Thanksgiving 2010

Thanksgiving is always at Mom's house

It isn't Thanksgiving without everyone looking at the Black Friday ads

Mom's famous french apple pies are simply a must...there is never a shortage of pie variety

What a gorgeous Thankgsiving Day

We ran out of room this year in the Giving book, so I had to add new pages. This is the tradition for over 10 years that all the people that come write in the book what they are thankful for

I love my grandma's (the one I never met) version of stuffing.

Since Omar has been around he has become the official turkey carver.

I wish I had taken more pictures of course. But once we start eating everything becomes a blur. This year Mary, Megan and Ben Wallis came, as well as Nancy, the boys and Micah brought one of his roommates. All of us kids were there, and Aaron Ihli and his family came. We had all the trimmings: turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potato yummy, green bean casserole, stuffing, broccoli spinach casserole, creamed onions, creamed squash, homemade rolls, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, french apple pie and icecream.

This year for the movie we went and saw Harry Potter. Also, we played quite a bit of Settlers of Catan. Super fun!

The next day we went and took family pictures. That was the first time I think we have done that since I was in high school. Kelly and I got this for mom's Christmas gift. It was a perfect day for pictures.

Wonder Works Out of Control Magic Show

I was a part of a couple of his trick. I was on stage for a good 20 minutes.

After the Dave Ramsey show we went over to Wonder Work's Out of Control Magic Dinner Show. Omar and I got groupons to go and my dad and Erin Pratt also joined us. It was really a great show. The food wasn't half bad either. I actually participated in about 15 minutes of the show on stage. This magician was really funny and talented. That is a lot to say after having sat for over 6 hours at the Dave Ramsey event right beforehand. I really am not sure how he did a lot of his tricks. I would go to this show again.

I am glad that we have been trying to find some deals for things down in Orlando area to try out that we have never done before. It seems that a lot of times growing up in Orlando, everything is so tourist and Disney oriented that we don't take the time to take advantage of some of the neat things to do.

Dave Ramsey Live!

So we went to the Dave Ramsey live event yesterday in Orlando. It was a great refresher for us since we are Financial Peace University Grads. It seems as though it has gotten Omar back into wanting to work to be debt free, which is exactly what we have been working on. We are focusing on being debt free for everything but the house by July 2011!!! That would be the best birthday present ever! Here's to Dave Ramsey...we love him! If you don't know who this guy is you need to go to his website http://www.daveramsey.com/ listen to him on the radio or watch him on Fox. Practical financial knowledge that will bring financial peace!!!

A cowgirl, an Indian, a Night of Mystery

The Assassins

Omar is in the Elder's Quorum Presidency and they have been planning their first activity for the Quorom which was the other night...a Murder Mystery Dinner. It was a ton of fun and people got really into it.

Omar was hilarious and had a perfect part for him, an Indian. Omar told me he thought he was chosen to be an Indian because of his color, I didn't think someone would have thought of that. I asked the Quorum president and he told me that was exactly why. I just laughed...but Omar was perfect with the horrible English and throwing jokes in all over the place. Boy did he look the part too!

I was a cowgirl and ended up being a main character in the plot. I enjoyed dressing up to, but had a wicked hard time of finding a gun! I finally bought a nerf gun as all the toy stores no longer sell cap guns or guns that look like real guns since kids have been killed by cops because of it. Someone told me they found a gun at Walgreens and I bought it an hour before the event, it was a working cap gun! It was perfect and completed my get-up.

The perfect couple...but not in this show

He was hilarious he was the lover that stole all the girls hearts

I totally want to host my own party now...have been wanting to for a while. I guess I will need to get on that...so many parties and so little time to host.