heavens to betsy, it's good to be back.

since i left you on thanksgiving

so much has happened.

thanksgiving day-

woke up to a husband missing...

happy first thanksgiving married hunny - sent through a text

BIGGEST day for hunting.

this day is when I usually start rocking out to my Christmas music.

thanks to JB I've been secretly listening to him when the hubs is not around.

not this day... it was blaring so hard that when my brother called to wish us a

 Happy Turkey Day, I wished him a Merry Christmas instead. Opps!

before preparing my thanksgiving dishes, I thought I'd tell the hubby what

I'm thankful for.

so I wrote this and taped it to the front door for when he came home he'd see.

Aaron always gets lucky with a nice deer on this day, however not this year.

sorry babe.

 

we arrived at my uncle & aunts house at about 12:30 - most of my family were there.

we drank too much wine.

speaking for myself.

only like 5 glasses.

my aunt Amy and I were on a roll.

{full thanksgiving recap later}

i made our families traditional celery/olive/pickle dish...



both of these were demolished before dinner was ready. :) 

and my favorite -  

{how about my pretty willow house dish... LOVE IT} 

after dinner with my family, we headed back to our home town for

another feast with Aaron's family.

we were home & watching football by 8pm.

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we were both back up at 5:00am

he was headed out the door to go hunting, while I was meeting my parents.

i left my hubby for the weekend & tagged along with Mom & Aaron {my dad} to Charleston for the weekend along with my steph sister, her hubby, & step brother.

First time to Charleston... LOVED it.

It reminds me so much of Savannah, would love to go back.

we shopped, shopped, and shopped.

we went to St. James Park on Saturday where they have a drive through Christmas light show. If you are close or even a few hours away from Charleston, you must do this.

it's $12 a car and totally worth seeing.

we got out at Santa's village & roasted marsh mellows & ate smores - a lot for children to do & see.{Rock Climbing, Train Rides, Carasols, etc.}

did I mention it was only the ladies.

Me. Momma. My step sister, Jennifer.

We walked around and walked through the trails to see more lights.

amazing.

seriously, you need to go.

another first timer for me, was shopping at Kohl's.

Wow.

We went there twice. Once Saturday & once at a different Kohl's before we left on Sunday.

We also made a trip to Best Buy on Friday night -

where I bought my hubby's big Christmas present...

I'm super proud.

however, i can not hide this - or should I say I didn't hide this very well.

a Christmas present delivered a month early.

remember in our second month of marriage when everything broke in our house?

okay well since then, we've been using his parents back porch T.V - 

Wa-La.

Not only did his mouth drop when my dad asked him for a hand to carry this bigN out of the motor home, but he also about crapped his pants when he saw the 8 bags of stuff also trampling into our house.

Let's just say, Our Christmas list went from 36 people down to only having to buy for 2.

Yes - I'm good.

Now for my favorite part. Wrapping.

Sunday  was spent with Aaron & unpacking.

It's always nice to get away, but wonderful to come home.

he was very happy to see me. ") {i'm blushing}

is it rude to admit when hearing him say "my weekend was lonely."

mind you he hunted all weekend but them came home to quiet.

i love it when he misses me.

we ended our weekend with dinner in the living room {pizza} & football.

it was great until ....

about 9:00 - my body took a turn for the worst.

I started to feel extremely sick.

minutes later - i was on the worst date of my life with our guest bathroom.

remember this day when me & the hubs were both out with the flu?

well it was deja vu' all over again for me - minus the body ache.

I stayed home from work yesterday - yuck.

let's just say Aaron was at the 24-hr gas station up the road from our house  Monday morning at 5am getting me gingerale - this body could not hold anything down.

it.was.awful.

 Here I am today -

back to ME - back to Jessica, feeling wonderful!

Thank you Lord!

 

 Oh - How could I forget, I did complete my fireplace Sunday evening also

Now - if we can just go get our Christmas Tree {Tonight maybe?}

... final picture.

Happy Tuesday Bloggers! :)

{please give a warm prayer for step-brother Chris, as he & my parents drive to Emory this evening for his first round of Chemo tomorrow morning.}

Oh. one more thing.

I had an anonymous blogger ask me to do a link up to share our engagement rings - she & her {soon to be} fiance' are ring shopping and she wants some ideas. So go ahead an prepare your posts, I hope to do this sometime this week.