School's out (well, for a few days anyway)!

Well, today was our first day of our Thanksgiving break; so, the boys woke up and immediately wanted to decorate for Christmas. It's been tradition to put up the tree and decorate the house the day after Thanksgiving as a family. Yet, I thought it would be OK if we just put up our decorations inside today (I don't think Jeff's feelings were hurt too much by us doing this without him- haha). We will probably put the tree up tomorrow when Jeff is home. Well, I'm sure we will because Preston is just so excited to put the tree up this year he can hardly wait. This afternoon I took the boys to Pottery Ewe to paint a few ornaments for the tree. After two ornaments each and whale they were finally ready to go. We love going back a week later to pick it up and see how their finished artwork turned out. After dinner tonight we decided to make homemade chocolate chip cookies (Heather had mentioned making them with Hailey and I thought it's been a really long time since we made homemade cookies). Preston enjoyed mixing in all the ingredients and I heard Austin tell Jeff later, " these are really good, their homemade" you know he's really not used to that homemade stuff anymore! I think we baked more when I stayed at home and I just don't think about it as much anymore! Well, when we do it's normally a mix that you just add a few ingredients. Anyhow, we had a great day (only a few brotherly spats between the boys) and we are looking forward to all the good food tomorrow brings.