Thanksgiving Bliss

I am so sad because today is the the last day of my Thanksgiving week off. I had such a restful week of working on Christmas gifts, (sorry mom, won't let it slip this year what I am doing) planning and making our Thanksgiving feast, it truly was a feast this year. I made everything but the stuffing, Seth did that and everything turned out wonderful. Last night Matt and I put the ornaments on our tree and sat back and listened to Christmas music and admired all of our little ornaments.

Thanksgiving feast menu:

perfectly golden turkey

brown sugar baked ham

Boston Market sweet potato casserole-totally yummy!

mom's famous spinach leaf salad

stuffing

corn bread

mashed taters

3 streusel topped pumpkin pies

I even have a picture to prove it. But I can't download it till Matt gets back form St. Louis at the end of the week.

I have already turned over the house from autumn decorations to Christmas decorations. Our neighbor will be putting up our house lights this Thursday for me while Matt is away. They are going to be all over the house for the first time in 2 years. I am sooooo excited for the lights to go up.

I must say that I am so excited for the Christmas season! I love Christmas so much. Matt and I are getting professional photos by a friend of a friend, and I am so excited for them. Matt and I are also flying out to AZ for Christmas and a family reunion on my side of the fam. My Grandma is turning 90 this December so everyone is coming out to celebrate. I haven't seen some of my cousins since our last family trip last year. (Goal for me is to have lost 15 lbs by then.) Oh yeah if you didn't already know, I have a personal trainer kicking my butt 3 days a week right now. I will be healthy by mid next year and down 60 lbs. That is my goal.

That's it for now, pix to come later! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Must Reads!

I have to tell you all about my new fav series of books that come in a close second to the Twilight books. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I read Hunger Games last year just after I finished reading Twilight a few times, I really enjoyed the book. I was upset cause I would have to wait a year for the next book to come out. Catching Fire came out in Sept and I have been waiting for it to be released on Kindle so that I don't have to buy the hardcover book, cause since I have the Kindle I shouldn't need to buy the hardcover. Well it still has yet to be released and Matt let me get the book. I started reading Catching Fire and felt a little lost since it had been a year from reading, so I decided to re-read Hunger Games, and fell in love with it again. I went right into Catching Fire and in about 7 hours I finished the whole thing. AMAZING!!!!! I loved the book better than the first one, and I am mad cause I have to wait another year to read the 3rd and probably final book of the series. So everyone I highly recommend the Hunger Games series. It is a teen book but has some violent attached, as it is a book about kids who fight to the death. It is very good!!!!

Halloween '09

People have been asking for some pix of halloween this year. So here are some pix. Just some info, Matt did not wear his uniform as a costume, he left for his military duty from the party so I got a few pix with him and that is it.

This year we have about 250-300 kids stop by for some candy. We were going straight from 6-9pm with kids. It was a lot of fun. My students had a ton of fun stopping by to say hi. I even had some families that don't participate in Halloween stop by just to see me. It was a lot of fun. So enjoy the pix!