Thanksgiving week random

We had a great thanksgiving day at Norm and Cindi's- lots of food, and the pumpkin crisp was a big hit, as usual! I didn't take a lot of pictures, but here is a cute pic of Robert and me on the back deck overlooking the golf course



Last night we went to the Mueller's because everyone has been obsessed playing Rock Band (me especially!) Robert finds my fascination with it amusing, but he lets me be stupid because he thinks it's funny (I think)?? So I'm always trying to get him to play. Last night we convinced him to play the drums and I got Hank to video it with this little camcorder Robert gave me for my birthday. It's a little dark, but I think you can see most of it- and you can hear me cracking up in the background a lot- we were doing great until I got up to give Robert a kiss and unplugged my guitar, but it was still a hoot!

Since it's cold and rainy today I decided to make 2 pots of gumbo- One for us to eat today, and one pot to freeze for when we go to Wintergreen for Christmas so we don't have to eat out all week.....Mmmmm-mmmmm! is all I have to say about that.

How Sweet It Is!

Yesterday afternoon there was a note on my mailbox that a delivery had been left at my neighbor's house for me. I couldn't imagine what it was, because I knew I hadn't ordered anything lately! So I went over to my neighbor's and he gave it to me and it was an edible arrangement from Ben & Alisa and the kids for my birthday- how incredibly sweet! Thanks so much- it is DEE-LISH!!! (I would have never thought that chocolate covered apples would be so good, but they are awesome!)


Here is my latest sewing project: it's called a Sweet N Sassy drawstring purse. You are supposed to tie the string in a bow, but I knew I'd never do that, so I put a push button thingy on it instead. If I can ever find a silver one, I'll change it to match the grommets, but for now it'll do- and I've already had 2 people ask me to make them one!



This doesn't really "go" with the title of this blog, but I just remembered that maybe I should post a picture from Halloween- we went to a party, and we were going to use our pirate costumes from last year, but it was pretty cold and they are NOT warm costumes, so I decided to buy some zombie paint for myself and just wear some bloodied up scrubs. Well, as soon as Robert saw it, he decided that he wanted to be one too, so here we are as zombies/dead people? I really don't know, I don't think zombies bleed red blood, but oh well, it was last minute!


Yeah, we are a bunch of idiots- but we had so much fun putting on our makeup together! Haha...