Thanksgiving was a blast at my grandparents house. My parents, one of my sisters, my maternal grandparents, an aunt, two uncles and a cousin were all in attendance. (My middle sister is currently with her boyfriend's family in Mexico!) My favorite part of the meal was the turkey (light meat, please) with cranberry wine from the Olympic Peninsula.
It was great to catch up a little with my sister, Katie! She's been super busy in nursing school across the state. Hopefully, I'll see more of her this weekend, before she goes back!
I was sooo excited to wake up this morning, to start decorating our Christmas tree! After a nice run over the Ballard Locks, we started putting up the ornaments. We've had a great tree for the last three years that we keep in storage during the non-Christmas season. My husband and I realized the first year we had a tree together that the cats ate the needles. Also, when Lyra was a kitten, she tried to climb the Christmas tree.
[Christmas 2007]Thus, our sturdier plastic and wire version holds up better with our kitties. Plus, they just love to lounge underneath the tree all day!
[This is a picture of Lily Thomas and Lyra from last Christmas!]
We have so many ornaments already, that I only purchased a few irresistible ones this year. I found this darling red, white and blue
sailboat at Crate and Barrel last month.
I also couldn't pass up this
squirrel from Crate and Barrel! It reminds me of Lily Thomas, especially the tail! It also goes well with the reindeer, fox and raccoon of similar brush material that we found at Macy's a few years ago.
I absolutely love this knit ornament from
Anthropologie that I found in a after Christmas sale last year. The little dog looks like my childhood pet, Millie, a black and white English Springer Spaniel.
This metal cowboy is an older favorite ornament that my mom used to hang with the Christmas wreaths!
Our wedding cake toppers hang on our tree too!
This is our tree so far....
We have only unpacked about half of the ornaments this evening, mainly my favorite ones! I may need to survey the ornaments at my parents house before I stop decorating!
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
Take a look in the five and ten glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in ev'ry store
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front door."
Over the weekend, Mr F and I went to brunch, read a lot and had a long relaxing weekend. 
with corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots from a local deli 
and many green desserts! 
Someone even made Irish Soda Bread and brought Irish Butter!
We also had Green River punch! 
It was a hot, 80 degree day, which is so bizzare. Apparently it was in the 30s last year. It seemed like, everyone came out for the parade fully decked out in green! There could have easily been half a million people in the Loop at the same time as us. 
The ice skating rink was still set up in Millennium Park, melting away in the bright sun!
We had to see the Chicago River dyed green so we waded through the crowds to Wabash Ave. 
Apparently, orange vegetable dye is used to make the river so neon green. It was fascinating but gross at the same time. 
Our lepre-cats even dressed up for St. Patrick's Day!
Obviously, Lily and Lulu loved being lepre-cats. :)
It was so warm and beautiful that I took pictures of Lyra and Lily Thomas sunning themselves on the balcony. It's amazing that it's 60 degrees in February! 
Last night, we also celebrated my Mom and my Husband's birthday! It was great to see Janie!
This cheerio-encrusted Glee cupcake pretty much sums it up for me! 
This kitty cupcake photo reminds me of Lily Thomas too! And these Totoro cupcakes look like Lulu!
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[Lyra]
[Lily Thomas]
[Lily Thomas]
It was great to catch up a little with my sister, Katie! She's been super busy in nursing school across the state. Hopefully, I'll see more of her this weekend, before she goes back!
[Christmas 2007]
[This is a picture of Lily Thomas and Lyra from last Christmas!]
We have so many ornaments already, that I only purchased a few irresistible ones this year. I found this darling red, white and blue sailboat at Crate and Barrel last month.
We have only unpacked about half of the ornaments this evening, mainly my favorite ones! I may need to survey the ornaments at my parents house before I stop decorating! 
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