Friday's Fab Five

I hope everyone had a very happy {and fabulous} Thanksgiving! Here's what's been happening around the Calton's this week!

1. We celebrated Brennan's first Thanksgiving. Even though we are far away from our immediate family, we are very blessed to have my aunt and uncle and their kids up here in Connecticut. We spent Thanksgiving with them at my cousin's new house. Beth and Luke's house is great. They are doing a lot of work to it and it was awesome to have Thanksgiving at their new place. I do feel like a terrible mother because I only took one picture of Brennan all day! I guess we were just too busy eating to take more!

2. Our Christmas tree is up! I love Christmas. I love Christmas music and decorations. I do get a little annoyed at how early Christmas decorations seem to come out. It seems earlier each year. But now that Thanksgiving is behind us, I am certainly in the Christmas spirit. We put up the tree and put out a few other decorations too. One year I really want to go all out with outside decorations. For this year I just have three bows outside.

3. I wrapped Brennan's Christmas presents today. We aren't doing too much for him since he is still so little. Plus we know he will be getting more presents from our families. If you can keep a secret, I'll let you know what we got him.

We got him the Stack 'n Surprise Blocks Songs 'n Smiles Sillytown.

We also got him the Laugh & Learn Fun With Friends Musical Table. (little girl not included)

And he is getting some Duplo blocks that we found at a consignment store.

4. Remember when I made these letters for Brennan's room? Well now I am going to make some for Amanda's daughter, Adah. I will show you the final product when I actually get around to doing it. I'm not sure if I want to show Amanda a picture before I send them to her though. Hopefully they'll turn out well.

5. Last, but certainly not least, this past Monday we had dinner over and Rob and Amanda's house! This was the 2nd time they've had us over for a delicious dinner! On Monday we ate hamburgers and watched UK play Oklahoma in basketball! Parker and Brennan have fun playing together. Brennan loved riding in Parker's police cruiser while Parker pushed him around. Maybe a car like this will be a birthday present!

Have a wonderful weekend!