Thanksgiving week blog

I am so excited to spend the next several days visiting relatives and celebrating Thanksgiving!  First on my agenda, though, is to sleep in!  I've been up late the past few nights finishing Christmas projects, and editing photos from my most recent shoot.  

You can see a few of them on my photography blog: http://momentscapturedbyshannon.wordpress.com/  or on my Moments Captured Facebook page.  

The kids are also excited to be out of school for several days.  We took them to a late (8:45 pm) movie tonight, since they didn't have to be in bed early.  We saw the Smurfs!  Cute movie!  Smurfs was one of my favorite cartoons as a child.  :)  I love it when the kids and I can be on the same wavelength for some things.  They actually love lots of shows I grew up with. We check them out at the library.  They've enjoyed: Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie, Diff'rent Strokes, Dukes of Hazzard, Mork and Mindy, Full House, and many others.  I love spending time with them doing things that we all enjoy!  Hopefully, the next several days will be full of lots of great family time  - my my family and yours!  

Happy Thanksgiving!

I figure it's about time to check in again.  I am loving the fall colors and weather this year (except today - it's COLD!)  I feel like I've been very busy - but it's mostly been all fun stuff.  I'm so blessed!  I spend a lot of time volunteering at the kids' school and working on my PTA committees, which is very important to me.  I get to work on my family history once a week, which has been very enlightening and interesting. The occasional photography job is very exciting for me, and every once in a while I find time to catch up on laundry. :)  I have to give my wonderful husband credit for doing the dishes more often than I do.  He's the greatest!

The past two weekends have been spent with my family - and Damian's first hunting season.  He was disappointed that they didn't get anything.  We also had our first Thanksgiving dinner for this year at the Gonzales'.  It was wonderful!  My mother-in-law is a great cook!  I also got to see my very talented brother in his high school musical, which was fun.
I'm looking forward to our next Thanksgiving dinner with my Grandad, who's driving in from CA. It's so wonderful when we get to see him!
So, I'm ready for Thanksgiving - but feel so unprepared for Christmas this year!  I don't know why, but I hope my "Christmas spirit" returns soon.
I did go out and scout a park location for a photo shoot this weekend, and they  already had Christmas decorations up.  It was very merry.