Our Long Weekend

Grandma holding sweet Ava

Hayden was insisting on wearing Daddy's hat

A lot of kids are scared of Santa at this age, but Hayden was acting very serious. :)

Hayden's first ride in a moving toy car. He was so excited and his face lit up with a huge smile when it started.

We had a nice long weekend visiting with family and hanging out at home. On Thanksgiving we went over to Pat's for dinner. Mom brought pies and I brought stuffed mushrooms. There were two turkeys, two kinds of stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, squash, sweet potatoes, candied yams, scalloped corn, rolls, green bean casserole, oyster dressing, and pumpkin soup. On Friday we drove up to Springfield to go see Santa Claus, but we weren't interested in doing any shopping other than for me to give my mom some ideas. I don't really want or need too much this year. For dinner we went to one of Josh's favorite places-- Red Robin. Saturday my parents left in the morning because they wanted to go to St. Louis to test drive a Smart Car they have on order and my dad likes to have a day of rest before he goes back to work so Saturday we spent putting up our Christmas tree and a few other decorations. Hayden is fighting a bad cough/cold right now so he's been taking super long naps. We had the tree up and trimmed by the time he woke up.