My favorite time of year

Beginning the week of Thanksgiving, something exciting is ignited in me. Something that makes me feel warm and cozy...the joy that arrives with my favorite holiday season, from Turkey day to Christmas! I enjoy everything about this season: seeing my family so much, all the red, decorating the Christmas tree and then sitting in a cozy living room to enjoy its beauty, drinking hot chocolate, wearing flannel pjs, Christmas lights everywhere, people filled with excitment, Christmas music, and watching fun Christmas shows on tv. Like now. I'm watching the lighting of the Christmas tree in NYC on tv, baking pumpkin cookies for our ladies Christmas lunch tomorrow while waiting on Rick to come over for dinner.

The beginning of all the fun was our wonderful Thanksgiving! I had 3 this year! I went to Covington with Rick for his fam Thanksgiving, then we had my family in Salina. Then on Thanksgiving day, I cooked my first turkey and had a wonderful meal at my brother's house with him, his beautiful wife and new baby girl, and my parents. Here are some photos of all the fun... my cute Papa and my cousins, Laura and Kaitlyn...

My first turkey!! And Matt getting ready to learn how to carve it...

The Wheeler gals! And of course, the star of the show, my beauty niece Kaydence.