Stuffed

After two full-out Thanksgiving dinners and two gluttonous days of leftovers, I think I am quite ready to move on into the Christmas season. It is snowing outside, Ella is tucked into bed and I am planning out my first year as Santa.

We'll have a full house this coming weekend when Andy, Amy and Abby come to stay. This will be Ella's first time having Abby over -- for three days, no less. She will not even know what to do with herself, she'll be so happy. We might even try to sneak Brady over, too! Ella will not know who to kiss first.

We forgot our camera at my parents' house last night, so what few pictures we have of the Thanksgiving celebrations will have to wait. But we had our old camera today and even though Ella has been a bit under the weather with tummy trouble, we plopped her into a pile of leaves. She was not as lively as usual, but certainly cute.