Holiday Fun

Here are some pictures from the past couple of crazy days.

This was Thanksgiving at my fam's house. Kami enjoyed getting a green marshmallow stuck to her eye.

I made an apple pecan cheesecake this year, yummy. I still think I like the original cheesecake with strawberries better, but this was delicious. We had lots of good food and all my siblings made it for the feast. We hung out and planned strategies for black Friday. I am happy to say I slept through. Poor Kyle he took my sister and hit like six stores. We got some good deals though. We are not normally black Friday shoppers, but we found some good deals on things we were planning on buying anyways. We ended up saving over half what we spent. Christmas shopping is pretty much done.

Instead of going to the cabin Friday and Saturday we did this.

This is about 90% of the crap left in the basement. We hauled out 225 intact cinder blocks (this round) and five garbage cans of loose stuff, don't forget all the sheet rock and paneling in there. We swept it up and now besides the one pile left to haul out it looks half way decent down there. I am so excited to start framing up walls this week! We will hit a stopping point fairly soon when we need to redo the duct work. We are going to wait until spring and do that, then we will be spraying everything with kilz just to make sure. After that the girls will be in shortly and my pantry will be ready to use!

We also had some visitors this weekend. Devin, Julie and Anna came for a visit. Kami loved playing with Anna. She has been walking around the house calling for her since they left, it is so cute. She really wanted to wear Anna's shoes.

And Katie got to open an early Birthday present.

She has been playing with it non-stop and I keep finding pieces all over the house! We had a good visit and all the girls loved playing with their cousin. It would be so nice if we lived closer to them.
Now we have Birthday party stuff to do. The invitations are out and all the decorations are bought we just need to pick a cake. This is harder than it sounds if you are four. I am hoping she decides soon. I do need to get started. I tried to get her to go with a pirate theme, what a fun cake I could do, but nope the wait is still on. She is counting down the days and is so excited. We wrapped all her presents yesterday, the wrappable ones that is! We still have a big surprise in the basement she doesn't know about.
I got back into my running after all the festivities and crappy food we ate. Thankfully, I didn't have any problems and after discovering that my inhaler was out I remedied that and made life easier for myself. However, I can't get rid of that taste in my mouth you get after priming an inhaler and using it for the first couple of days, yuk.
Life around here has been super crazy, but we are all enjoying the holidays, except the cold weather -5 when we got up today. I didn't think they could go to school when it was that cold outside.