Thanksgiving in Macon

Here is Steve with his Grandma and Mom. Of course Chad fried the turkey. After having fried turkey there is no going back!

These girls are so crazy and cute.

Here are Madi and Great Grandma. Great Grandma Marcella is so fun...she just got a new car last week....a fire engine red PT Cruiser. Go granny! As a matter of fact Teresa (Steve's mom) got a new gorgeous Dodge Charger. Now something is not right when you are jealous of Nana's and Great Grandma's cars.

Madi and Deedee playing on the keyboard. While the girls where doing this, the boys were in Hunter's room with the guitar and AMPLIFIER.

A story and a shirt

I love thinking about the story of mine and Steve's first Thanksgiving. I was so ready to cook my new hubby the best of the best of Thanksgiving dinners. Well it was the night before Thanksgiving and I was right on schedule with this and that. Of course my hubby deserved only the best...homemade everything. My homemade pumpkin pies looked beautiful when I put them in the oven to bake. I left the kitchen for the dinning room to sit and break the loaves of bread for my homemade dressing, when I was interrupted by the over active fire alarm. There was some smoke in the kitchen, but when I open the oven, there were huge flames just licking at the bottom of my pies. (Those flames started because the week before I made my new hubby an over layered and stuffed pan of lasagna that spilled over.) Steve ran in to the rescue and RIPPED the cookie sheet holding my two pies out of the oven. That hot uncooked pumpkin had been flung ALL over my beautiful clean kitchen. We had such a mess...I bet there are still spots in that house that have a touch of pumpkin on them. Steve and I laugh so hard it hurts when we talk about our first Thanksgiving.

My oh my, this morning I was surfing a few blogs and found the cutest idea for a Turkey day shirt over here. Rachael was right it only took about 30 minutes to make. I traced Madi's hand for the turkey body. She is so excited to wear it. With a long sleeve tee under it and a cute bow in her hair,she will be so festive.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The best tree of all!

On Friday I thought of this cute idea to make Steve some UGA ornies for his tree up in the georgia room. So after I picked the kids up from school I told them about the idea and they picked out the words to use. I stitched them while at the kids gymnastics Friday and then on Saturday I picked up the coolest UGA material to back them with. Yesterday the kids had a ball decorating this for their dad.

Steve's idea to use the helmet as a star.

Yesterday was our 1st real day of no school for this week off. The kids, well really just Madi, wanted to go skating. She has been begging to go ever since hailey's birthday party. Ben would not even try skating before yesterday. He is so glad I made him at least try it. He loves it...can you guess what we are doing again today? :-) Hey we get in for free this week and it's only $2.50 for skates.