My First Big Thanksgiving

We had thanksgiving at my house this year! This is was my first time being the hostess and I was so excited about it. We had Jen's fam, Annette's fam, my parents and Kimi here, so there were 20 of us. We had turkey, red mashed potatoes, sweet sweet sweet potato casserole, broccoli & craisin salad, fruit salad, rolls, olives, cranberry sauce, and pies-- pumpkin, apple, french silk, and banana cream.

I have a lot of fond memories of thankgiving at my grandma's house, so I did whatever I could to make it like that. We had the same big long table in the living room, grandma's famous rolls (I made a practice batch last week so I could get them just right) and my mom made the chocolate pilgrims that we brought to grandma's one year.

Here's the rising rolls

Sweet potatoes, rolls, and turkey #2 in the oven (I ended up with 2 small ones), potatoes on the stove.

Fridge full of pies and broccoli saladEverybody watching Wall-e while waiting to eat

Getting the table set

And digging in!


On friday Kimi mentioned that she had to break a board for her next belt test in her college Tae Kwon Do class, so Jason gave her some pointers and let her practice with his re-breakable boards. THEN we all got to watch while she broke her first real board!

We were so proud.

Politics at Home

So this morning I was cleaning the kids' bathroom. (in case you haven't figured it out already, that's a great way to pass the time while little ones are in the tub.) I happened to be spot cleaning a bit more closely than usual and I came across something.

See it?

No, not my sadly scratched paint or our lovely homemade toilet paper holder. It's those tiny black lines, right there.

Upon closer inspection, I discovered that it was writing! Tiny tiny words written in black pen by one of my children.

It says "Vote for Joshua"


And a couple minutes later, I spotted yet another subliminal billboard.





Josh doesn't know it yet, but he's a republican.

In case you were wondering.