Bummer!!

Hmmm... I have so many fun (well, probably boring to all you guys out there in bloggerland, but fun to me!) things to post about thanksgiving and stuff, but I can't find my camera! I've taken lots of pictures and now my camera has *poof* into thin air. This just sucks. I hope I can find it. As I'll talk about later, we've been doing some home improvements and that's the last pictures I took and the house was literally in pieces when I took those pictures and I'm sure I just set the camera down and now it has been misplaced. It worries me because now the house is all put back together and my worst fears are it might have been thrown away or something stupid like that because we did have so much mess laying around it might have gotten mixed up with trash - that would so suck!

Anyway, I'll start with thanksgiving. It was great! This is the 4th year that we have had thanksgiving at my house (maybe 5th, but I think just the 4th....) It is always kind of a combined thanksgiving because my parents and most of my siblings come, along with Kris' mom, grandma, and most of his siblings. All in all we had 12 adults and 8 kids! So fun! It would have been more, but my sister's poor twins were very sick and stayed home with their dad. I am always lazy about thanksgiving. I do not understand how some people put together an entire thanksgiving dinner all by themselves!!! I always assign who is bringing what. I got a half of a ham and a boneless/skinless turkey breast from the Honeybaked Ham store, made the bread (store bought rolls....), mashed potatoes (Ore Ida Steam n' Mash - hehe) and the stuffing (Stovetop!) My dad brought a whole turkey, my sister Amanda brought the sweet potato casseroles (YUM!) My brother brought the green bean casserole, my mom-in-law brought the salad and everyone pitched in on desserts. My sister Julie brought an amazing hot apple cider. YUM YUM So as you see - Thanksgiving dinner is easy for me - hardest part is cleaning and getting the house ready!!

The best part of getting the house ready for Thanksgiving is setting the table I think! This is because 3 years ago my husband and I bought a magnificent Amish built solid Oak table that extends from 5 feet all the way to 12 feet! And last year Meemaw (my husband's grandmother) got us a tablecloth to fit the table, plus a really nice table service and silverware for christmas. Again, I took pictures of this, but iwll have to wait for the camera to re-appear to post it! Anyway, it makes it all look very fancy and formal. So fun!

Another 'fun' thing that happened this weekend is my husband decided to continue home improvements. I mentioned in the post about Savanna's room that we wanted to update our living room. I told my husband that SOMEDAY I would like to get the Pergo 'hardwood' laminate flooring all over our downstairs since our carpet is crappy and I would like to paint the living room and kitchen. Well, my gung-ho husband went out and got all the pergo flooring and ripped right into it! I was barely cleaning up thanksgiving dinner and he was tearing up the carpet! Don't get me wrong, I really wanted this improvement, but it was just so soon. I was so nervous. He swore to me it would be done in 1 weekend, but it ends up he was in a little over his head. Amazingly, all but like a 5 foot square area of our downstairs is done with the floor down! All he needs to do now is finish that small area, put all the trim back up, and finish putting the quarter-round around the trim. The floor really does look amazing. We also began painting, but that will probably take us a while to finish. Obviously we can't paint when the kids are up and painting around all the cabinets in the kitchen will be a chore and a half! But I'm excited to see how it will look when it's done. I will definately post pictures of all this craziness when we find that silly camera!!

On a different note, Savanna has been really fussy the past couple days. :-( Poor baby. I can't figure out why either. I think it has something to do with eating - I hope it's just a growth spurt. She is nursing every 2 hours again - like she's a newborn again! And she's all fussy and out of sorts in between nursings. I worry I'm suddenly not producing enough milk because even pumping has become more difficult recently, but I'm trying to convince myself it's just a growth spurt and it will pass. She's always been such a good little eater and she's always been content with every 3-4 hours eating. So this fussy every 2 hour stuff is a little annoying an concering. She is such a sweet baby! And she's monster baby! I can't believe how big she is getting. Her 4 month check up is Monday, so we will see then how big she is. I'm sure she will also get shots then. :-( Poor thing.

Joey met Santa! (again... gotta find that darn camera). Christmas is so fun! I love watching Joey get excited about Christmas. He is now old enough to understand the whole santa and gift thing. What stinks is I can no longer have him with me while christmas shopping! I'm fairly sure we know what 'Santa' will get him... he's an easy one to shop for!

Well, I think that's it for now. Hopefully I will find my camera soon and will be able to post pictures. Lets all pray it's not in the bottom of a land fill some where!!!!!! :-|