Thanksgiving Day

This year we had dinner at my parents so I was only in charge of dessert. It was much nicer than doing the whole sha-bang. I made 2 apple pies, 2 pumpkin pies, and the required chocolate mousse pie with graham cracker crust.

I spent most of Wednesday, tackling a couple errands, chatting on IM, and trying to make pies. I made some pretty rookie mistakes-even though I had made pies before :( And I didn't realize how basic making apple pie was. I bought pillsbury roll out pie crusts and they turned out great and easy. And I borrowed my moms apple peeler/slicer/corer contraption. I need to get me one of those. They just make eating apples more fun! Anyway, it was pretty simple. And Jon said he thinks it was his favorite apple pie. I took his mom's recipe, my mom's recipe, and one from the Martha Stewart website, and did a little of all of them. And all the amounts were estimates.

On Thursday, Jon made a trip to the gym, while I made cinnamon pull apart bread. Then we picked up Dave and after breakfast headed to a movie. That is my parents' family tradition. A movie on Thanksgiving day. We went and saw "Planet 51". It was pretty fun. It was Max's first movie theater experience. He did pretty well. He sat with Adam most of the time. The last 15 mins or so he got bored. Luckily, my mom still had some popcorn and I brought some Halloween candy. That kept his attention.



Zac wanted to go home and watch the movie again :)

Yum, good food! The last few years I have made an effort to not stuff myself so there would be room for pie and so my plate would fit all the dishes. This year, that went out the window. I was soo full-uncomfortably so.






The boys hanging out while we let the food settle.





Then we cleaned up, looked at ads for Black Friday to make a plan ;), watched "Elf", played outside, and some slept. Then we played a 7 player game called "Shadows Over Camelot". It was pretty fun. A 7 player game where we are all the good guys, playing against Evil, which is the deck of cards. Then we had pie. And headed home. Pretty good day :)

After getting the boys in bed, Jon was packing up for his camping trip, and I was looking over the ads that I "wanted" to hit the next morning. ("Wanted" is in quote because, I can't think of a more accurate word. Whats between "wanting" and "not wanting"?) I noticed Toys r' us opened at Midnight. Since it was 11:45, I decided I would head over and see what it was like, just drive by. . . .

Wall Hangings

I love this fabric! And these wall hangings.


Perfect for a little girl's room


These are in my house and I love them!


My parents are in a Boutique next week and the next week. And you can get items similar to this.

I will post more details soon.

Like Butta'

My darling Husband, got my subliminal messages (the word "knife" texted everytime I made dinner).

Early last week as we were about to sit down to dinner, there was a knock on the door. It was the UPS man! I was pretty confused. What did we order?

I was thrilled to see these in the box!!




These knives are amazing! After reading all the reviews, Jon picked the perfect set! And when I first used them I was shocked at how smooth, clean, and easy they cut-like butta'!! I had a perma-grin, over knives! Seriously though, you don't know what your missing til you try good knives.

Thanks Honey, its so much easier to make dinner now. No more carrots flying across the counter as I chop them.

Max

I am sitting here getting the rest of my primary lesson ready, trying to hurry so I can get in the shower and to the church in 45 mins, Jon is walking out the door to do Teacher pick ups and will be back in about 15 mins. Max starts crying because Jon leaves, I am busy with my lesson, but hear Zac talking to Max like we do when Zac is throwing a fit. Zac says, "what are you doing Max? why are you crying?" Then 5 mins later, I am walking to the back and I notice Max has put himself in time out-I presume for "throwing a fit". Because he knows that is what happens with Zac throws a fit. But he was not throwing a fit, just crying. So funny, and cute, and sad, I suppose. Well, I just killed 5 more mins of getting ready time. Have a good Sunday!

Chipped

Max was trying to climb over Zac, who was laying in the hall, when he tripped and hit his mouth on the tile. He was crying pretty hard and I could tell he was in pain and had his hand to his mouth. When I looked at his mouth I was just looking for blood or cuts, and didn't see any. He stopped crying after a minute and wanted to play again. So I didn't think it was a big deal.

Then next morning when I was getting him ready, I noticed this:

(Notice the 2 pink scars to the lower left of his chin? The corner of our TV stand cut him while he was trying to shimmy by. He has also cut his bottom lip countless times. He is pretty clumsy and brave . . . not a good combination!)

He chipped his tooth. We went to the dentist to smooth out the sharp point. Luckily, it was less than a minute. Max was pretty freaked out. But he was very happy to get his prize.

Wrestling Around

I love this!! It is so cute! (but only for so long huh?)

Go Max!

Fall Leaves

Where's Zac


Smashing the leaves down