thinking the streets were going to be lined with snow. Boy were we wrong!!!  Didn't think it was going to be a PILE of snow!!!

Snow on Main Street

It didn't take her too long to warm up to Ms. Claus...not too crazy about this Santa Claus.

Saturday, it was back to Garner for the town parade.  You would have thought it was Halloween with all the candy that was being thrown from the floats!  Here's Madison waiting for the parade to start.  As you can tell, she's getting just a bit anxious.

I don't have all day!

That afternoon, we met up with Allie at her house to work on our Home Depot Kids Workshop project.  Jeff brought two home earlier in the week knowing the girls were going to miss out since we were going to the parade.  This week was snowman napkin holders.  Looking good girls!

Emma came for over Monday night to have dinner.  For dessert we had a HUGE gingerbread man.  I had to help the girls decorate it, but I think they had more fun afterwards eating his buttons and taking his legs and arms off!

This weekend we didn't take too many pictures but we had a very busy social weekend with visiting one of Jeff's coworkers Friday night and then to a party down the street last night.  To work it all out, we took a VERY long hike today.  The outcome of the walk can be seen in the next blog!

Hope everyone's holiday season is coming together.  Hard to believe only a couple more weeks before Santa comes to town!