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Gobble, Gobble

Happy Thanksgiving! Every other year we switch off who's side of the family we have Thanksgiving with. I really like this plan, it cuts out having to jump from house to house and we spend the day relaxing with family rather then traveling. This year we spent Thanksgiving with my side of the family at my parents house. I must say that my mom is an incredible cook so Thanksgiving at her house is always delicious. My food assignment is always the same, sweet potatoes. I now rock at making them.
In my family we have a joke that your food assignment is always based on how well you cook and you only move up to something harder to make once my mom trusts you with it. I started, like everyone else at one point, with the drink, then up to jello, up again to relish tray, and I have now been stuck on the sweet potato level for years. I'm trying not to take it personally and to be proud of myself for graduating to the sweet potato level, which hasn't been easy.

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the McCubbins and Hoovers (my moms sisters families). After dinner we played Charades, which was suppose to be a joke on my mom, by my dad since he was in charge of the family game. All the slips we were to act out all said "This is a joke on Terri, act out whatever you want and hand the slip back to me." We played several rounds before she found out, she was a good sport about it all.

I'm so thankful for my darling family, all of them. I love them to pieces and couldn't imagine life without them! Especially my parents, I truly lucked out getting them (they lucked out getting me as well) just kidding, but I do love them more then I would ever be able to let them know. My dad carving the turkey.

Aunt Georgie really happy to be mashing potatoes.

The kid table

Carter making us all jam to Brittney Spears, "Oops I Did It Again", and "I Would Walk Five Hundred Miles"....

My mom after she found out the game was a joke on her....Let's get a closer look...

Macy and Papa playing Catch Phrase.

ADDICTIONS

We all have addictions, some worse then others, but they're there. I have a shopping and returning addiction, Macy has a Dora addiction, Raegan has a birthday party addiction. We have multiple "birthday parties" set up around the house daily. Kurt has a sport addiction. More specifically, a football addiction. I loose him every winter to NFL.
I'm not going to lie and pretend that it doesn't bug me, because it does, but I've come to the conclusion throughout the years that it will never change, and our family will continue to be ignored (not purposely) during football season. Kurt has football on continually, and not only does he watch every game, he watches Sports Center, PTI, and all those other awesome sport shows all night long.

I have tried to embrace it, learn the game, and watch it, but I find it horribly boring and I just can't do it, it's like asking Kurt to scrapbook, or watch Dancing With the Stars. He doesn't want to do those things, just like I don't want to watch a bunch of men line up and crash into each other, only to have to stop, set up, and do it all over again. I hate it.

To all you other wives who's husbands suffer with sports addiction, I feel your pain! I understand what you're going through! It's rough and we've got to stick together in these fantasy football, BYU, NFL crazy times. WE CAN DO IT!! WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS!!

In my self pitying in the past, I've decided to be grateful that he has a sports addiction. There are so many other more horrible, terrible, no good, addictions out there and I should be glad that Kurt is addicted to sports and sports talk rather then any of those other things. So, although I don't always love hearing crowds cheering, and announcers talking throughout my house all day on Sunday, I'm glad he's here and not at the bar.

You'll Never Convince Me That These Aren't the Cutest Bugs Ever.

I have so many Halloween pictures, it's ridiculous. So I had to choose a choice few. I was feeling it this year and was excited to make my girls these Halloween costumes. Raegan wasn't convinced at first that this was the way to go. In fact, she changed her mind several different times of what she wanted to be this year, but once she saw Macy's ladybug tutu she wanted one, so we made her a butterfly and she couldn't have been happier. She also got to wear it to school and to dance. It was fun to be able to pick out colors and ribbons for these costumes.

Of course my girls loved trick-or-treating, they stayed out until I called Kurt and told him it was probably time for our little ones to get out of the rain, and hit the sack. The girls were also lucky enough to have their cousin Cooper join them trick-or-treating. Macy and Cooper get along so great, and Raegan would just love to be the mom of them both. They scored enough candy to last them until next Halloween, I'm just glad that their still young enough to be oblivious to what candy bars I've stolen out of their treat buckets.

Here's our cute kids ready to beg for treats!

Macy giving her pumpkin a smooch.Raegan was overly excited to clean her pumpkin out until she touched the guts...and the guts got on her hands...

no more pumpkin carving for Raegan. I had to take over her pumpkin while she managed.Here's her finished Cinderella pumpkin. Raegan was cracking me up because she was making her pumpkin talk. This was the conversation she had with Cinderella...

Raegan, "Oh hi Cinderella, my name is Raegan and this is my little sister Macy and this is my mom."

Cinderella voice by Raegan, "Oh hi, it's so nice to meet you. I don't have any arms! Why didn't you carve me any arms?"

This was my Halloween costume for Bunco, I know, I know, really creative. I should have made myself a tutu and been some sort of bug.