Thanksgiving and Xmas decorating!

Well, just like everyone else, we managed to survive Thanksgiving without exploding. We may have went up a few pants sizes however. Wendi and I had thanksgiving dinner with my family in Peru since her family is half way across the country in Pennsylvania. We will be visiting them for Christmas. Here is a nice photo of my three youngest nieces from Thanksgiving day. I'm not exactly sure what they were doing, but it made a nice photo.

The day after Thanksgiving....known to most as "black Friday" we decided to avoid shopping at all costs and just spend the day relaxing and decorating for Christmas. To completely understand what Christmas means to Wendi, you would have to visit her mother's house and see the "christmas room" that stays decorated for Christmas all year....ALL YEAR!!! Wendi has boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of decorations that we had to find (remember we moved since last Christmas) and bring in.

We have a really great, artificial tree that we got from my brother. It is huge and this year we have a lot more room for it. Last year, it pretty much, filled our living room. Anyway, I put together the tree while Wendi decorated the rest of the house. We stopped for long enough to see the Purdue Men's Basketball team get beat by Oklahoma. After that, we finished decorating the tree. It looks great! Now all it needs are some presents under it. I guess we will have to go to the stores after all.

Here is the tree (and Wendi) in their full, festive glory!