Some more Thanksgiving pictures

Helping Aunt Liz feed the horses- about 25 horses [including 2 ponies].

We tried to have a family photo taken but everyone couldn't get their act together...

Happy Thanksgiving

We had Thanksgiving at Aunt Liz's horse on the horse property where she works. A beautiful home. She made a turkey breast [those pop-up timer things that were advertised on tv by Albertson's work really well], potatoes, green bean casserole, green salad, and supplied the drinks and pecan pie with homemade whipped cream topping. I made cranberry sauce and a mushroom-onion stuffing that turned out pretty good. My hot crab dip was made the night before for dinner :)

Morning funnies

In case you don't know I have been really, really sick. This past weekend Dan had also been on drill and with standing days/parts of nights outside in the cold, rain [also got a flu shot courtesy of the military]- he wasn't feeling so great himself when he came home Sunday night. We all slept in Monday morning- Solomon got up around 9:15am [late for him], Cyrus got up at 9:40am, Dan got up at 9:45am leaving me to try to sleep, which I did 10-11am... So Dan is wearing his pjs and his coffee is starting to brew when a knock on the door was heard. Dan not thinking clearly at all opened the door and there was his background investigator along with another police background investigator. Although the kids went wild trying to "entertain" our guests, Dan's military stuff is all over the floor, being so sick- I let the house go a little, and everyone in their pjs and it is 10:15am. Just came by [drop a few neighbor background checks] and to let Dan know that he is recommended to hire and she'll [background investigator] call after Thanksgiving with an appointment for the psych evaluation to be done on Dec 10th or 11th. Of course with Dan's embarrassment, lack of caffeine and kids going wild- didn't get a word of it until he email apologizing again for our "casual" moment and asked what was said. Thankfully they never asked after me so they can assume that it is all Dan's fault for things being funny that morning.
We'll post the date when we get it next week!

Quote

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
-- -Author Unknown

Veteran Benefits

House OKs tax relief for soldiers, veterans
Unanimous vote also will allow them access to low-interest home loans

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21661419/

Just some small good news :)

Happy Birthday Marine Corps!

Happy Veterans' Day!

Trick or Treating at the senior care home:

[My daycare kid Oliver and Cyrus]

Cyrus is a cute monkey for the second year in a row- it was the same event last year that he discovered "cute" gets you more candy :)

AUGUST 2008

Well family and friends- Dan will have a long National Guard drill this coming August- he will be in Idaho August 2nd through August 25th so if you want us to visit you or want to visit- this would be an excellent time :) Now accepting RSVPs....

When they talk about snow in Portland :)

For those living in California :) when they talked about it snowing in Portland- it starts with Mt. Hood which is the big thing behind Grandpa with the boys [this was taken in August and it is now pretty much covered with snow but not super deep yet as we are having a pretty cold fall- and should be a very cold winter]...

Pumpkin Patch Pictures

The boys are so cute!