Happy Thanksgiving!

Wow - it's been a great week. Of course, it helps that we had a four-day weekend with the holiday. We were very grateful for the extra days off as we needed a break and time to relax. Though, "relax" is probably not the right word since we kept busy all weekend!

Kim's brother got home from college on Tuesday night, so we spent quite a bit of time at her parents house. Mike really liked the bedroom we decorated for him, so that was a relief.

Thursday was turkey day, and Kim's mom made quite the feast. Before we were allowed to sit down, we had to get a group photo - I think the last one we have of the five of us is from our wedding!

After we ate, we worked on our annual Thanksgiving puzzle. We finished in record time (well, at least for us) - completing the 1,000 piece puzzle by the time we went home that night!



On Friday, we started our office renovation project. We've never been happy with that room, as it was one that just got 'thrown together' when we moved in. We had intentions of fixing it...but just never got around to it. Well, by noon on Friday, the room had been cleared out, taped and had a first coat of paint on it. We put on a second coat after lunch and moved the furniture back in. We still have some decorating to do (not to mention going through piles of "stuff"), but it's already an improvement.



On Friday night, we met up with a bunch of college friends - the old 438 crew. We had a great time seeing everyone and catching up - though it really felt like we hadn't been apart! Hopefully we'll be able to get together again next time everyone is in town for a holiday.

Today was Operation Christmas. We finished putting up the lights outside, set up the tree and put up all our inside decorations. It's pretty fabulous, if we do say so ourselves:



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