Thanksgiving Week

For Thanksgiving week, I got to fly home for a visit. It was a fun, blessed time with my family that was much needed. We got snowed in, lost power for a couple days, and ate lots of food. Because we lost power, we had to eat the ice cream that was in our freezer. It was a burden, but we ate it all without complaining. ;) Also because we had no power and had nothing else to do, we ended up going to the movies to watch "MegaMind". (good movie, btw).

We had quite a bit of snow. Dad said it was the most snow we've gotten in a long time this early in the year.

Lovely day for a swing, don't you think?

Jackson was very excited about the snow! He thoroughly enjoyed it.

There was sledding.....

Joey and Nick thought that this old trashcan would make an excellent sled. (it failed).

Jackson going down the hill

There was a track specifically for belly sliding.

Jackson on the belly sliding snow track

There was snow man making....

Becca's Snowman

My Snowbunny

Samantha and I's snowman creation

During the construction.....

He had cute little arms....
and cute little feet.

And then there were indoor activities...

Jackson was helping mom cook in the kitchen.

The day after Thanksgiving we went to Apple Hill to find the perfect Christmas Tree. We've never gotten our tree that early in the year, but we wanted to get it while I was still in town.


Jackson got to say "hi" to Santa. I think he was more interested in the candy cane that Santa gave him though.

This is the tree we almost took home.....we called for a cutter and took a picture in front of it.....and then decided on another one.

After picking out our tree, sampling Apple Hill's delicious Apple Cider, and of course, buying some, we turned homeward. Then it was time to decorate the tree!



So, here it is. The perfect Christmas Tree.

It was a wonderful time and I enjoyed every minute of it. I'm back at CBU, Russia now, plugging away at my studies. Okay, so I don't have a lot of studying to do and my schedule is far from hard. However I did spend this entire past weekend in bed, sick with a virus that is infiltrating the campus. Thankfully, I am almost completely well again. Annnnnnd, I get to go home again for three and a half blissful weeks full of Christmas magic, in about two weeks!!!!!!!! I fly home the 16th. I am quite excited and very ready for this semester to end. I can't wait to deck the halls and immerse myself in the Christmas spirit and magic. :) My life.....it's beautiful.