Thanksgiving

We had a pretty good Thanksgiving. Matt & Jeremy were the only ones that traveled into town. Ted & Emily came in for the weekend after.

Grandpa was in the hospital again this year as was the case 2 years ago for Thanksgiving. Which reminds me, this is the 2 year anniversary of my blog. Grandpa is doing fine & home now. We tried to go to SDC Thanksgiving evening. It was too cold for the rides to go so we just walked around & looked at the lights. We raced back to the car, boys walked/ran & girls took the trolley - WE WON, of course.

All pictures are on my myspace - www.myspace.com/queenkira - I believe that the pics are public.

GOOD MORNING AMERICA

I don't know how many of you watch Good Morning America but they are doing a series about top Christmas destinations for families. Well they voted Silver Dollar City as one of those destinations. GMA will be doing their Saturday morning show from SDC December 1.

Why do you care, well part of the broadcast includes a toy drive that benefits Love, Inc. SDC's charitable organization. One of my friends words for SDC and she asked me to help Saturday. So I don't have to fight the crowds but maybe I'll be on GMA!!! The show will air at 7:00 AM central time so watch & see if you can see me.

I will be posting my Thankgiving update later. I am home right now trying to get re motivated to work. Things are slow right now as most of my clients are in the mortgage business and their business is in the toilet.

Brayden is also home sick. Just a little flu I guess. He came home yesterday because he vomited at lunch (sorry Janitor). But no fever. Then last night & today he had a fever.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEREMY

Last weekend was Jeremy's 27th birthday. He came to Missouri to celebrate with me & the boys. Saturday was his actual birthday. So that morning he went golfing with Uncle Phil, Ron and myself. I did not golf - I rode in the cart. I know nothing about golf and have never hit a ball on a golf course. Never even rode in a cart on the golf course. I have putt putt & I suck at it. So this was a new experience. And I wasn't extremely excited about either. I don't mind golf, but I've never been interested in golf & Jeremy & I had decided that that would be "his" thing.

Uncle Phil lives on the 15th hole of the golf course. His house is behind them in this picture. Ron is a friend from Hawaii.

This is me goofing off & Jeremy pondering his swings & putts.

This is us on maybe the 17th or 16th hole, I'm not sure. It was really cold when we first started, we had a 8:00 am T time. By this time it was warming up - some.

This is me on the 18th hole finally hitting the ball. I did actually hit the ball but it went only like 1 yard in front of me to the left. Not a pretty sight. Jeremy did a regular hit & then a Happy Gilmore hit. The Happy Gilmore drive was as good as his regular one!

I enjoyed the golf more than I thought I would. I enjoyed doing it with Jeremy & Uncle Phil. It was more exciting than I thought it would be. Even though I just watched most of the time. The only other thing that I did was rake the sand traps. I spared you the picture of that. And amazingly Jeremy was the only one that landed in the traps, I think this because the only ones that I had to rake were for him.

That evening we went to a Japanese steak house in Springfield called Nakato. Holly & Trevor joined us. We had a good time. Then rented a movie & watched it at home. We were too tired from golf to do much of anything else.

Sunday we went to see the Bee Movie
it was pretty good. The boys enjoyed it more than we did. Like most other cartoons it did address several "issues" that Jeremy & I thought were amusing.

Halloween Recap

First of all - on Oct 30 the electric company had Christmas decorations out!!!

In years past when the boys went trick-or-treating, I would let the boys have 2 pieces a day and week by week I would throw hand fulls of candy away until it was gone. Well Jeremy forbid me to throw any candy away this year. I asked him what about the yucky candy, he informed me that he would be he judge of "yucky" candy. Well surprising this year the boys got a lot of good candy.

Cody did not dress up he just hung out with friends & did some trick-or-treating w/out costume. Brayden was a ninja. His hair lady informed him that ninjas were quiet - I think she doubted that the could fully play the part!

I guess this is the funniest adult costume.

Best adult costume.

Boy at Bray's school that is in a wheel chair was a racecar & driver.

End result.