A Thankful Week

I feel like my heart could just explode with love at any given minute this week. The holidays always remind me of how truly blessed my life is but this year I feel it even more. We kicked off the holiday season over the weekend celebrating Jared's birthday (the 19th) and his dad's birthday (the 20th) plus had our first Thanksgiving with family. Talk about a lot of celebrating rolled into one weekend!

We played games at our house Saturday night with Kayla + Caleb and I'm pretty confident it was my worst losing streak ever. I lost at Banangrams, Life and even Sequence. I blame mom brain and lack of sleep, but we still had a great time. Playing games is one of my favorite things ever and it's nice to be able to still make time for them with friends. Definitely the perfect 'night-in' activity for us to host.

Jared and I were typical newb parents and we packed everything we could possibly ever need for little T and spent Sunday afternoon at his parent's house. Delicious food, football, gifts, cake and lots of laughter rounded out the day. T only napped about 30 minutes while we were there which was a tad stressful on this momma, but he hung in there like a champ. When we finally got home that little boy crashed hardddd and was still recovering the next day, I think. Let's hope he can keep up with the rest of the busy holiday week ahead!

And yes, you might have noticed some Christmas decorations up there in those photos... it's true. This is the first year Jared and I have ever decorated this early. We have always done it the day/weekend after Thanksgiving but something got into us Friday night and we decided to put everything up then. I absolutely love putting our ornaments on the tree and enjoying all the memories that come with each one. Jared and I both have tons of childhood ornaments from our own parents and grandparents and we are looking forward to buying T his own first ornament this year!

I hope you are all counting your blessings this week and looking forward to a few days away from work soon! Cheers to this short, holiday week!!