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What a wonderful time we had with family and lots of yummy food!
We started our morning doing the turkey trot... running 5 miles to start your day keeps the guilt away during your Thanksgiving meal!  While we were gone Joel and Zach stayed home and got the turkey's in the oven.

It was a perfect day to spend indoors with family!

they make us all smile and laugh!

and we sure do have some...

Chelsea and I ran the turkey trot on Thanksgiving morning and it was awesome!  We had been watching the weather all week as they were calling for rain.  We figured it was an hour or so in the rain and we were up for the challenge!
We got downtown and parked and found our way to the Galleria starting point.  After standing in line for the bathroom we had just minutes before the race started.  We...

Today Chelsea and I are starting our day with a 5 mile run downtown.  The Turkey Trot is today and we are going to be a couple of soggy turkeys for sure!  I am grateful for the opportunity!

I started Christmas shopping a while ago, and I'm doing pretty good so far although my mom, sister and I spend a day shopping and that's when I get some serious shopping done!
I love getting handmade gifts and last Sunday I went to the Litchfield craft show and picked up some gifts for others and some gifts for me!  A couple of my favorite things include the Snowmen that Trish makes, the jewelry...

TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to:http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.
1. What is your holiday wish for your family? That we have a safe, happy holiday and share in more special memories and of course all their wishes come true.
2. What is your Christmas morning tradition?...

I finished it and I'm so excited for the fact that I finished a project and I'm just thrilled with how it turned out.  It seems sometimes I don't do a project because I have such high expectations of how I want it to turn out and then it never gets done.  This one once I started in, I enjoyed every step of it.

I mostly used the October afternoon Christmas line with some 7 gypsies, Tim Holtz and...

Every year we try and make it into Medina Square for the candlelight walk, this year we had the perfect weather to do so!

It's a great way to get into the season!

I had to drag the family through my favorite store in town, Perfectly Charming!


although I don't think my family was quite as excited about the decor as I was.

Chelsea asked someone to get our picture while in the square
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If you are local and want to get a start on your handmade gifts for Christmas then check out the Litchfield craft show on Sunday November 21st from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The Litchfield town hall is located at 9254 Norwalk Road in the circle.  Admission is free.
I'm still working on my mini's, I just got the 3 X 3 pictures I ordered to fill some of them.  Picking up some more pictures today to fill this...

I started picking up some Christmas gifts over the past few weeks and I was getting to the point of needing to get things written down so I knew what was done and what was left to do.  Then I saw this blog post at 11pm last night.  I was ready to go to bed but then something in me thought I have the supplies for this...
and so it began!
A Christmas planner that I could write my things to do,...

thinking about Ryan lately.  Not that he's not always on my mind, but most times I have that "It's better to have loved and lost than to not loved at all" attitude.  Not today...
It all started when I found a box in the closet that contained a lot of his artwork from his school days.  In there was a calendar, one that marked the last year of his life.  As I scanned through the months looking for...