belated & present {holiday happenings}

So life lately seems to have fallen into about 4 categories for me: eating, walking, crafting, and trimming (the house, the tree, whatever I can trim!). So I'll cover a few highlights from each... First, eating... I know this is a bit belated, but I just had to share a photo of Mum's tasty turkey cookies. She makes these every year for Thanksgiving and it just wouldn't be quite the same without her pretty sugar cookies.

Our Thanksgiving was really pleasant, spending time with our sweet family and eating lots of good things...and then walking some of it off with our annual Thanksgiving walk...not quite as many participants as last year though...about 13 or so. I love this part of the day! We walk through my uncle's neighborhood, with him leading the way, winding our way through quaint streets and cutting through the woods with leaves crunching beneath our feet. After spending the holiday away, we had a quiet weekend back home. I, doing heaps of crafting, packaging, and seeking out good light for picture-taking (not an easy task these days)...and Hub, climbing the roof and stringing Christmas lights. On Sunday, we went to pick out a tree from Pappy...the kind man down the road that we buy our tree from each year. If you recall what happened last year, well...this year he wouldn't let Hub transport our tree home that way...He insisted on throwing it in his truck and delivering it to our home...and you just don't argue with Pappy. What service! So we trimmed the tree that afternoon and since then I've been adding more to it and rearranging the ornaments as necessary, rather obsessive-compulsively...does anyone else do this? ;)
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P.S. The sweet and I'm pretty sure the kindest blogger I know, Dionne, wrote an interesting little article about tags and featured LillyBonBon within it. Go take a peak right here!
~Merci!~