Post Thanksgiving.........

The day after Thanksgiving............Black Friday,

we headed to have lunch. 

Then to Home Depot for Christmas Lights...

We got the lights strung on the deck just in the nick of time.

This was the Snow on the deck on Dec 3rd.

I was working from home and was

able to watch it fall.

Love the snow and the lights....

Boyd had the lights on the house early this year...

with no nagging from me......

We are heading to St. George tomorrow.........

where we will be met with snow too...

We like it, those peeps don't.

Thanksgiving 2013.......miscellaneous

Sadly, the blooms from my Christmas Cactus are fallen before Thanksgiving. Last year my Christmas Cactus bloomed before Halloween, so we are making progress.....she is getting the memo about where we are on the calendar...hahaha

Pie, pie, pie, pie and a gallete.................

Mr. Isaac determined to run his first 5K, The Turkey Trot that Cottonwood Heights sponsors.   Grumps and I made a poster and headed over to the finish line so we could cheer him on. He crossed the line with a big old grin..........he said "I got a cramp part way thru, I think I didn't drink enough water!"

This little gal should be hired out on Thanksgiving

to be a prep-chef....

she was amazing and so helpful.

This is the big guy out lowering the turkey into the hot oil.

The smell is yummy............grease and turkey.

Yummy....my tummy is growling. This is alot of work to heat up 5 gallons of oil and fry a turkey breast. It takes hours for the oil to cool, so the clean-up isn't complete until the next day. We look at each other every Friday after the big day and say "how much longer can we do this?"

Sweet Disaster............

We have plans for this little corner of our bedroom.

We have plans for 1/2 of a closet in the hallway.

Mr. Mr. was demo-ing today.................be still my heart

Can it be.........will he get it done?

I will be gone for (3) weeks in January,

I'm hoping he surprises me while I'm away

like he did in the Spring !!

Crazy Gorgeous

I know that I'm a bit nuts......

I love my plants.

I love this Christmas Cactus.

This is an angle from looking down.

This is what it looks like from outside looking in..

just a pretty.

more............

another look................

and another.................

The angle from below...............I'm pathetic,

is there a 12- step program.

I have Bev to thank for this beauty. 

She give me a start years and years ago.

I've given many many starts to others over

the years.......and so it goes.

Let the Games Begin

I dug out the bulbs from under the cubby,

where they have been "resting" since last year. 

I have high hopes for these babies.

I sent one of these to Travis, Aimee, Megan and Harmony. 

They are to plant them the day after Thanksgiving and we should have blooms by Christmas. 

Nothing says Holiday like a big ole' amaryllis.......

good luck peeps, may the greenest thumb win.

Sweets for the Sweet

I had the Lloyd kiddos over last night for a sweet roll...... I started the dough and when they arrived they helped roll, cut, bake and frost. I cheated in the proofing of the rolls,

so from start to eat was 2 hours!!

Woo-Hoo

Veteran's Day.............

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.