The coloring book...

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Our untraditionally traditional Thanksgiving meal actually was turkey this year. Usually we don't eat turkey because, to Mommy's frustration Daddy sometimes just likes to be weird (we were very close to going out for Chinese food this year which Mommy was OK with...) but work bought fresh turkeys for all the employees as a surprise and we had an over abundance of "free" bird in the freezer from Freed Myers.

We received a package from amazon a week or so ago and they did a lousy job of boxing it up. Marshall could see a drawing of Yoda and a light saber inside and he got all excited that it was a gift for him. We had to tell him it was a coloring book to cool his jets.On Thanksgiving day we asked him if he wanted his birthday coloring book so he could work on it during the break from school. I could tell he was a bit disappointed when he said "Sure...". I have never seen him so excited though when we brought it out. The boy played this video game for hours and was sore because it makes him wave a light saber around like a wild man. Even Mommy and Daddy play it and it really is fun.

 We visited a neighbor in the hospital on black Friday and the girls found a fish tank with Nemo in it....It actually had almost all the same fish as was in the dentists office tank in the movie including the puffer fish...

Had a surprise on Saturday morning...

 The rain turned to snow and everything wet froze solid. Sunday morning we couldn't open the van doors but we didn't know that because all day the kids broke out the winter gear and played in the back yard.

Eleanore finally took her first steps...

Food of the week: Too many things to mention...but Daddy's kettle corn on the outside burner ranked pretty high for the family.
Movie of the week: The Giver (Mommy and Daddy give it 3 stars), Earnest Saves Christmas, (our goofy kids loved it), and An American Tail (Millie loves singing the start to the Somewhere Out There song now).
Book of the week: Mommy and Daddy stayed up really late one night and read Darth Paper Strikes Back: An Origami Yoda Book by Tom Angleberger.