The Holiday Season

The holiday season has officially begun in the Miller household. Not only did we celebrate Halloween this past weekend, we also hosted our Thanksgiving dinner. The past week and weekend flew by with Joe being out of town and celebrating both holidays in a two day span. But, everything went off without a hitch and I can look forward to actual Thanksgiving. Which, thank goodness, I don't have to cook.

Friday night was fun seeing Pierce and Peyton dressed up in their Halloween costumes. They were the cutest little BamBam and Pebbles I've ever seen. Joe and I visited a couple house with them before heading back to our own house to hand out candy. We don't normally get many kids in our neighborhood, as its comprised mostly of older, retired people. This year, however, we got a ton! One of my neighbors on the next street over hosted a huge haunted house in their home this year and advertised for it all over town. I think that encouraged more kids to trick-or-treat in my neighborhood. I actually ran out of candy this year and had to close up shop early. That's ok though because my dogs were going nuts with all the little kids knocking on the door all night.

We were up early on Saturday to get to the grocery store to pick up all the things we needed for our Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday. I never realized how much prep goes into a Thanksgiving dinner. I usually just show up to eat, I've never had to prepare the whole dinner before. By the time dinner rolled around on Sunday I was exhausted. Everything turned out great though. We had the full spread, turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing... You name it, I made it. It was fun having both mine and Joe's family together for a dinner. All the kids played and, for the most part, had a great time. After dinner was over and cleaned up and everyone left, our house was nice and quiet and calm. Joe and I resigned to the couch to watch some football and relax.

I don't have too much going on this week. It'll be nice to have a little R&R for a couple of weeks before our other big events start popping up. We've got Pierce's second birthday party coming up as well as the real Thanksgiving and, dare I say, we have to start thinking about Christmas shopping.... eek! Another year has all but flown by and I can't believe it.