Gobble gobble

We had a very nice Thanksgiving! I hope you all did too. Jed's been very busy the past few weeks doing Christmas lights, so it was SO lovely to have a whole day with him and Addie. I made all my pies the night before (which rocked) so we got to relax in the morning until it was time to go to Jed's parents'.

We had Thanksgiving with Jed's parents, siblings, and his mom's side of the family this year. It was fun for Addie to be able to play with her cousin (well 2nd cousin?) Eden. Dawn made delicious food....mmmm I love Thanksgiving.....

Eden, Addie, Whitney and baby Tristan

Jed carving the turkey. He was proud of his "mad surgical skills" and said Preston Burke would be proud. It was a huge turkey- weighed more than our kid!

Addie's first time eating big people Thanksgiving dinner

Guys doing dishes :) love it

After we all ate, Addie and Edie wanted to play outside. What a beautiful day it was! We didn't even need coats. It was so fun watching them run around. (NO idea how kid can run around after eating....)

Addie teaching Edie to run down Papa Steve's hill.

Aunt Ashley came out to play and the girls loved it. We also played Ring around the Rosie which both girls found hilarious.

I love this holiday because it's all about family, thankfulness, and food! We finished our day by going over to my mom's and enjoying some more pie.

Then way after Addie went to bed, Kacey, Ash and I went out to venture the midnight sales......to no end since we COMPLETELY underestimated how many people would be already in line outside waiting. Still a fun adventure though!

Some stuff I've learned the past week or so

• I learned that there is a way to screw up No-Bake Cookies. It involves butter being measured in ounces not tablespoons and MATH, oh stupid math. I am still bitter....
  
• I learned today that my new company is AWESOME and I'm so excited to have such fabulous training and innovative high tech tools at my fingertips. Wahoo!
  
• I learned that Addie LOVES snow!! I also learned that her coat from last year still fits- SCORE.

• I learned that not only does my child love Jamba Juice, she can also say it :) AND I heart our local one because they gave her and her buddy Max their very own little cups with extra in it. Kids got their own cups. We didn't have to have them use our straws. Win-Win. (sorry for the bad pic, the kids would only stand by the window)

• Fall and Winter co-exist, sometimes even on the same tree. Love it. I actually enjoyed watching the snow fall this weekend. I'm calling this beautiful mixture of in between seasons Wautum or perhaps Finter? Either way, I'm liking it. I adore the smell in the air and knowing Thanksgiving is next week!

• Last, but not least, oh I wish I hadn't learned THIS
  Yes, that would be my husband balancing on the edge of a rooftop just above the rain gutter, putting up Christmas lights. Oh, no worries, it's only a 20-foot high roof with rocks below....... He IS wearing a harness and brother Blake atop the roof and is supposedly keeping him from falling, buuut uhhh apparently I wasn't supposed to have stopped by to say hi at this point. Hmmm, wonder why..... (again, sorry bad pic....maybe that's for the best)

Change

Change is coming once again.......even though we've had more change in a year than I thought possible, I'm embracing it and I'm excited!

I'm going to switch real estate companies to better suit my needs and our family's needs. It's been a hard decision because I love the people who I work with. Even though I did get my Mortgage license recently, Real Estate really is my passion. I'm excited to be busy once again, be able to work mostly from home, and hopefully able to be successful. It's going to be a lot of work and effort but I'm ready to do it. So tally ho right?

I've always loved the quote "Change is inevitable, growth is optional" and I've said that to myself a LOT over the years. So here's hoping I grow in my work life as well as my home life :)



Just a side note, I made Addie's blog private, so let me know if you'd like an invite.

H to the ALL-- O to the WEEN

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

Here's our little butterfly all ready for trunk or treat Thursday evening.
My evil plan worked. She wasn't on board with wearing her antenea, so I took her to trunk or treat so she'd see WHY it is worth it to dress up. Ha I win ;)

Baby cousin Tristan the giraffe

Friday we went to Grammy Dawn's office at Wonder Bread to trick or treat. The office ladies all loved her and they all gave her treats. It rocks going to Wonder cause she got twinkies and cupcakes. Now that's a treat!

We saw Grady and Taylor on Halloween for a few minutes. Tay is a lady bug and Grady is Flash ( I don't know who that is) Uncle Bryan and Grandma Rees thought they were all cute of course.


That night we went to Blake and Kacey's for a party and had such a fun time! Thanks for hosting guys- your place was so cute all decorated.

Addie and I as butterflies

We didn't really take her trick or treating much, just a few houses on Blake's street. She said "trick or treat" very cute. She didn't get the concept though, because every house we went to she tried to walk into. Glad my kid will just walk into strangers homes and try and hang with them. Guess "stranger danger" will need to be discussed at some point.

My contribution to the party. Witch cupcakes.

They were fun to make and pretty easy

Some October Fun

Here's what we did this week, before Halloween. I love October and I can't believe it is already over. That means Thanksgiving is coming though, which makes me very very happy. Anyway, once again I digress about the thought of food.....

Exploring in the mountains

Pumpkin Carving

Half a second after I took this, Addie gagged and almost threw up. Ha, I told her she wouldn't like it....

Addie proud of the pumpkins. She'll tell you hers says "BOO" and that it's "letters" :)



It was COLD this week, therefore I baked.

Candy Corn sugar cookies. Pretty easy and fun. I made regular sugar cookies last week and decorated them. They weren't that cute so I didn't bother with a picture- just ate them instead.

My FAVE fall treat to make. Yum!


Playdate with Megan and Anna

The girls played at Anna's then we fed them lunch there. Then Megan and I had our lunch at Red Mango. Yep, we totally had frozen yogurt for lunch. It rocked.

gus gus, the super-mutant ninja mouse

Last tuesday evening, Addie was in bed, and Jed and I were watching House when I saw a little grey furry creature scurry out from behind the TV and around the corner in the pantry. Yes. A MOUSE. A MOUSE IN MY HOUSE!!

I'm sooooo not okay with rodents. I don't like them in the wild, in a cage and especially in MY house. I, thinking I was actually being quite calm, pointed and said to Jed "mouse, mouse, mouse!" He jumped up and went over to the pantry, opened the door and it went running back out and behind the TV from where it had come from. OH THE HORROR. He tried to see where it went, couldn't find it and after 20 minutes or so said "guess Gus Gus got away" NOT. COOL. Ummm, not sure that guys get where us women, well at least myself, are coming from. He told me to just put out a couple of traps and we'd catch it eventually. SERIOUSLY??
Oh and he also informed me that somehow the front door hadn't been closed tight the night before and he had come downstairs at 3am to it wide open. UH SCARY. At least I know how the disgusting creature invaded my house. Needless to say I put out two traps the next day (which was me being very brave I thought) and we never saw another sign of it.


Soooo fast forward to this Thursday night. A week and two days later. After our Thursday night shows, we went up to our bedroom to go to bed at 11:45. I opened the drawer to get out pajamas and when I closed it, out from behind the dresser I caught a black blur out of the corner of my eye from the dresser to under the bed. I really thought I just was seeing things, till Jed walked out of the bathroom, "did you see that??" Ahhhh!!! MOUSE in my BEDROOM!
Okay, first of all, how did a mouse even get up the freaking stairs?!

So as I sit ON the bathroom counter, Jed starts tearing our room apart trying to see where it went. I muster the ability to cross the room to the bed and make my post up there trying to see if I can see any sign of it. Nothing. Ugh. We were both sooo tired, but there was NO WAY I was sleeping in the same room as that thing. I don't care if it is tiny, or as Jed said, and "irrational fear". It's filthy and is totally throwing of my whole groove and zen and all that.

Jed went downstairs and got one of the traps and we came up with a plan to scare it out of wherever it was hiding and into the trap. Umm, so for future reference, mice are FAST and they're sneaky! Jed was searching behind our bed and nightstands as I, weilding a curtain rod (yes that's right) was ready to strike if I saw it.
I gently hit the wall behind the dresser with it on a hunch and there that sucker went again! Across the room and once again under our bed. (you know the kind sized, temperpedic mattress adorned bed that weights like a thousand pounds that we can't move)

I once again jump onto it and Jed starts trying to find/scare it again. This goes on for an HOUR. It would run somewhere, find refuge, then take us forever to figure out where and so on. I kept telling Jed "dude this is a friggin Ninja mouse! This is NOT Gus Gus!" of course then Jed referred to it as Splinter from TMNT. Yep, he's a geek, but I love him cause he was chasing a mouse around for me. I still think naming something you're trying to kill is a bad idea though.....

It finally ran back behind the dresser and so Jed put the trap at the exit and banged the wall again on the other side and there it went- SNAP! I'll now spare you the details of Jed "finishing the job" cause really I can't think about it or relive it. My heart was pounding so hard it is again as I'm writing this. Ha, yep, I'm a wuss. Alas, the mouse was dead. Dead and gone. I really just wanted in gone, but I accepted that dead would have to happen first. If he'd cooperated, we would have spared his life, but he didn't. So sorry Gus Gus. This is OUR house and we don't share with disease-ridden small furry things.

So after putting our room back together, cause it was torn completely apart, we went to bed. I serioulsy laid there for an hour before I could sleep. I felt so itchy, creepy-crawly, and had all sorts of adrenaline running through me.

I'm very happy that I no longer have to be scared to open the pantry or worry about seeing that thing. Whew. Please don't let PETA see this post blogging friends okay? :)

Well Rounded

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