Thanksmas

Years ago I thought it was pretty neat that the Millers celebrated their family Christmas every year on Thanksgiving. They called it Thanksmas. Well, in recent years, we've done that as some as well, only it's been every other year. This is one of those years.

Today there was shopping and cooking and wrapping and a few chores done around the house. While the others were all out, Kaleb and I stayed home and did a little work outside in the cold. The pic below was during a warm up break. Kaleb still has his hat on while he's sipping his hot cider and engaging in his favorite past time... reading. Not sure how he could actually see, but he was managing.



After dinner we wrapped up the presents we had for our gift exchange and decorated the new little tree. It almost looked like it really was Christmas. As you can see below, Claire was a big help picking out ornaments.



However, she was not as big a help when it came to actually placing them on the tree. Kaleb, however, was, and he helped keep Claire out of trouble.


As you can see from the shots below, we had a really fun evening.

Claire admires her mom's new bracelets.

Jeremy does his best to console Claire.

Kaleb checks out his gifts, including he cool walkie-talkies from Jeremy and Amber.

OK, someone said something funny!

Fok and I were taking pics.

I thought this was a really cool quote to end the posting with. Jen placed it and the miniature manger scene under the tree. Hope you can read it.