The boys and I just got home earlier this evening from spending a few fun-filled days visiting wth family for the Thanksgiving holiday.

We had left Tuesday afternoon for my sis-in-law’s house and spent the night there. Then early Wednesday afternoon we headed down to GV to visit our families. ‘J’ is still in the academy (he’s been there since late September), so he couldn’t go with us. We got to my parents house later that afternoon. The boys pretty much attacked their aunt and uncle…lol. I visited with them (my bro and sis) and my mom. Later that evening I took a quick trip with my dad to KMart, giving me a chance to visit with him some.
Later, my bro and I stayed up til 3:30am visiting and playing on the computer…that was interesting, and yet fun…lol.

And now turkey day. Got up earlier than is normal for me…lol…but I knew there were goodies to be eaten. My mom always makes a bunch of stuff for the holidays. For breakfast was caramelized pull-apart bread and chocolate-chip bespeckled cinnamon rolls…mmmm. Then lunch was crackers, dips, and many other little hors-de-vours. My other bro and my future sis-in-law showed up around lunchtime. We hung out and visited and had a good time. My other brother and my sis-in-law and her neice showed up right before dinner…with my car. Well, not my car, but the one I want…a Jeep Liberty. She showed it to me…and ahh, I want one so bad. And my last bro and his girlfriend and little girl showed up a few minutes later. We then dug into a feast of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, greenbean cassarole, and many other dishes.

We all had a great time visiting before everyone started getting tired and went home. But not before a buffet of desserts was laid out for the picking…cookies, candies, pies…the works. Yummy! And I got a huge platter I brought home with me.

My sis-in-law picked the boys and I up today and we headed for home. We all had a great time and the boys loved seeing their grandparents and aunts and uncles. And we get to do it all again in a few weeks when Christmas rolls along….yay!

We got our first snow of the season yesterday! It started snowing just before 2:30 am on Saturday and was still snowing when I got out of bed at quarter to 10 Saturday morning. It snowed on an off til later in the afternoon, then the clouds broke up and cleared off…to make for a very cold evening. We got about 2-3 inches total. The boys enjoyed bundling up and playing out in the snow…and the dogs loved runnning around and playing it in as well. The weather forecast said rain/snow…so I didn’t expect to get a couple inches…but it’s great, I love the snow! And we’re supposed to get more snow as another storm moves in the beginning of the week. Yay!

Ok, so I’m a bit late, but we had a great Samhain. I baked a few goodies (jalapino popper fingers…mmmm, banana bread and chocolate frosted brownies) and when my sis-in-law Crystal and our friend Kristine got here with their boys we all got dressed up and went out trick-or-treating. We had a ren/medieval theme going…with the exception of my youngest, who was Stitch from Lilo And Stitch.  As soon as I get pics developed (yeah, I don’t have one of those nifty digital cameras yet), I’ll post them. It was cold, so two blocks pretty much did us in…and by that time the boys were ready to go home and divulge in their mass of candy.

Later on, after the gals and their kiddos left, I sat down to watch a couple scary movies. I found Halloween on tv, so watched the last half of it (with my 10 year old saying it’s not scary and me saying it’s a classic) and then turned off all the lights, hunkered down and put on Stephen King’s Storm Of The Century. I had forgotten how long that movie was…so about 4:30 in the morning I finally got to bed.

Since the 31st was pretty much the boys time, I lit a candle and incense and honored the gods, spirits, and ancestors the next evening.