Bring on the decorating!!

My favorite season has officially begun!! I can't belive its this time of year again already! We had a good thanksgiving with my Mom, Dad and sisters. We ate lots of great food and tried out some new recipes this year! I've gotten really into the food network and love Paula Deen, Barefoot Contessa, just to name a few. I tried 2 Paula Deen recipes that turned out great! One was sweet potato ball, and the other was applesauce pumpkin pie. Let me know if you want either recipe, they were so good. If I knew more about how to post, I could put the links on here for you! Maybe I'll try later on :)
I've included some pics from Thanksgiving day, and some before and after shots of our Christmas decorations. Let the Christmas shopping begin!!

Lucy loves sitting under the tree! She looks a little bit evil in this picture tho.

Bita, Mom and Rachel on Thanksgiving

Sarah and Rachel helping to decorate the tree
I'm not really sure what Rusty is doing here :)
Lucy LOVES getting into boxes-this is the Christmas tree box
our little baby upstairs tree

We've been elfed!!

Thanks to my friend Nancy for showing me this website, I just had to try it :)

Follow the link, you won't be disappointed...

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9560475916

Pictures and shout outs!

As promised, here are some pictures! Sorry it took so long! I had to wait for Rusty to fix the computer and he did! HE is the man. :) We have to make a couple of shout outs with this post too. First of all, congrats to our good friends EJ and Mandy who welcomed Zoey Leigh to the world 2 weeks ago!! She is beautiful!! We also wanted to say hi to Jon, Marisa, Collin and Summer, who stayed with us for 10 awesome days...we had so much fun with you guys and cannot wait to see you again! And last but not least, we are so excited to see Brandon, Anya and Sasha this week, who are here for thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

A self taken picture :)

At the reception of the wedding Rusty was in

Tabitha holding Zoey for the first time

Rusty and Tabitha at the Covered Bridge Festival
Sarah with our pumpkins-pre carved!
Rusty's pumpkin turned out awesome!
This is a random pic but I thought it was so sweet