eating for two.

Who says you can't enjoy Thanksgiving without a stomach?

How thankful we were to have our sweet mother released from her month long stay in the hospital on Thanksgiving day!  We found "out of the box" ways to entertain mom {besides eating all the deliciousness in front of her}...

This is NOT what it seems... ...hits off the Incentive Sparometer.

{Even the babies got in on that action}

Three examples of things I'm grateful for:

1. Children who still like to smooch their mom.

2. Capturing the one time in history my brother has actually smiled for a picture.

3. My husband's killer sense of appropriate thanksgiving dinner attire {in his defense we did, for the first time ever, eat off paper plates}

What would a feast be like where elyott DID like the food??

Hope your holidays find you well {with or without a stomach}

**also...what's up with my orange oompa loompa face?!?

♥ team boo

xmas icebreaker.

Thanksgiving day...

...roughly 67 crazy turkey impressions later (per Elyott's request)...my head is throbbing and i am ready for a new holiday.

Onward!

**our first xmas craft. maybe our last? i'm tapped out.

kids are weirdos.

What's that? you don't watch TV with a cage on your head?

26'ed.

*Yesterday morning I woke up and discovered that I had lost ten pounds. Deb had left a half dozen cinnamon rolls on my doorstep...and Adam stayed up all night scrubbing the house top to bottom.  That's cause it was my birthday and things just go your way, you know. 

{*untrue}

Ah, hopes and dreams.

Well actually, i rolled out of bed pulled on my brand new shirt from my thoughtful husband {wink} and went to gain 10 pounds at the Farmhouse for breakfast were i took pictures of my husband and i eating {weird} with me sporting the same unwashed and untouched hair with green spray paint in it from Sunday (because i could!).

There began the foodfest that is an adult birthday. Here are the things i ate (as if my life depended on it) in no particular order:


1/2 of a steak and blue cheese panini
1 enormous cinnamon roll
1 biscuit with gravy
2 slices of sourdough toast
2 pounds of egg white only avocado and swiss scramble
3 slices of white pizza
4 cups of diet coke (oh the absurd contradiction)
5 mouthfuls of sweet potato salad
6 bites of chocolate cake
...aaaand an entire 12 ounce Nielsons chocolate malt custard.


All was well in my abdomen until i watched the low budget cheesefest that was Twilight (are you kidding me?) I was laughing so hard i nearly threw up. At home I returned to a sleepy husband and a clean(ish) house where i could ponder my day of celebration:

"Why, (my suffering digestive track pleaded) why do birthday's always amount to such uncivilized amounts of food inhilation?"

"Because, {croaked a tired yet trusty pair of spanx i was sporting under my skinny jeans} just because."

**Spanx...for a birthday feast that won't raise eyebrows. Looks like my birthday went my way after all :) Nothin' can stop me now! (cue tap dance).

yee haw i'm 26!

sibling shout outs.

In keeping with my "love kick" I realized that after almost 100 postings I have never let you in on some of my best kept social weapons....my unmatched siblings.  Let me list a few reasons why i prefer them to almost anyone else.

Steph 

(the "redhead")

1. most hilarious girl i know {also the loudest...ie. pterodactyl scream}

2. reflective and kind hearted

3. can make anything amazingly beautiful {seeeriously anything}

4. magnetic

5. passionate and inspired

6. drops BFF's like its hot {but can't drop me cause were seesters}

Liza 

(the "middle" sister ;)

1. creative and beautiful

2. generous and loyal, an amazing friend to anyone

3. supportive and a wicked good secret keeper

4. honest and genuine

5. gives the best reactions, and easiest laughter

6. most entertaining storyteller {complete with signature pelvic thrusted walk}

Chris 

(the "baby")

1. reserved yet retarded on cue

2. the smart one 

3. selective and independent

4. funny and also cooler than me {which isn't hard}

5. got the "butt" and the "lips"

6. secretly loves and wants to be like me and he knows it ;)

Spence

(the "golden child")

1. insanely imaginative 

2. amazingly outgoing and interesting

3. sweet and thoughtful

4. entertaining and clever

5. tenacious

6. has put up with all 10 of his parents for 11 years (you rock the house brother)

*this glorious picture of me has been re-posted to ensure no sibling accuses me of posting a bad picture of them (feel free to click to enlarge, its a doozy)...