Thanksgiving Weekend

 We hosted a small Thanksgiving at hour house again and we prepped on Wednesday night. I made my grandma's buns and Andy said this is probably the best they have turned out since we started making them. I was happy to hear that and it only took ten years to get the recipe down. I also made the cranberry sauce the night before and Max injected the bird. It's his favorite part about Thanksgiving.

This year we were invited to a flag football event on the morning of Thanksgiving. We showed up with mimosas and danishes to share with the others. There were about 50 people at the park and teams were picked old school style with the moms being the captains. My team ended up being Andy, Max, Grayson and two high school boys. It was way more fun than I thought and I ended up getting three touchdowns and Max got the last touchdown of the day. Afterward, we hung out drinking mimosas while the younger kids played on the playground and the older kids played football. It was so much fun that we might just make this an annual event.

We just enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with Jack, Grandpa T and Grandma S and I forgot to take any pictures. The next day we did our traditional holiday decorating. Grandpa T came over to help Andy with the outside and I did the inside. We got some new decorations for the outside and Max was most excited about the boxer dog blow-up decoration.

We went to Max's golf lesson that evening and when we returned home saw that Sammy destroyed our tree. She completely chewed through the lights on the tree (it's a pre-lit tree). There were live wires hanging and smashed bulbs on the ground. It was not what we wanted to come home to. Unfortunately, that caused us to buy a new tree that night since it's not really safe to have the live wires hanging out when our tree was plugged in. I thought we could just put electrical tape over it to hold us over until trees are on sale after Christmas, but Andy didn't feel comfortable doing that thinking it's a fire hazard. So, we got a new tree this year and Sammy bought herself time in the crate every time we leave the house now.

Cookie arrived at our house and now the elf is in full effect this year.

We also saw the new Ghostbusters movie. It was really good and I would highly recommend this movie.