Crafty Christmas

Jack's Christmas craft

Michaels had some great sales on Thanksgiving as well as a coupon for 30% off the entire order including sale items (which they never do). 

Dada trying a new angle

Jack wasn't at the store with me (it was crazy full of some crafty ladies) so I had to guess at what he would like, he seemed to be happy with everything.

Jack set the berries where he wanted them, said Here!, and I twisted them on to the limb

Carl wanted to help

 

I tried to encourage him to spread them out a bit, but he seems to like them concentrated, same as his ornaments.

 

Getting a different perspective

You sure you want the blue?  Yas, red too Mama.

More Mama

Why can't I make a wreath?

Duuuuh (that's how it sounds when Jack says done, not a draw out duh, more a sing songy, you'd have to hear it)

Place of honor, we moved it to the inside of the door so Jack can see it though. 

Sparkly!

Standing

Working out!  He had great sound effects to go with his lifts

Look at the big boy!

It's time to DECORATE!

I love snowflakes

That's the tree skirt, I used to wear it too!

The beginning

It was so nice with Jack being old enough to help decorate the tree.  I had taken more pictures but my camera decided I didn't need them and deleted them before I could download.  Stoopid camera, I'm replacing you!

Anyways, in those pictures I had some of Jack's progress.  You could tell by the clumping in the lower part of the tree that a toddler had helped decorating.  3 ornaments to a branch.  :-)

I had to rope Dada in to help space them out a little bit

It's a Dada workout!

Done!

This is the other tree, it's red & it makes me happy

A Thanksgiving while watching what I eat = my belly doesn't hurt for once!

This

turned into this

Very immodest turkey

This

turned in to this slightly burnt version.  I plan to make it all from scratch next time, saw a great recipe I want to try.

Isn't this cool looking?  Not photo editing, just steam on the lens!

Yummmms.  I remember this dish on our table growing up.

This

and this

turned into this!  Our first time using our ladle & gravy boat from Ma & Pa.  Looks so much better than in a cereal bowl like in years past.

These

turned into this.  No, I didn't chop up bread in perfect little bits, ha!  Bagged.  :-(  I plan to make this from scratch next year too.

Our meal this year, I actually remembered everything this time!

Don't forget the cranberries Dada!

Jack's plate

Our meal went really well.  I learned a couple of things too.  1. Always make sure you have aluminum foil when cooking a turkey  2. It's very difficult to take a nice picture of a turkey  3. Watching how many calories you eat at Thanksgiving is tough, but at the same time my belly is not sickeningly full like usual  4. Jack loves cranberry sauce  5. There's a heckuva lot more meat on a turkey than it looks like

I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving, traditional or non.  I hope that one day I can cook for many people, I do so love cooking for people.  For today though, I'll take the smiles on the faces of little family.