Turkeys, Snow and Christmas Lights

Ivorie's first Thanksgivings were great. We started at Grandpa Art's on Thanksgiving and of course she got to try some of the famous cheese roll ups, and like every Klofstad, she loved them! Then on Saturday we went to the Buckner Thanksgiving. Nana even made Jell-O, which was a lot more fun to play with than to eat! Ivorie got to play with her cousins Amanda and Amber as well, it was a great day.

We have gotten a little snow the past few days, nothing to get too excited about, but enough that we got Ivorie a snow suit and have been lugging her around in that instead of just a coat. She loves her snowsuit, I'm sure it is super comfy, I wish I could be wrapped in fleece all day... hmmm maybe I should get a snuggie?

The big debate with the christmas lights was settled and if you would like to drive down Lake Street North at dark, you will see who won! About a week before Thanksgiving, I started to talk about putting up the Christmas lights, we have every year since we have lived in our house. It's always been the white icicle lights. Well the first year we put up the lights (ok lets be honest, Lance put them up) and then Lance took them down. The next year he put them back up, and then took them down, and instead of storing them the same as the previous year (which I think involed a laundry basket) he had a bright idea to lay them all out in the yard and he was going to wrap them around cardboard. Then it snowed. So the lights stayed under the snow until spring and then got thrown away. So the next year (which was 2008) I went out and bought all new lights because I was going to have lights on my house! Lance again put them all up, and then took them all down, and this year laid them out in the garage (getting smarter!) and then they sat there for the entire Spring and Summer, then in the fall I noticed that they were picked up, (by this time I don't know why he didn't just leave them there until it was time to hange them) So a week before Thanksgiving, I asked if we could put the lights up and Lance said "we don't need lights this year" and I said "of course we need lights, it's Ivorie's first Christmas, Did you ruin my brand new lights?" and Lance said "No I did not ruin your lights.... I threw them away!" I was so mad since we had just bought them the year before. So we went back and forth for the entire week and finally decided on Multi Colored C-9 lights, they were very easy to put up, I even helped this year, by putting them on the shed! So Please drive by at night and look at the lovely lights, and make sure to mention to Lance how great they look!