Our Thanksgiving and the Beginning of Christmas

I wanted to start this post by posting some pics from our late summer and early fall trips down south.

On trip gave us the opportunity to visit with our good friends that moved to Texas. It was so wonderful to see them!

OK, so here's the events of our Thanksgiving.

The Monday that week Little H went in for his surgery.

Here he is after his relaxing drugs. They brought him so much cute stuff to help him through it all. He was much easier then Little M for this part because he just laid there and kind of fell asleep-- Little M wiggled and tried to jump off the bed.

After the surgery he was pretty upset, but easier to calm down then Little M. He eventually fell back to sleep.

We then waited for him to wake up. They gave him a yummy Popsicle, and then we were good to go home. Big H and Grandma came just as we were leaving, and the twins rode out together in a wheel chair.

 
Two hernia's repaired. He was so happy to get it all fixed. But his recovery was a little tougher then Little M's. He complained of pain a lot and then he got constipated. But we made it through, and he's feeling much better.

We had a small Thanksgiving with my parents this year. It was just us and them.

Oh and Little H's "baby kitty".

Like father. . .

. . .like son.

Goof Balls!

Craig's Movember 'Stache-- or beard. He grew it in two days.

Craig and headed to Black Friday Sales after dinner-- I was very upset about the times this year. After that we headed to my Aunt's for pie. Then everyone got their Christmas Jammies-- even Craig and I.

We are now trying to switch modes to Christmas. We enjoyed the Festival of Trees last Friday. Before we went we took Little H to pick out some glasses. or "Parker's" as he calls them. His right eye is weak, so his brain stopped using it. We need to convince him to wear a patch, and he'll have glasses from now on.

Here he is flashing The Flash.

We found some frames that suited his tastes, and then we headed to The Festival of Trees.

These are terrible pics from my phone.

Some highlights were:
. . .these Super hero trees.  . .

. . .this tree made out of plastic pop can rings.  . .

 . . .this huge Gingerbread house. . .

. . .Origami. . .

. . .and Santa. . .

 The next night my parents drove me and the boys-- Craig had to work-- down to Helper in a snow storm. My brother and his family live there now, and they invited us to come see the light parade.

The parade was cute and I liked seeing my brother's home, but the ride back was more than I ever want to experience again.

Wish us luck as we get ready for Christmas. I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!