Friday we took the girls to Green Garden farms to chop down our Christmas tree. We took the hayride out to the fields then found our perfect tree. Dad chopped it down then the girls had fun pulling the tree in the cart! We went to the warming house for hot cocoa and cookies then visited the ponies and ducks. We brought the beagles with and they enjoyed walking around too - it was their first ride in our van! It was so nice to have the extra room for them to come with.
Saturday we got up early and went to the Beverly Hills Turkey Trot 5K. Beverly is a neighborhood in Chicago very rich in the Irish culture, really cute older home and HILLY streets! It was a perfect day for running. They had bounce houses and a nice playground so the girls really enjoyed that. Dad pushed the double stroller again and I ran alone. I ran my fastest 5k so far - 25:47. Still not the fastest but considering my first race this year was 31:10, much improved!! The course was really great, lots of downhills and lots of up but overall a nice run. Later we made our big pork and cranberry, mashed potato, broccoli and stuffing dinner and dad's pumpkin pie for dessert. We also made cookies (in honor of my dad) and after Annie was asleep decorated our tree (we started to in the afternoon but after Annie started to take off most ornaments, decided to finish after she was in bed) and watched our traditional Charlie Brown Christmas. Mia stayed up and had hot cocoa too.
Mia putting the first ornament on the tree - her new ornament of the year. Annie's new ornament is a green duck :)
Mia and dad set up the Nativity set today. Mia LOVES it and seriously played with it all day long! She went up in front at church today and helped put real hay in the manger for the first week of Advent.
Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
No comments:
Post a Comment