This has been a rough month. In spite of the heartbreak I'm feeling for the Christiansen's, though, I'm feeling incredibly thankful. We hosted 2 benefits for Team Avery in November and both were very well attended and we raised over $10,000! It was so humbling to see people who had never even met Jeremy, Jenn or Avery come out to support them both figuratively and financially. So many people helped make both events so successful. It just left me in awe of how lucky we are. This circle of friends, family, and co-workers I have is pretty amazing.
This year for Thanksgiving we celebrated with friends rather than family. We went to the Kruger's for dinner and had a great meal with Devin, Lori, Dayton, Eric and Julianna. We were pretty impressed that we were able to pull off a full, traditional holiday meal without the assistance of "real adults," aka our parents.
Friday night I had a girls night out with Jenn and her mom, Kristie, Jen Curtis and her mom and sister, Brenda and Ashley, and my mom. We had a great dinner on the Plaza. I forgot how crazy the Plaza is at Christmas time. Wow. It took 20 minutes to get from the west side of the plaza to the east side. But, the Plaza is beautiful at this time of year, the dinner was great and the company was excellent so it was all worthwhile!
Saturday we went to Lincoln to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Eginoire side of the family. It was great to see everyone...especially the newest member of the family: Baby Zoe! She's beautiful and perfect and we're all in love. Especially Harper. He's been talking about her all day today.
We put up the Christmas decorations today, so it's officially Christmas at the Pealer household. Harper took a really long nap this afternoon. When he went down we hadn't done much decorating, but when he woke up the garland and lights were up. He stepped out of his room to see the decorated banister and said "woooo! That's beautiful, Mommy!" That reaction and excitement is EXACTLY what is going to make Christmas so fun this year. And I'm going to soak up every second of his awe over the season. He is the most amazing gift we've ever been given and I plan to enjoy him to the fullest.
