Lauren, Dave, and Kara Work Off Their Thanksgiving Feast

Dave and Kara and I found ourselves with a long free day ahead of us this morning as we sat at the breakfast table, still in our food comas from yesterday.

Since my dad is going into the hospital for a hip replacement on tuesday, we thought it

might be helpful to all of us if we went outside and took care of some of the things that needed to be done. (And since d, k, & I are blessed to not own homes of our own where things like raking leaves need to be dealt with, it was good for us to get a taste of what responsibility is like...)

Of course, there is a limit to the amount of responsibility you should indulge in the day after a holiday, so we had to have a little bit of fun:

After our rough-housing, we were hungry (we successfuly abated our food-coma problem apparently...) so we broke for a lunch made up of turkey sandwiches and other left-over sides. Then, Kara and I tackled the Christmas lights while Dave mowed the lawn.

(I do mean tackle...)

We changed things up a bit from years past, and wrapped the porch to resemble a candy-cane.

We've decided--

we like it!

We also decided we like spending a long free day together, and are finishing it off watching holiday movies with Mom and Dad. Holidays are lovely.