Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everybody's Thanksgiving was full of turkey and pie! My Uncle Fred and Aunt Carla and cousins Erin, Patrick and Jonathan came over to our house this year for dinner. We had so much food that the table didn't have a single space left for anymore dishes! I took pictures of the full table and then the opening of the party crackers, complete with paper crown, really bad jokes and a surprise! We ate our traditional dinner of turkey and spaghetti and then collapsed into the living room. I got to try out Mario Kart on Wii and didn't do too badly, though I over-corrected a lot which resulted in me driving off the course into lava, or a canyon, or space where I burned up on re-entry. It was a good time! And now time to take down the Thanksgiving decorations and get the Christmas ones up!!

The tale of Edward the Chicken...

So if you don't already know I am totally obsessed with Twilight, the book series by Stephenie Meyer. And I managed to get my Mom hooked on them as well. So this last August she hatched her own chickens using an incubator and has been letting them grow up on the "safe" side of the chicken coop. Well since we grew these ourselves the chance of getting more than a couple of roosters was high. We already have two roosters that live with their own ladies in separate chicken runs and we really can't afford to have any more cause they will eventually start fighting with each other. The baby chicks (which are almost full size now) seem to have three roosters in their bunch. We managed to give away one rooster, but we still have the other two. So one of the baby roosters is a Leghorn/Araucana mix and my Mom thinks he is gorgeous. She had just read the first book when she saw this rooster crowing and thought, "Wow that is one beautiful rooster...must be an Edward." For those of you who don't know, Edward is the main male character in these books and is described as your own personal Greek god. So my Mom now has a rooster named Edward. Also once she names any of the chickens it makes it really hard for her to give it away.

On another topic, we recently decided to replace the floor in the parlor with a hardwood laminate. After ripping out the old carpet, removing the 30 or so pictures and paintings from the walls, and repainting the room we found out that the laminate we bought was going to be nearly impossible for us to install. We are planning on having family over for Thanksgiving and most of the furniture for that room was in the dining room. So we called Home Depot and got an installer. We were thinking it wasn't going to be able to be finished until after Thanksgiving, but the guy was in between jobs and when he saw how far along the room was already he said the only day he'd be able to do it was Monday. Hurray! We are both off on Mondays!! So yesterday our new floor was installed and the dining room will be fit to have guests soon. Enjoy the pics!

I love vampires...

So I know that I am a big time obsesser, and recently it's been about the Twilight book series by Stephenie Meyer. I literaly ran up to the mailbox today after I saw the mail lady drop it off to get my new Entertainment Weekly cause I knew that the movie was gracing the cover. And it's not just the movie or the books that get me thinking about vampires. The other day I was listening to the radio while I was at work and the song Bleeding Love was on. I was really listening to the lyrics and it totally made me think how the song could be from Edward's own lips. And then on the way home a guy passed me going like 70 in a 40 zone and I turned to Mom and said "Probably a vampire." Yep. Completely obsessed. On a note not about vampires at all, my best friend Nicole called me today to tell me she's pregnant! I am soooo excited and now I have a real reason to be pouring over baby stuff in catalogs! ;)

Happy (late) Halloween!

So after working on Halloween (which was fabulous cause nobody wanted to go to the hospital that day), Mom and I came home and did as many things as we could. It was like we had a schedule...now you must carve pumpkins...now you must make donuts...now you must dress the dogs in costume... Anyways we packed it in. And then only made it through half of Hocus Pocus before we passed out. But it was great! Note the pictures of cute doggies in costume. Ariel was supposed to be a princess this year, but she liked her ladybug costume from last year better. Toby was a clown in the beginning and then we put his pumpkin costume on him and he enjoyed running around in that. I was a complete geek and went as a plague victim to work. Hehehe. I made myself a bubo and black fingertips, cause that's what the Black Death looked like. My other nerdy co-workers and I came up with all sorts of bacterial Halloween costumes. Most are too disgusting to write in my blog, but anyways. So I hope all of you had a super Halloween!