Thanksgiving 2008

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. We enjoyed this holiday at home this year with Uncle Tim. This was my second year making Thanksgiving dinner. I don't think last year counted because I bought the turkey at the Honey Baked Ham Co. And you know what? I think I did a pretty good job, only thing I need to work on was my time management.

The Menu

Spiral Stuffed Turkey Breast with Cider Gravy

Brussel Sprouts w/ Bacon

Macaroni and Cheese

Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Croissant Rolls

Apple Pie

Peanut Butter Pie

After filling up our belly's we went out side and kicked around the soccer ball.

Then it was time for some pie (except for Uncle Tim because he is on a diet). This year Austin and I had a pie contest. I made the Apple and Austin made the Peanut Butter. Both pies were excellent but if one of us won it was Austin. The bottom crust of my pie didn't turn out that great. But for it being my first pie it wasn't that bad.

Here are few picture's through out the day:

Mommy's little helper

I didn't know he could use that

Ready to eat

Uncle Tim

Friday, we took Abigail to her first movie. We decided to go see Bolt. It was a very cute movie (of what I saw, Abigail and I spent a lot of time in the bathroom). I think we will wait sometime before we go again.

It rained both on Saturday and Sunday. We spent all day Saturday inside.

Look at what we did:

Sunday we did ventured out to the mall for some lunch and to let Abigail play on the indoor playground. Poor kid was so excited to leave the house. At the mall we also listened to the singing bears and then we got a peak of you know who "Santa". That was a big mistake. Abigail did not want to leave until we convinced her that we would come back next weekend after finding her a pretty dress, hair cut and we had to write Santa a letter.

When we got home from the mall look who was waiting for us:

One of Santa's elf's. We named him Wish. He is going to report to Santa each evening to let him know if Abigail is naughty or nice.

It's getting cold in South Carolina

I am not sure what happened this past week but I think someone turned the a/c on outside. We are trying to stay warm and keep our belly's full. For some reason when it gets cold you start eating more.

This week we had Thanksgiving lunch with Abigail at her daycare. The ladies there made us a wonderful dinner. We finally got to meet Abigail's friend Colt who she talks about all the time.



Abigail and I made these place mats for our Thanksgiving dinner:

We are still making our Turkey and I hope to share that later this week.

We also made these yummy treats:

Abigail couldn't resist when I was trying to photograph these tasty rice crispy chocolate treats.

Also, these muffins were a winner. And we will be making them again very soon. Even Casey was begging for them. I didn't know that dogs liked pumkin.

Boing, Boing, Boing

OUR WEEK

Monday at school Abigail fell and hurt her head. And of course we had to put a band-aid on her boo boo. Austin and I had bets for how long the band-aid would stay on. The last band-aid was on for three weeks (or more). Finally Uncle Tim had to bribe her with a movie before she let us remove it. Amazingly we were able to remove this band-aid after three day's and it was her decision.

This week was spirit week at school. Here is Abigail wearing her crazy hat:

I finally cleaned out her cubby at school. Abigail was excited because I brought her bathing suite home. She was ready for the beach and some swimming.

Here she is swimming on the living room floor:

Friday night we went to Target to get Graham's present. Abigail of course had to get something so we got her this Little Einstein puzzle.


Saturday off to Greenville to Graham's birthday party at Monkey Joe's. Before we knew it Abigail took off. We went after her and found her already climbing up the first slide with her shoe's in the middle of the floor for all to trip on. She had a great time bouncing and sliding.

At the party she had to sit next to Graham. I think she has a little crush.....

On the way home from the party we tried to listen to the South Carolina and Florida game. That is all I am going to say about that. To comfort us we stopped at Kroger and bought a brownie mix to make. That cheered us up a little.

Sunday was the best day of all. We started off just being lazy. Since it was chilly we all cuddled up in Mommy and Daddy's bed and read some books. After lunch and some shopping it was craft time.

Here is some of our artist latest work:

I almost forgot we had to ban toilet paper in Abby's bathroom.

Fall fun

Welcome!! Since everyone seems to be blogging I decided that I would give it a shot.

I thought this would be a good way for the family to see what we have been up to because we all live so far apart.

Last month we kept busy by taking a hike down at Riverfront Park here in Columbia. Such a fun place to take the little one and the dog.

We went on a haunted hayride at Harmon's Tree Farm in Lexington.

Abigail was such a cute witch for Halloween.

Went to Chimney Rock NC to see a little fall foliage.

Here are a few shot's of Abigail just having fun this month that I would like to share:

This weekend we haven't been up to much except for watching South Carolina beat Arkansas at a local wings restaurant and then off to the Playground (Abigail's favorite).

Hope everyone enjoys this.

A