Thanksgiving Adventures

This year Logan and I decided we would cook Thanksgiving for us and our friend Jen. It was actually a lot of fun and turned out great. Of course that was after many preThanksgiving phone calls to our families to figure out what we were doing and a late night Target run Wednesday night for a meat thermometer. We had a cute little turkey named Oscar (Logan likes to name things) and the "all the trimmings". We made real mashed potatoes, lots of home made stuffing, green bean cassarole, and rolls. For dessert we had the nontraditonal brownies and icecream. We decided pie was a little much to attempt on our first try. Maybe next year! Since we ate early we went for a second dessert and pina colodas at the Reavis' house. We hung out and Logan had the chance to play video games with someone who actually knows how to play-unlike me!

The Thanskgiving adventures continued extermely early Friday morning as I introduced Logan to early morning electronics shopping. We were in line at Circuit City before 4 and then headed over to Target before they opened at 6. It was a little cold, but we found some good deals. I missed the Cinnabons Dad always brought though. We forgot! After shopping we caught a quick nap before meeting Nolan, Marcus, and their girlfriends for some D.C. sightseeing. Our trip to the art museum proved how uncultured Logan and I are. We didn't understand any of it! After a fun afternoon with them we ordered pizza, watched a movie and crashed early. So as the pictures show we had a great Thanksgiving "weekend." Now Logan is back at work and I spent the day doing Christmas shopping and school work. I guess holidays can't last forever!

"Slumber Party" Weekend

Well, after a year of planning our slumber party weekend has come and gone. On Thursday Ottens and Danfords came for their yearly visit. This year we tried something new-we all stayed at the apartments. For those of you that are doing quick mental math you are correct that is 9 people (5 adults and 4 teenagers) between 2 one bedroom apartments. I wish I would have taken a picture of all the air matteresses. Logan's place looked like a maze of beds. It was fun to have everyone here and staying in sort of one place. Weather for the weekend was chilly, but overall not too bad. A little wet Friday, but we dealt. Friday we were able to see the White House and have a great tour of the Capital building thanks to Charlie's connections. I personally was quite upset to not see the dish room. I did quote the movie whenever I could, but since Logan couldn't go there was no reenacting. :) We hit the Natural History Museum and finished off with dinner at Hard Rock Cafe. Saturday we spent the day in Annapolis and then had a great time singing kareokee and playing girls vs. boys "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?" I won't reveal the results. :) Sunday was church and back downtown to see the rest of the monuments. Some even went up the Washington Monument! After a day of walking we decided ordering pizza and chilling at the apartment was the way to go. Monday we had to take them back to the airport and now today everyone (except Logan) is back at work. As with anything we all do it was an adventure and lots of fun. We did tons of walking and saw a bunch of stuff. Took tons of pictures too. I'm sharing a few of mine today and I'll add some of Charlie and Alex's when I receive them. Next year we want to push the trip back to Dec. so they can see everything decorated for Christmas. We'll see what happens, but that will for sure be an adventure!

Logan's Birthday

Well, I know this is two in one day and it was a month ago, but thought I'd share pictures from Logan's birthday celebrations. We had fancy dinner (I cooked ribs and mashed potatoes) and then presents and cake. This year I even managed not to melt the candles into the dessert. Saturday we went out to Mediveal Times. We had a great time and he was totally surprised (up until a couple hours before that is).

Copy Cat

This is something I've never done before, but since I love reading Sarah's I thought I'd be a copy cat. Sorry Sarah, but thaks for the help with it. I just thought it'd be fun to show my pictures too. So if this works the way I hope here are pictures of Logan and I's pumpkin carving pumpkin adventure. Lots of fun! According to Logan his name was Charlie Pumpkin. He is unfortunetly no longer with us. :)