Images from the Thanksgiving excitement

Thanksgiving was a two-parter this year. Thanksgiving day was spent with the Farmers, my family, Lisa, Joseph, Andrew, & Lindsay - basically 25 crazy people looking for a good time. My Dad decided to mix it up and do a progressive dinner, as opposed to having 25 people sitting around their place. We started out at my place for appetizer. After that we were off to Lisa and Alicia's for salad course. The main part of the meal was up in Lynnwood at the Farrar house for some tasty traditional Thanksgiving fare. All of us then headed down to the Stake Center to help Sarah Plewe with the service project and play a little basketball. We ended up at Mark and Natalie's for dessert. It had to be the busiest Thanksgiving ever. I watched about 45 minutes of the Cowboy/Bucs game and finally took a nap around 8 PM.

Emma Funny Face #1

Emma Funny Face #2

Emma Funny Face #3

Thanksgiving Day 2 (Friday)

Since Sarah was busy all day Thursday, she decided to continue the holiday on Friday. We met up at her place with Joseph, Cindy, Aaron, Emily, and of course Sarah. More tasty food, puzzles, and Casino Royale.

2 out of 3 ain't bad!

A coworker today described to me the 3 M's - Marriage, Mortgage, and Mommy. This weekend we accomplished the second "M." So here is the order of events in getting the house:

Tuesday - found the listing online and contacted our realtor to schedule a showing
Wednesday - saw the house and decided to put an offer on it
Thursday - finalized the offer and sent it over to the listing agent
Friday - our offer was accpeted and we went to Outback Steakhouse to celebrate
Saturday - the home inspector did his thing and we found out our neighbors are Buddhists monks, literally
Monday - the reality of the fact we just got a house set in and we freaked out a bit


















The backyard borders a Buddhist Temple. We haven't seen the monks yet - but rest assured, we will be taking them some banana bread later his month.

Heading up to the country

On Saturday, Boo and I picked up Joseph and Sarah and we joined Cindy, Jane, Kim and the Italians for the 10th annual Berry Battle at Dan Heintz's berry farm out in Sequim. This was my first Berry Battle, so I wasn't sure what to expect. But you know, there is something very therapeutic about hucking over-ripe blackberries at unsuspecting teenagers. I didn't get as messy as some of the other participants, but I ended up a nice shade of red just the same. Definitely something to look forward to next year.