Thanksgiving 2009

The Holidays are here!  We kicked off Thanksgiving day with the Macy's Parade!  Charlotte loved it!  After a while I got started cooking in the kitchen, and Charlotte would run in to tell me what was going on in the parade... "Momma!!!  It's Chari BOWN (Charlie Brown)!!" ... or.. "MOMMA!!  It's Mickey, It's Mickey!  YEAH!"  Sooo cute!

For dinner, we had a pretty quiet evening at our home with Charlotte's Auntie Lindsay, her boyfriend Andy, Uncle Sean, Grandpa Coury and six dogs... ok maybe "quiet" wasn't the right word.  My dad (Grandpa Coury) brought his two dogs and 3 puppies (from a recent litter) over to play.

 I was feeling quite maternal this week, which was good, because I did almost all the cooking myself!  Everything turned out great... including the turkey which I brined over night! 

Yeah, Thanksgiving Dinner is almost ready!

I perfected my mash potatoes last week, and they were a hit at Thanksgiving dinner!  Yum!

Charlotte made the brine...

Charlotte was really excited that I let her help me make the Turkey Brine this morning. I let her add all the ingredients and stir for a while before I turned the heat on! She thought she was really "Kochin" (thats what is it sounds like when she says cookin'). Sometimes she really sounds like she is speaking German or something!!!

Happy Birthday Matt

We Love you!  Happy Birthday!

Charlotte tried on Grandma Juju's reading glasses...

She thought that was hilarious!

Shhh...

So I put Charlotte on our bed to watch a movie. I hear Charlotte cheer, "Yeah" which is my cue that it is over. I enter the room and she has removed her pants and pull-up... just has her shirt on.


Me (momma): "Charlotte, did you take your panties off?!"

Charlotte: "Noooo... Shhhhhh...."
...like if I didn't say it out loud it wouldn't be true???!

Oh Boy!

Who Done it...

The Scene:  I follow Charlotte into her room to find that she has torn her pillow apart and small clumps of pillow stuffing were ALL OVER her floor.

Charlotte: "Oh NO GUYS! What happened here?"

Me (Momma): "Yes, Charlotte... what did happen here?"

Charlotte:  "I don't know!"  With a cute little shrug and hands in the air.

Spaghetti with the Sheltons

Just for fun, we met up with Erin, Wayne, and Christian tonight for dinner at the Spaghetti Factory!  Thanks for calling us guys!  It is always fun to hang out!

While Mommy is away...

Last Friday, I ventured out and went to our church's Womens' Retreat. I really admire the speaker who is a member at our church, has crohns disease, and gets remicaid infusins from Dr. Pete just like me. She is an amazing lady and spoke about learning to go to Christ in our pain. She also talked about going to CHrist during our times of joy as well... but I was really struck by a story she told about a group of people who wanted to put God on trial. The story goes on to tell about how hard these peoples' lives were and that they want God to try to live through being distriminated against, living through tremendous pain, being tortured, etc... to realize at the end that Christ did these very things for us already! Go to Christ in your pain and find Peace that cannot be found anywhere else. While mommy was away at this retreat, daddy ventured to Seattle with Charlotte to visit uncle Sean. Then they took Charlotte to the childrens' museum and Red Robin for lunch. What a fun day!!!

A Beau-tee-ful November Day

We spent November 1st at Aunt Kris & Uncle Brett's House on Fox Island for Grandpa Kelsey's birthday. It was a beautiful fall day and they had a whole bag of golf balls to hit in to the water! I am sure the guys were pleased to see the ladies get the golf bug!