Busy Bee

My have we had a busy, but very exciting, week!!
We kicked off last weekend with my parents coming in town!! It was my Daddy's Birthday and we had a blast!! We grilled out, had cake, and played with a NEW HELICOPTER...All the men in my family love flying objects...especially if they have a remote control! Which definitely includes a friendly competition where they have created some sort of obstacle in which they have to accomplish it without hitting objects, walls, etc, or getting caught in air currents, in addition to beating each others time. It is in fact, a site to see! They have used blimps in the past...large, slow, and hard to maneuver. This time, a helicopter. Which by the way is not fun to untangle from your hair if in fact someone looses control of the helicopter and it drops on your head while the numerous blades are still spinning...But this pilot will remain nameless because it was his birthday. :) (sorry, no pics of the helicopter)
In addition to my parents being in town, Peyton had a big Sunday! She was dedicated to the church. It was a fast, but a very meaningful event!! (pictures below)

And today, Mimi came in town!! Mimi is Peyton's favorite babysitter. She had watched Peyton at least once a week since Peyton was 8 weeks old until we moved to Athens. She truly has become part of our family and is like another grandmother to Peyton! We LOVE our Mimi!! Mimi also brought Peyton a couple Christmas presents!:) She received a wonderful talking tea set and teddy bear that sings "Jesus Loves Me," and from Mr. Bob (Mimi's husband) a CALCULATOR!!  Peyton LOVES Mr. Bob!!  She would go sit with Mr. Bob in his office an play on his calculator and make VERY LONG receipts. And so, from Mr. Bob..a Calculator!! :)

Here are pictures from our week!
More to come...Busy Bee's in December!!

Dad blowing out his candle!

(I had NO clue where all my candles were...so he got 1)

Peyton being dedicated

(she was trying to take off my name tag...she succeeded a couple seconds later)

Dedication

Mimi and Peyton:)

Mimi and Peyton having a tea party with her new tea set!

Peyton's CALCULATOR!! (Thank You Mr. Bob!!)

Thanksgiving

What a wonderful word...Thanksgiving! We are very Thankful for MANY MANY things... We are truly Blessed!

We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving. We started out with Pre-Thanksgiving at my parents house in Kennesaw. It was a wonderful time with friends and family and my mothers wonderful sweet potato casserole! As Peyton would say "Num Num"! It is truly my FAVORITE thing for Thanksgiving. Then for actual Thanksgiving we headed up to Cashiers, NC to spend Thanksgiving with Paul's Dad and Stepmom. We had a wonderful time just hanging out! Deborah made an AMAZING Thanksgiving meal and we all enjoyed it! Peyton however was a little squirrely so after a couple of bites, she went down for a nap. She was...let's say...having issues. Who knows what got into her. Could have been the car ride. Could have been that she was a little sickly but she was giving me a run for my money! We did however have a wonderful time and visit with them!! The only thing that I would have changed was our choice of car. We brought the Accord... which would have been a great choice at any other time of year, but this was the end of November. One thing that North Carolina offers, is great Christmas trees. Christmas tree farms where you can go and pick yours out, cut it down, and bring it home. I really wanted one but as we did the math...5ft roof...9ft tree = Miserable car ride home. However, we went to take a look anyway. We went to Tom Sawyer's Tree Farm, which Tom and his family were friends of George and Deborah.  They had a wonderful Elf village for children where they could dress up as elves and wonder around to each little house and do little activities. We peeked in one and there was an Elf having story time. So Paul, George, Peyton and I joined story time. It was actually very fun! I felt a little big sitting inside a small house in child size chairs, but Peyton enjoyed it. :) We had a good time and learned a lesson for next time...Bring the 4-runner!
However, as luck would have it...on the way home, about 20 minutes outside of Athens, we saw signs for a tree farm. So on Saturday we piled in the 4-runner and followed the signs to 7 G's Farm. It is a wonderful tree farm that grows Leyland Cypress trees. It was great! It was a little overwhelming though with so many PERFECT trees to choose from. However, after about an hour we found our tree, had the man come chop it down, brought it home, and on Sunday decorated it. It is a little over 10ft...BIG...But perfect! See pictures below:)

Tom Sawyer's Tree Farm with George

Pey running at Tom Sawyer's

7 G's Tree Farm

Timberrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Our Christmas Tree:)