The More we get Together The Happier We'll Be

Last year at Thanksgiving I sat around in our apartment dreaming up plans for when we would have a house and could actually host the festivities. I printed me a copy of Tip Junkie’s Thanksgiving checklist and have been planning ever since. And I have to say that it turned out wonderfully.
After deciding to make the front room into a dining room, I started looking for a table. I’ll tell more about that saga another time, but for now I’ll say that I told The Professor on Monday that I was ready to give up. But miraculously on Wednesday morning we were heading out to pick up this table. And I couldn’t have planned it better on purpose:

I just have to mention the salt and pepper shakers. Most of the ideas were gleaned from various blogs, but my salt shaker broke last minute and I couldn’t find one I liked {or liked paying for} and while I was at Walmart to get all the stuff for the turkey{s} I had an epiphany about how to use the cheap-o salt and pepper shakers--just cover them with festive paper. It worked perfectly.

We had two tables in order to fit everyone, plus the kids table. We almost couldn’t get them to eat, they were so focused on coloring.

We had a wonderful dinner; everyone brought great food. I will post more about the food later too. {I found some excellent recipes.} After dinner/before the pies we had turkey races and then watched Napoleon Dynamite. Good times.


As is usually the case with me, I realized after the fact that I was too caught up in what was going on to remember to take pictures, but here is a shot of two cute cousins gearing up for Black Friday.

The other picture I should have taken was of all the dishes covering the counters afterwards! It took a couple of loads in the dishwasher to clean up after twenty people…

Entertainment

I'm sure I'll get around to seeing New Moon. It won't, however, be very soon. No waiting in lines for me. I saw Twilight on video. Well, I watched it once and fell asleep. {Have I told you about me and falling asleep during movies??} BUT, in my defense {for those of my friends who are suddenly re-evaluating their friendship with me} I did watch the rest of it the next night to see what happened, which I don't usually do. And yes, that means, for those of you without any deductive reasoning skills that I have not read the books... {I'm a s.l.o.w. reader and those are big honking books!} Okay, so have you seen this one??

I am SO making these

I just saw these on this blog. I am adding them to my TO DO list.

Oh, and to clarify a little: I made those hair bows for Easy as part of my ongoing effort to get her to let me do her hair. It's a battle nearly every morning with the shrieking and the escape attempts. Having something beautiful and fancy helps my chances ... a little.

Recently she slept over at her cousins house. So after Auntie made her sit down and get her hair brushed in the morning she actually told her, "You're not as nice as I thought you were." I guess that makes me feel a little better, since I'm not the only one.

he's baaaack

Do you notice anything wierd about our pumpkins? It's probably hard to see in this picture.This is the view of the back of the Mr Potato Head pumpkin: No, this was not the work of a human. Remember our squirrel friend?? Well, he decided to come back and work on our pumpkins. See the little piles of bits of pumpkin shell on the steps? I think he was going for the seeds inside.

We are going to have one fat squirrel, come springtime.