Thanksgiving Holiday

It was a very eventful Thanksgiving that was both relaxing and exhausting all in a four day period. It started with our first house guests, the Reeds. Olivia, JD and baby David stayed with us on Thanksgiving eve, and it was so fun seeing friends that we just dont get to see often enough.

The Reeds

No ideas mom!

Then we headed over to each of our parent's house to each our weight in food. It was also my birthday, so we ate cake too!

Saturday and sunday were spent tackling our front yard. I think one of the reasons our house didnt sell earlier was that the previous owners realy let the yard get to a "jungle-like" state. So, we set out to make our house visable again from the road.

Before the hack-fest (while leaves were still on the trees)

(Jordan blowing the yard o' leaves)

After! Once it was all said and done, we had filled about 15 bags of leaves and branches, Dad bought a new chainsaw and cut down about 5 trees, and we hauled another driveway full of limbs to the woods behind the house. Can we say advil? It looks almost bare now, but come spring we should have some controlled blooming. Thanks to mom and dad for giving up their saturday and sunday morning to help us. Now onto the back....

I also have another transformation to post, and that is finished basement we have dubbed Jordan's "Man Cave". Let me tell you ladies, dont let the name fool you, these are just as beneficial of a room to you as it is the them. It is a place to him to go and play his games, watch his games, and really get out of my way.  I love it.

We didnt think that couch would make it in, but after some elbow grease and one messed up wall, it made it!

All in all, I think it was a very productive weekend. We even got the Christmas decorations up! I'll post those later, enough pictures for one day!