Thanksgiving Week is always shared with Andrew's birthday in our household. This year he turned 12! Yikes, he's going to Young Men's now and an official Boy Scout! For his birthday, he received a whole new Sunday Attire ensemble--Suit, Shoes, Belt, Shirt, and tie. So for his Deacon ordination on Sunday the 30th, he was all spiffed up!
Few in the Hamm house like cake for their birthdays. Andrew had Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake for his this year. It was a trio of Dulce de Leche Caramel, Godiva Chocolate, and White Chocolate Rasperry Truffle! Yum!!!! It was perfect, 12 slices that housed 12 candles.
A fun thing about turning twelve is you actually get to light your own candles. What is it about boys and flames?
After they're lit your family sings you "Happy Birthday" in horribly out of tune voices and then you quickly blow out the candles. It's a ritual performed yearly that only lasts a few minutes, but what would a birthday be without it? 
The day after Thanksgiving we went to get our Christmas tree, all 10.5 feet of it. It's quite wide too, we put seven strings of lights on it, each with 150 lights a piece. And we didn't over do it!!! We still haven't finished the decorating of it. Oh, we usually take the truck to get the tree but it decided not to start that morning, so we took the van. It looked kind of comical...just like it needed a big red bow on top.
