I am thankful for our Family and Friends

While I really loved being up north last Thanksgiving with our friends, the Hathorns, it was good to be with family this year.

Thanksgiving week began a week ago Friday when Drew & Alex got out of work and school to go up to Bill's to hunt deer. They were up there Friday and came home Tuesday night. They did not have a successful trip but the permits are good for the December hunt at well. Wednesday they took Daisy and Maddie out for a treat to hunt pheasant at Chain O Lakes State Park. The dogs had a great day & the guys made some awesome Greek lemon, phesant & rice soup. YUM!

While the guys were gone Ashley & I had a pretty busy weekend ourselves. Friday after school we had friends over for "Friday Afternoon Club" then we were off to rehearsal for Rainbow Official Visit.

Saturday morning we returned to Waukegan Masonic Temple for Raidant's Official Visit. Ashley is Drill Leader of the assembly now. She was an oustanding drill leader. I am very proud of her. As drill leader, she presents the American flag for the pledge and escorts people around for introductions. For OV there are a lot of introductions so she had a lot of floorwork.

Sunday we continued Rainbow events with pie making for a fundraiser. The adults and the girls made a total of 100 pies to sell at the Lake County Court House on Tuesday. We only worked on Sunday but it was fun.

Monday & Tuesday we went to school and enjoyed the Dancing With the Stars Finally without channel flipping.

Wednesday we went to Borders where Ashley got the books she needed to be in the Rebecca Caudill reading club at school. She has 4 books to read by sometime in January after which kids in the 'club' will create questions about the books, answer them and test each other. Eventually they will compete against students from the other schools in the district. Ashley all ready has 1 book read, a book report for Communications class written and has started the next book.

Thursday we picked up my mom and went to Grandma & Grandpas to enjoy the company of family, especially our sweet little nieces and for a great Thanksgiving feast.

Yesterday, I'm not sure what the heck we did. We did not participate in black Friday. We played games, watched football & just hung out.