Happy Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year Dallas and I split our time as usual. We started our day with 2 turkey bowls for Dallas and a great workout for Jenn. Out of the ordinary though, I (Jenn) had to actually cook! I think this is the first Thanksgiving I was asked to make something. I am 25 though so I guess I have to start sometime. Everything turned out great. After our morning Dallas and I went to Nana and Papa's place for our first Thanksgiving meal with is mom's side. Everything was really good. especially his moms sweet potatoes. They were made with extra love and boy did we love her for that. After the meal i helped clean up and chatted with the family while dallas took a nap. The turkey kicked in really quick. After Dallas woke up we said our goodbyes and made our way over to see my family and to eat our second meal. Ugh!

So during and after dinner Langley enjoyed her Thanksgiving food. She was in a sharing mood and gave me many chunks of her green bean casserole. She also decided it would be fun to smear it on her own face instead of putting it in her mouth.

Thanksgiving turned out really great this year. After spending some time Thanksgiving afternoon at Dallas' Grandparents house with his mom's side of the family, we traveled out to south Gilbert and had a dinner with my sisters and brother and niece. Joey made the Turkey which turned out great and which Dallas was so generous to carve. Jessica did the green bean casserole and mashed potatoes. Alexis did the stuffing and I did the other green bean casserole and rolls. Everything turned out great and Langley even enjoyed it. After dinner we put Lang to bed and played games. It was a pretty hilarious time.   

Langley got to say hi to her daddy.

Dallas carved that turkey to the bone:)

So this is our apartment well parts of it. all decorated an what not. It must have been late because Conan is doin his thing on our HDTV which is a year old. The lovey wreath on our door was an awesome gift given to me (Jenn) from my good friend Lara Fletcher:) She an amazing girl and really shouldn't have:)

Twilight

Well Friday is the day!!! Twilight is out and I can't wait! It took me long enough to get into the books and after I read The Host, I though ok why not. So I began reading figuring I would loose interest, but much to my surprise I loved them and quickly devoured all 4 books and I am currently reading Midnight Sun online. I have become such a fan that for my classes themed scarecrow for the school fall festival we did a Twilight theme and dressed our scarecrow as Edward. It was a labor of love;)So yes I can now be grouped with the tweeny group of girls and their mothers who will be lining up to watch Bella and Edward's story come to life on screen....it will never do my imagination justice:)

Pumpkin Hunting and New Happenings

Yay!! Its finally starting to get cold in AZ. Well at least in the mornings and late evenings. We'll take it 
though. Its helping us get into the holiday spirit. Not that I (Jenn) need any help. I am watching The Grinch as I type this. And if you're wondering its the cartoon version, the best one:) Well as you can see we went pumpkin shopping the week of Halloween. Now why this is still relavant is because we ended up never having time to carve the pumpkin and it is still chillin on our doorstep all perfect. Well its only rotted a bit, on the back side. But its doing well and adds to our festive Thanksgiving decor. Besides holidays, we have been super d duper busy. Dallas has started up his own city of Mesa softball team the Softball Homers. He recruited some guys from church, some from highschool and some from work to play. So far they are pretty decent, but the one team that they played sucked hard core. Dallas is also playing on a work softball team for the city of Mesa. So thats right he is gone 2 nights a weeks ballin it up. Thats just fine with me. Except the first team, the team Dallas put together, I have to be team wife. Its not bad, just cold. Along with being team wife:) I am juggling quite the load between work and school. Being on the activities commitee, we are in the heat of the season. I just helped to wrap up the Halloween party which was a success and we have moved right on to the Christmas party. A Hawaiian Luau. Nice right:) The best of both worlds, kinda sorta. I am also now a den leader for the bears and every Thursday night we are creating and doing and trying not to hurt ourselves while signing of cubscout stuff. I dunno I've never done this before. At work, whew,  I am shoulder deep in Student Council work. We just wrapped up a Fall Festival where we made $300 from a bake sale. Not shabby. I am also coordinating and running a canned food drive. Did i mention i am doing all this for only half the pay. Yeah. Sucks. Oh and did I mention the 24 kids that occupy my classroom and are my number one priority?? Yeah my head is spinnin to say the least. But somehow I am whippin it all out and getting it all done and still having time to spend with Dallas. Whew prayers answered yeah? Soooo... life is very busy and crazy to say the least but we are still oh so happy and lovin it all. Crazy is good right?? Well, thats my motto for now.