Renaissance Festival, School Moments, and Random

Ok, are you ready for ten billion pictures? Well tough, there isn't that many but there are a lot! Sorry it's been awhile, I remain insanely busy with school and trying to get stuff done for this huge Christmas program which is next week. It will be Mckenzie's first stage debut so everyone is invited to come see her. My class and I did the majority of sets, decorations, and props for it and I will be running the backstage crew as well. Needless to say that the stress level is very high! But we did get a nice break from things this wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. We hosted dinner at our house and had a ton of food. (Pictures to come of that and our Christmas decorations) It's so nice to have a house to put lights on and decorate with a fireplace. We have our tree up and decorated, it is huge. I'm pretty sure it was the fattest one on the lot! We did just a tiny bit of black Friday shopping and rolled out of bed at a lovely 8am just to get a few good bargains. Then on Saturday we went to the Texas Renaissance festival which is totally awesome and I'm pretty sure I could live there. It was sad that we didn't dress up though because I had trouble ordering my dress online and ending up just not getting it, but next year we are going all out and bringing lots of money because I could have bought the place out! Mckenzie loved it too, she was amazed with so many princesses and fairies walking around. Paul went pretty crazy with all the armor and weapon shops too. I highly recommend going to one of these if you have never been!

This is my little celtic necklace I got.

My handcarved wooden jewelry box

Mckenzie and her pewter fairy which she just loves.

Paul got a coat of arms of our family from Ireland with the whole history and meaning of our name which is super cool.

This was a cool tree man walking around.

A cute matching couple.

Mckenzie and a mermaid statue.

A guy in the woods playing a harp.

A big fairy lady.

Paul and Mckenzie watching the "stupid jugglers" who reminded us of my brother Andrew. I could see him doing this.

A cool elf man.

Paul and Mckenzie riding an elephant. This was the highlight of Kenzie's day.

This was my favorite store, but the tapestries were so expensive.

Riding the carousel.

Mckenzie watching the birds and eating a pretzel.

The joust.

Relaxing at the joust.

My little elves hard at work making Christmas decorations.

Antique suitcases I'm making for the show.

Boxes of decorations and ornaments.

My room, such a mess.

My 3rd graders and the Turkeys we made of Thanksgiving.