Happy Thanksgiving

 I am notoriously late at planning Thanksgiving.  I'm always secretly hoping that I won't have to do it; that someone will invite us and get me off the hook.  Unfortunately, that's only happened twice in the 17 years we've lived here, so I really should know better.  However, as usual, 2 weeks before Thanksgiving, we still had no plans.  So I asked Kelly to text his best friend Tim and see if he had plans, and if not, if we could do it together.  Of course, he did.  Luckily he's also really nice, and so he invited us to join him.  So, we spent Thanksgiving at Tim and Ann Cartwright's house along with another ward family, and the missionaries.  It was a wonderful evening and the food was fantastic.  Here is the only picture I thought to take:

Classic Michelle.  I feel bad that the missionaries didn't even get a photo of their last Thanksgiving on the mission!  Good memories were made, though.

On black Friday we didn't feel like shopping, so we wanted to go see The Festival of Trees in Dearborn, but turns out that thing is lame and costs money, so after driving 20 minutes to get there and deciding against it, Christian suggested we do a little shopping after all - for Detroit merch.  He was interested in buying a hoodie from Detroit and I knew of a fun little Detroit merch shop in the Fisher Building, so we headed downtown.  That was a great idea.  So fun to see a bit of Detroit on a beautiful sunny day and the store had fun, cute things.  Also, the Fisher building is always such a great, historic icon to visit.  We made sure to get a photograph with a tree in there.

The only tree we photographed at the Festival of Trees:

The much better one at the Fisher Building:

Note Peter's face? That's his new picture face which he thinks is absolutely hilarious.  Thank goodness everything is a phase at that age!

Peter got tired in that big building, so Christian gave him a piggy back ride on the way back.

To round off the day, we got pizza at MOD and took it to a park. It made me so happy to spend the day with my kids hanging out together.  Beautiful weather, good food, fun at the park.  I have so much for which to be thankful.  

Now we're ready to get Christmas going!  Bella has already begun with multiple Christmas crafts and decorations.  Even Christian has joined in.  It's all Christmas music here all the time now too.  It's going to be a great season!