Thanksgiving & Christmas Tree Hunting

Chloe's first Thanksgiving had its ups and downs.  We hung out at Kendra's house the entire day on Thursday while she and Paul made a big Thanksgiving feast.  Chloe caught a cold, but she was still in a pretty good mood.  When we were finally able to eat dinner (there was a bit of a fiasco in that Chad was late to fry the turkey, there was not enough oil to deep fry the turkey, oh wait now there is way too much oil to fry the turkey and it is boiling over, there wasn't enough propane to fry the turkey, etc.) we all really enjoyed ourselves. 

Chloe used snot on her turkey rather than gravy. (The turkey leg was for photo purposes only.  I did not feed my 10 month old daughter a whole turkey leg!)

She was pretty messy from the meal so we gave her a bath after dinner.  Taylor and Oli joined her while she splashed around, and it was easily Chloe's favorite bath ever.  She had so much fun playing in the tub and I laughed the entire time.

Chloe had a hard time sleeping that night.  She was super gassy and I think she got the turkey toots.  She was also very sick and was coughing and sneezing the whole night.  I ended up sleeping with her, but I probably only slept an hour or two.  There was a big party going on down stairs!  My dad picked us up at 5:00 a.m. and drove us out to meet my mom and my Aunt Paula in Saginaw.  Thankfully my dad volunteered to watch Chloe so that I could go on my annual Black Friday shopping drip with my mom!  I ended up being awake for something like 36 hours, but you find yourself doing all kinds of superhuman things as a mom.

We went Christmas tree shopping on Saturday.  Unfortunately, Paul had to work and so he missed our first annual Christmas tree hunt.  I found the perfect tree.  It was about 20 feet tall.  We cut the top 11.5 feet off of it and brought it home all the way to Grand Rapids where Paul had to cut another 2.5 feet off the top.  What can I say?  I love a big Christmas tree!  Chloe hated hunting for the tree this year.  Look at her in her snowsuit.  I would have hated it too!

We got the tree up on Sunday when we got home.  It took a few days to get it all decorated, but we love it now that it is up!

It is hard to believe that Christmas is right around the corner.  I love thinking back to what we were doing at this same time last year.  I was getting to be very pregnant looking and I slept through most of the Thanksgiving events like our annual Christmas walk party.  My mom had to put the lights on our Christmas tree.  The snow could hardly put a damper on our spirits because we were getting so excited to meet Chloe.  This month is going to fly by like it usually does and soon here we will be having Chloe's first birthday party.  I can't believe I have an almost one year old!