Who's the luckiest one of them all?

Getting ready to pull the wishbone!!
Photobomb by dad.





And we have a winner


Happy face!


No face. Booo Angie didn't win this year.


(I personally think she's. Winner daily as she's now a pseudo only child! Wait until she sees what the new year will bring!)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving dinner was a wonderful HUGE meal!! It was turkey, ham, stuffing and ALL the fixings. We had Sally's neighbors over for dinner as well.


We opted for "grey" Thursday and went to Kmart @ 8pm Thanksgiving night. We picked up a few good finds to include some surprises.

At midnight we headed over to Kohl's along with hundreds of others going there for boots.... 100's of folks going up non-functioning escalators. Fun, fun, fun. Not. Here is the line in front if us winding around the building and another half a building! Lots of people HOWEVER the folks at the door who worked Kohl's would tell you where in the store the item you wanted would be located in the store. Sweet!! I knew exactly where I was going when I went in. It worked out well.


And the line behind as well. Almost to the road. Wow!!


The only part about the night that bugged me was the lady (I use that term VERY loosely) was an idiot. The store workers came to the back of the line to let us know they were out of TVs that were to door buster. The gal first asked what they were giving away. Hello? Nothing is free @ these things. Then when she heard they gave all the vouchers out she complained they should have done them randomly through the line - hello? First come first served. Get here EARLY for the good stuff fool. I think we could have gotten in line when we got here and gotten one, however it wasn't what we were there for...

Kohl's was something simile with some younger women asking what everyone was in line for.... Hello. Same thing you will be when you get to the back of the line, I'm sure!!

One gal was cutting in line and got an earful from me. Cut behind me if they'll put up with it, but not in from if me fool! Goodness. Stupid people show up just as it opens and cut the line by half? Give me a break. Stand in line like he rest of us!

We got home and in bed by 3am and didn't do the early morning thing in Black Friday.

That's not to say that we didn't go out on Friday, we did. We went to Lowes and Home Depot to look at trees then to Office Depot for odds and ends. Then Joanna's fabrics later that night. Fun, fun, fun. I did find what I had in mind for the outdoor chairs. Score!!

So that's what we did this weekend for Thanksgiving. What did you do?

Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving could have been MUCH longer and made us all much happier, however, we're still eating Ham and Turkey - what's not to love there?  Yum!  I was the cook this year, with a lot of help from Angela.  She has turned out to be quite the helper and a good hand in the kitchen as well.  She helped inject Mr. Tom and get him all set with some Cajun season and everything - she loved it. 
Our menu this year was: Turkey (roasted), stuffing, gravy, Ham, Sweet Potato souffle (thanks Sue Brumbaugh!), Mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, rolls, strawberry jello salad and of course the olives and pickles.  Can't forget the pickles and olives!

Sally was able to join us from Florida and Mom and Dad came over for the feast as well.

The table all set and ready to go with extra room added on to get everyone in!

 Sally Making the gravy!

 Of course we have to have three shots to get everyone in... I should have just photo shopped me in from the next picture (picking the best of course - ha!)

Think Angela is tired of getting her picture taken?  ha!

 The aftermath!  Look at the turkey - all picked clean - oink!  Kidding, my favorite part is to pick the turkey, so while we were all digesting, that's just what I did - I sat there and picked the turkey clean :D

After a little more digesting, we broke out the "Push the Dummy" and finished off the night with a piece of carrot cake, pecan pie or Pumpkin pie - your choice!

Angela even left a lot of turkeys outside for us too :)