Thanksgiving.

If you're waiting for a pretty Thanksgiving post with scrumptious food photos and a list of all the things I am thankful for, keep waiting.

I truly am thankful, and we had a lovely and delicious dinner, but my camera is actually already packed for the hospital trip in 18 days. Smile. The few photos captured here and from my husband's iphone.

 Thanksgiving Day was spent at my parents house. Above was the male entertainment--target practice with bow and arrows.

We played a game with the kids in the afternoon. Some of the "pickle stories" got pretty interesting. This one, I thought was quite appropriate for the day.

This is the only people picture I got--we took one of the family, but it was nothing to write home about.

We have all the Christmas decorating done, but I don't have pictures of everything yet--and may not get them for a while, so I'm sharing a few pics of another little project. Hubby printed off paper signs and cut the wood for me and I mod-podged these little do-da's for our room. They hang near the street sign-coat tree I showed you last week. Idaho is famous for potatoes and the pennzoil of course, comes from Pennslvania.

 Route 62, Pennslvania. Hubby's birthplace. Hwy 19, Idaho. My birthplace.

One more picture just for the fun of it. Kaite is relaxing in her dad-a-cliner while daddy reads a study book. Hope you all had a great thanksgiving and are enjoying this time of Christmas preparation and anticipation. We sure are! I must say, I am more ready for the little event leading up to Christmas, than for the big day itself. Baby was doing great as of Friday and dr says "December 12th if not before."

Project Baby

My list making skills are improving all the time, and I am happy to say that I'm also becoming quite adept at crossing things off said lists. It's not at all new for me to have "project lists" in the days leading up to a new baby. See, I know that once baby is here, I will want and need lots of rocking chair time.

Many of my projects actually have my husbands name on them--at least on the execution of them. He's been a real trooper about it all! Below is a picture my talented aunt painted for my parents many years ago. It has been needing a new frame of a rustic nature. All I had to do was give a good description and after a little time on Saturday, the project was complete. Scratch one item off the project list and off the Christmas too! Yay!

 Project Baby is coming along nicely as well. I am trying not to think about all the weight I'm going to have to work off afterwards. This has been a long and interesting pregnancy--seems like something new was around every corner all the way through. I'm relieved to only have 3 weeks left. Now it is time to start dreading the surgery and being away from my other kids for a few days while we recooperate in the the hospital. Below is the 36 week bump photo.

Back in February, we re-did our master bedroom as our 15th anniversary project. You might remember this post, or maybe this one, or finally this one. Well, anyway, all this time we had one more little detail in the plans. It never seemed to be in the time or money budget though, so finally we agreed that it would be our 2012 Christmas gift to each other....a little early.

 Here it is....a street sign coat tree. We found a good deal online for the custom signs, which actually turned out to be the least expensive part. When I was born, we lived on Harmony Lane (my parents are still there) and Rick's family resided in rural Pennslvania on Rural Route 1. After some brainstorming for a less the $50 post, hubby ended up using a $5 PVC pipe and building his own frame from old pallet pieces. He spray painted the pipe a steel gray and if you didn't thump it, you'd never know it wasn't the real deal. It worked out great for adding the smaller PVC pipes on which to hang things. Of course, I'm in love with the completed project.

It's a bit of an unusual piece, but I'm all about unique and unusual. I really like decor with meaning--not just pretty pieces.

Project Christmas shopping is complete and everything is even wrapped....just waiting for the tree, which always goes up the day after Thanksgiving. I have a few goodie baskets and things like that which will have to wait, but I've even done the planning and made the lists for those. I've written a rough draft of our Christmas letter too, but will have to add a few last minute details. Later. =) I think I've become just slightly OCD, but what else is a girl to do in the last few weeks of Project Baby?