T is for Turkey

I'm still catching up on my blogs, so I guess better do this one before Christmas is here :)

We did Thanksgiving at our house again... I think it's like the 5th year or so. We started having T-day at our home when we bought the last house (hm, that means this is probably the 6th). And it went fabulously at the new place.

I make the turkey and the stuffing usually, and others bring the rest. This year I kinda made everything but dessert. I tried out a new dressing recipe this year... in the Crock Pot! It was delicious if I do say so myself :) And it saved a ton of room in the oven. Room needed for potatoes (sweet and regular), green bean casserole, rolls and the bird. We also had a salad with dried cranberries, walnuts and mandarin oranges. It was WAY too much food, but we managed it ok :)

My parents, my sister, Jason's mom and aunt, and his grandparents all came. We watched our traditional TV shows, the dog show and football. Then that afternoon Emily and Mom helped me decorate the Christmas tree. I didn't get to go to any Black Friday sales this year due to having to work, but Jason made it.

On Friday evening, Emily, Eileen, Jason and I went out to Austin's Long Center to see Cirque Dreams: A Jungle Fantasy. If you've ever seen a Cirque de Soile show this is Broadway's version. It was awesome and we had great seats in the 4th row, actually almost too close. These people are amazing what they can do. My favorite parts were the contortionists and the aerialists. Also these guys who balanced together on a board atop a cylinder... atop 4 other cylinders going opposite ways. One girl swung around by her hair... don't know about that one, ouch.

I'm still catching up... so expect to see some more back dated blogs :)

"It has been my observation that people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

Home Improvements Fall Edition

So far this fall we didn't do much as far as home improvements on our new house, but we hadn't really planned on it, and really haven't had time.


The focus has been the dinnnig room. There is a large wall in there that we are going to have black and white photos on, so for paint color, I wanted to have a grey or silvery. As we all know, the piant never quite looks the same on the wall as it does on the chip. Once it got up there and dried it turned out to be more blue then silver.


I really like the color, but I had bought burnt orange curtains, and there's no way orange and grey-blue go together. So I had to completely scrap that idea. Instead I'm going to stick with the black and white accents. I've got new curtains, but we'll have to wait until the Christmas tree is moved to put them up.



We also finished out the attic floor and now we have tons more storage! I love having an attic handy in the house. Our last home had a 2 foot square in the garage for attic access and once you were up there were too many beams to move around. I have too much stuff, I'm aware of this, but I'm not getting rid of the holiday decorations any time soon, so they have to go somewhere...



I'm hoping the spring provides us with more time to work on the house some more, because the winter is already busy. Check back then :)






I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the loactions that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down. -Mitch Hedberg