BUSY, BUSY, BUSY

Ryan and I had a very busy Thanksgiving. You are about to read a book.

I need a vacation now from the holiday. It is going to be so hard to get up and go to work tomorrow. Wednesday, my day off, I went to work and put in a full days work 8-3. When I got home, I got ready and we headed out for the Thanksgiving Eve festivities. We met the Christian's at Bones about 5:30. They were there with their realtor friends. Kent, Chris, and Alicia met us up there as well. Brice made it into town around 7:30 from Carbondale, IL and met us at Bones. His friends Bardwell, Phillip, and Art made their appearances as well. It was a night filled with lots of laughs, friends, and family.

Thursday morning, Brice, Ryan, and I all got up and were lazy for a while. We had to be at my uncle's in Columbia by 1:00 for lunch. All of the Jones' were in attendance this year, except my Aunt Paula and her son, Dustin. The food was awesome. I enjoyed turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, and rolls. Yes, there was more, but nothing more for me.

When we left Jerry and Carla's, we had to ride with Brice to go to Wal-Mart to get oil and then to dad's shop so Brice could change his oil. Well, Brice being the genius he is, changed his oil in his good clothes, getting oil on his good pair of jeans. I will get back to this in a second. Then, we headed back to Jeff, dropped Ryan off, and headed out to mom's to visit with her and Randy. Brice finally got his birthday presents from mom, which was Oct. 18th, but Brice hasn't really been around lately.

Brice and I got home around 8:00m that night. Brice, got home and went to bed. He had to head back to Carbondale Friday morning at 4:00 a.m. Well, that left me to take care of the oil stained jeans. I 'Spray and Wash'ed them, with no luck. I then got on the computer to see what other people had to say about oil in jeans. Well, I found it. I washed his jeans with a can of coke!!! BINGO, no more oil.

Friday, we got up and headed to the lake around 11:00. I did not get out in the crazyness of the holiday shopping. People are crazy and I have no interest in giving up my sleep to go deal with greedy people who have no respect for others. But, I did make one stop on our way out of town, which took me 5 minutes tops. I ran into Shoe Carnival to get Ryan a pair of Clark's shoes for Christmas. They are usually $89.00 and I got them for $37.00 and some change!!! Then we left town. We went to Ryan's mom's and had some more turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, and rolls. After we ate, we played The Game of Life. Ryan hates the new version of it. It is about luck and nothing else. I ended up not going to college, first I was an entertainer, but I had a mid-life crisis and became and artist. I had twins (1 boy and 1 girl) and another son, all living in our car. I ended up making 1.2 million dollars. Tony, my brother-in-law won with 1.8 million. He was a computer tech with no college degree and a couple kids. He also lived in his car. After the game, we visited for a little longer and headed back to Jeff.

Once we got back to Jeff, we went and met Wes, Kent, Chris, Chris, and Alicia at Kegley's. We had a good time. We went and ate at Madison's around 9:45 or so. It was wonderful, but the company wasn't that great. I was surrounded by drunks. Wes even came very close to making my throw up when he took a chunk of butter on his fingers from the ramikin and ate it. Absolutely disgusting! Ryan and I were home in bed by 10:30.

Saturday, we laid around the house all day! Then, we headed out again to meet Wes and Kent At El Jimador (a few others were there as well). Once we left, we headed to Soggy Bottoms. I wasn't looking forward to going out, but I enjoyed myself. The guys played pool, and I spent most of my evening talking to Jay and occasionally my husband. :)

And finally, Sunday, Ryan and I slept in, then headed to his uncle's in Koelztown for a fish fry. We were there all afternoon. We finally got home around 5:30. I am exhausted! Christmas isn't going to be any better!

I hope everyone else had an enjoyable Thanksgiving with their friends and families.

Little Boxes

My mom is a fan of the show Weeds on Showtime. She enjoys it so much, that she has purchased the DVD's. Last season, she asked Ryan to burn a couple copies of her DVD's so she can let her friends borrow them. Well, Ryan burned a copy for us and he watched season 1 and 2. He starting singing this ridiculous song around the house in a high pictched voice. I realized one night when he made me watch the first show of Weeds where this song came from. It is the theme song of Weeds. He absolutely loves this song. You should ask him to sing it for you sometime. It's great! (He will only sing verses 1 and 2 though since those are the only verses on the theme song.) I wish I could record him and put that on my blog instead of the recording Malvina Reynolds.

Anyway, a couple weekends ago, there was nothing on tv, so Ryan suggested we watch Weeds. I agreed. I watched the entire first season. It was good. Sunday, I decided to watch season 2. It was GREAT! I had to call mom and get season 3 because I knew she had recently purchased it as well. I am in the middle of season 3 and I am really enjoying it! I can't wait for season 4 to hit DVD. I never thought I would enjoy a show such as this one, but suprisingly, I do. Lots of twists and never knowing what is going to happen next!

Enjoy the song!

Just The 10 of Us

Last night, the 10 of us got together for the first time in a very long time. We decided to go bowling. We had a good time, the girls on one lane, the boys on another, as usual. We had good conversation and were able to catch up each other on the goings on in our lives. I think at one time or another, all the girls got a strike. (Except Amanda, who just came to visit, no bowling for her.) At one time, Ryan was being, well--Ryan. He was giving Janelle a hard time about something, and the next thing we know, he is sticking his finger up her nose. It was so gross! I WISH I had my camera. They both refused to do it again for a picture. Janelle says her nostril will never be the same. Good times!!Notice the names!

After a strike!

Another strike!

HAHA! Amanda is imitating Kim's twins bouncing up and down when she laughs. It was funny.

I don't know what he is doing! I think he is also imitating Kim.

After bowling, we picked up the kiddos and headed back to Beth and Jim's. Had to grab my camera for this one.