We give Thanks........

It's been a while since I posted and I am long overdue for a Thanksgiving post.


As with years past we spent Thanksgiving in Florida (St Augustine to be exact) with the Sutton side of our little clan............and with all the extended "family", family because really after so many years (for the Sutton family) and even for the 10 years I have been part of this celebration, those "friends" are really family.


Of course we drove down on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving,it's a long drive but in the end it's worth it.

This is the scenery from our road trip (so many views I wanted to photograph but my camera can only capture so much)

We drove all day from morning.......

'till night.....

Hurry daddy, we're almost there......

When we got there we were welcomed by the entire clan (well almost............ the rest will come tommorow for the TURKEY day!)

We were put right to work finishing up desserts for the big day (with pumpkin of course), see my boys and Aunt Stephanie and Aunt Tina..........

We spent the rest of the weekend celebrating , talking, running and goofing off. We had a awsome time .

The men enjoyed "manly" activities like FRYING the turkey..........

And after that well the rest of us had a great dinner (of course the best part was the company)



I leave you with a few pictures (because a picture is worth a thousand words, and I've got tons of pictures). I made a slide show using http://www.smilebox.com/. It has a few ads (I am just trying it out)

Well needless to say we had a great time, great company and yummy food. It's always great to see everyone.......... and WE GIVE THANKS.


We stayed an extra day (we had some profesional pictures taken) then we went to see Escape to Africa at the IMAX. Awsome (need I say more)

Then of course it was time to say goodbye and head home




Yeah it was a LONNNNNNNGGGGG! drive home.
Hope you had a wonderful Thankgiving (we really did!)
Thanks!

Making things.............

Sorry I couldn't think of a snappier title and since this is just a tiny post before we start packing and heading out the door to celebrate Thanksgiving.

We decided to make a theme for Thanksgiving "We're NUTS about Thanksgiving" (saw it on another blog) and for this we made "nut" inspired stuff I printed out mazes and coloring pages with squirrels,nuts and of course Thanksgiving related too! and the cover of the booklet was of course "We're nuts about you this Thanksgiving"and we also made cookies..................


Yep you guessed it"NUTS" in this case acorns (again another blog inspired endevour).Wemade sugar cookies (shaped like acorns) dipped in chocolate and covered in nuts and we also made some with vanilla wafers and chocolate kisses.


Look at them getting along so well ....................and being great helpers.

Look at Robert, so concentrated. He is counting how many kisses he has and how many Patrick has.....making sure they both make the same amount.

Look at my proud "baker"

The boys loved helping me "bake"and I think our end product ended up pretty cute. I only took pictures of our second choice (well because they were WAY cuter........................)

Well gotta go,packing need to be finished . Check back soon.

We've got something new.....

Today is veterans day and the boys had the day off (I would like to say we did something patriotic but .......well we didn't) but I do have to say I am extremely grateful for all of those who have served and serve now and for those who did not return, my heart goes out to their families. We support our troops and we want them home....................

First thing in the morning the boys and I put together this really cool set of (cardboard boxes) bricks and they had fun building all sorts of stuff ,I only got a chance to take pictures of one of their creations before it was destroyed by enemy fire, haha (yeah it's old fashioned but they love it, and it doesn't plug in :)) WOW!

After that we had a very,very busy day.Robert had a Dr appt (nothing serious, just a dermatologist), the boys got haircuts (desperately needed them) then we went to get a mattress (I tell you more on why later), we ate out at McDonalds, went to get fixings for dinner............OY we got lots done

When we got home daddy was here (we were having out satellite TV installed) and our washing machine fixed (long story, we are not satisfied with the charges, the tech did nothing............)

But the most important thing we did was......................

putting together the boys BUNKBEDS!!!!!! They arrived today and we wasted no time in setting them up and testing them out too!

They loved their camo (or GI joe) comforters...............

Even daddy tested them out................

Good Night!

Thank you abuelito and abuelita for this fabulous addition to our new home. We love you !

That's all I have today. I hope you had a great day ......................

Thinking Christmas thoughts......

I know , I know it's way to early to be thinking Christmas but I can't help it.....it's in the stores, on TV , online.............
I figured I would go ahead and jump on the Christmas wagon as well.............check out my countdown calendar and start preparing...................

Later

DID YOU VOTE?

Robert had a 2 hr delay this morning (meaning his school started @ 10:45am instead of 8:45am) so me and the boys headed out to our polling station (in Raleigh, we haven't registered for our new address so we went to Raleigh to vote)

The weather was cold and rainy but we just jumped out and ran in....

The boys stood by me and made sure I filled out all the spots............Robert has been studying elections and politics at school so he was pretty interested.

Robert took this picture, they were sitting under me, waiting while I filled out my ballot.

This is what I could see while I voted.....to cuties smiling at me. Not a worry in the world afterwards they both got their I voted stickers and we all left proud of what "WE" did.

Me? Well all I can say is I VOTED! because I can, should and because I think it's important for the boys to know it's our right as AMERICANS!

I hope you voted because todaay....... we make history (no matter who you voted for)

Talk soon

Want some pumpkin pie?

I almost forgot to post I decided (in the middle of the caos that is the house, FULL of boxes) to make Pumpkin pie (I know crazy eh?)
See that picture (what? you didn't think I was making it from scratch,did you?) well that's my lineup to make pumpkin pie......

I must say it was the first time making pie , buy it was easy because I had a "little help".

My little mixer , see the concentration on his face?


Almost done mommy, lets put in in the oven

First pie in my NEW oven

Ooops I forgot to take a picture of the pie before my monsters gobbled it up (can you tell they liked it............)

Maybe next time I will make it from scratch, maybe?

Talk to you later