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Our Thanksgiving at my parents house was delightful. Except for the extra hour the turkey took to cook. Imagine eleven pairs of eyes staring at you. Eleven hungry people asking when they could eat. They were good sports.

We ate mid afternoon this year. Gotta get home and milk goats.

My niece (in the red) was only there for about an hour. She works at JC Penny and had to work on Thanksgiving.

We will be back up there this weekend to celebrate multiple birthdays.

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A few days before Thanksgiving, Vincent, the German exchange student living on our lane, came by with a basketball fundraiser. Selling Christmas trees. Even though it has been a number of years since we got a Christmas tree on Thanksgiving weekend, we bought one from Vincent.

On Saturday we went to the tree farm to pick out our tree. Wonderful family farm, sounds like the family is the third generation on this land. The trees take up 20 acres.

We didn’t have to walk too far before we found one all of us liked.

Michael cut it down.

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The boys began to carry it to the truck but Nicholas switched jobs with Michael. He had forgotten to wear gloves.

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Really beautiful place and trees. So glad to help the high school basketball team and get a beautiful tree too.

Now comes the decorating. I think I’ll promote the boys to “head decorators”. 🙂

Enjoy the Christmas season,
Karen