Then my family came to play

So we shopped a bit on Friday, and went to the Logan Temple. Then we came home and on Saturday, we set up the tree and got holiday-ee!

Stop by and I will light the pine-y smell-y candle for you! That afternoon, the Lewis family stopped by on their way back from the Idaho-mecca.
Then Holly and Matt came by to play on Sunday!
Oh, let me mention here that on Saturday night I was running up to help  Ash stop coughing and tripped on the little stairs and wacked (REALLY HARD) my hand against the wood banister. So my two left pointer and next to it fingers/knuckles were all bruised and ouchy.

Then on Sunday morning, because my fingers were slow, I totally closed the curling iron on my left thumb. OUCH. Let's just say that organ playing on Sunday was painful at best (in many different ways) and several people mocked the huge wet spot on my skirt due to my leaking ice-pack. I had ice on the thumb for like 10 hours and today it is WAY better! And it is generally way way better today.
Baby Ben, was of course, a HUGE hit. Aunt  Holly explained "over stimulation" to the girls (can you see why?) I heard he slept real good last night:

 And Emma was as cute as ever. Her hair is getting so LONG!

Well I am tired. I will have to write about Monday tomorrow. Have a nice sleep!

Turkeys with the Herrons

That is right, there were TWO turkeys (regular and smoked) at the Herron Thanksgiving Festivities! Here are some random pictures I remembered to take to show that we were actually there:

Then Turkey day I took a WONDERFUL three hour nap/thinking in bed time, and everyone was fine! Ashley has grown QUITE a lot in her social skills since last year. She went around talking to everyone and spent quite a bit of time explaining things to Grandpa. It was awesome!
We also took the plunkos out on their first-ever Black Friday/Thursday night shoppping. We were after some Barbies, race cars, race traack and squishy toy thing. Also Legos. We camped out for about an hour, heard a fight in the $5 DVD line, Austin almost got smushed, Brackson had a bunch of lady friends around him in the Lego line but after the word "Go" he reported it was a mad-house of pushing and shoving. Cass and her friend were not injured, but pretty hyped up after we finally found them after the melee. Austin did report two small cuts. It was GREAT!
But, surprisingly, no one wanted to go with me at 6 a.m. to Joann's for fabric! Cassidy and I hid fabric on Wednesday night, and all our stuff was right where we left it! AND some wonderful woman traded me her cutting number, because I was ready and she was still selecting fabric! Yah!
Also, I scored the needed-the-the-year-two-cases-of-play-dough, so we are set for guests! Happy shopping!

What do you do with a WHOLE WEEK off!!?!

Josh took ALL of turkey week OFF! Here is what you can do with a weird school schedule and a handy-honey home all week!
You go shopping at a cool educational toy store and get, um, gifts for next month... Then you go to IKEA and get a desk for Ashley's room AND a cool toy car map/rug!

 And you play LOTS and lots of board games with the girls:

 Then you make CUTE turkey cupcakes for the Herron Turkey Day festivities:

 I made yummy, yummy Portuguese salted cod with cream: (it takes a long time).

 And, to show you just how relaxed I am being these days... We were in charge of pies for the festivities.... and I used FAKE PIE CRUST! That is right, no sweating, no rolling pins, it was GREAT! (and the pies were yummy too).