Thanksgiving 2014

Happy Thanksgiving!! 

I hope you had a good day. :-) I did. I slept in ;-P and then we all just hung around. The boys played a board game, Mama cooked food, and I sat around and texted the girls ;-)  

Later the boys went outside (daddy included) and mama cooked more ;-P and I went and got dressed and did my hair. 

We had dinner around 4:00. It was so good. We all ate until we literally could eat no more. 

Menu:

Turkey 

Mash potatoes

Gravy

Stuffing

Broccoli Casserole

Rolls with Honey Butter 

That delicious cranberry jelly stuff that comes in a can. 

We also had water and sparkling cider :-)

Dessert:

Chocolate Pecan Pie

Maple Butterscotch Pudding 

Things we were thankful for when asked at dinner:

Daddy-God and his grace 

Mama-all of us 

Me-The Hoops and Avonlea

Piersen-he couldn't decide. He was just so thankful for everything. How precious is that?? 

Saxon-Libby and Millie

Now, pictures!:-D

Piersen and I. (Yes, our Christmas tree is up)

Saxon and I 

Us three. Oh, and we're even in age order. I didn't notice that before. ;-P

Mama's setup :-)

Saxon and I were so full. I took it just as he said "full." Ha!

Millie!:-)

My food. 

Yes. She is extremely spoiled ok? I handed her turkey underneath the table. Besides, I had to quiet her down;-P

We gave the dogs some leftovers 

Saxon loves Libby. 

He was trying to keep her warm. HAHA!!

Recently

We haven't been up to too much lately. Just hanging around together:-) Saturday we went to a family from church's house for a early thanksgiving dinner. It was fun. Mrs Jessie made creme brûlée in candied pumpkins. They were so good!! I ate two ;-P

Isn't she adorable? She got all snuggled up like that by herself. <3

Saxon and I on our old neighbors giant teddy bear. :-D

I seriously did my school like this for about ten minutes. It wasn't very good of me seeing as how I have a bit of a cold anyways. Let's just say my head didn't feel great that day. ;-P

I had some fun with eyeliner one day. ;-P it didn't turn out right-I made the tip way too thick-but it was still fun. :-)

I do not like this picture of me but you can see better how I made the ends too thick. 

Oh dear. ;-P

Ok seriously. Is. He. Not. Precious?!? Gosh!! <3

I guess that's all for now. :-) Thanksgiving is today. I hope you all have a great one. The Hoops were going to be here a few days after but plans got messed up. :-/ We (me and the hoop girls) are extremely sad. Seriously. :-(

I'll post about our thanksgiving. ;-)

A song (Lotr/hobbit)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid3303744355001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAA0Xi_s~,r1xMuE8k5Nz1HmLGrVlkxGTUBUM_JtH-&bctid=3902271175001

(Ok, hopefully you should be able to click on that link to see it. comment if it doesn't work!)

This is a song sung by Billy Boyd (Pippin in lord of the rings). It's gonna play at the end of the battle of the five armies supposedly. 

I'm so sad. It's the end. This is the last hobbit. No more Lotr or hobbit after this

:-(

And oddly I didn't cry while I was watching it but afterwards I started to. 

Thanks to the hoops for sharing this video! <3

An Update on my update

Hi! Sorry, I just couldn't resist that title. To me it's really fun to say. ;-P
Anyhoo! I updated the look of my blog...again :-/ I just wasn't ready for a super Christmas-y one. Maybe once it reaches December. :-)
So...how do you like the look? It's not my favorite but I didn't feel like spending forever to get it amazing. :-P Can you read the font ok?

Love y'all!!<3 nbsp="" p="">

P.S. I'm a super duper really indecisive person...so don't be super surprised if I change the look to something not Christmas-y....again. ;-D

Update

As you can see I changed the look of my blog. I personally really like it. I'm thinking maybe I should've made it a little less Christmas-y and just kinda warm tones until it gets closer to Christmas cause I'm worried I might get tired of this one too soon. :-/ I'll have to think about it. But in the meantime I have a question...Can you read the words alright? I don't like boring ones but I feel like when I choose fancier ones they're always too hard to read. So your opinion on that would be nice :-)

Sunday Outfit #4

This sunday I wore a jean skirt, top from Fred Meyers, and black boots. My hair was straightened and down. My makeup was my usual-brown eyeshadow, mascara, blush. ;-) diamond earrings, and my necklace I wear everyday (my friendship ring around a chain cause otherwise it's too big)

I didn't get a picture of my whole outfit. We slept in (:-/ ) and then had a long day-church and then a bday party. 

Also, not sure if I've mentioned it before but my friend Leah Hoop is doing the outfit thing with me. I'll put a link to her blog in my sidebar-along with some other blogs. (I'm not positive you'll be able to reach the Hoop Girls blogs. I think you may only be able to view them by being invited by the blogger. Not sure) anyways, she's on week six of sunday outfits because we (the barbers) skipped two weeks of church. ;-P

Also, here's what our friendship rings look like. Except now mine is on a chain ;-) 

They came in a set of three at OldNavy so we just got two sets. :-)

Also, if my last post sounded weird-I'm sorry. I typed it up as the things happened during that day so it was kinda different.

Seward Sea Life Center

On Tuesday Daddy got to stay home for Veterans Day so he decided to just take Wednesday off too since during the Winter the Sea Life Center is free on Wednesdays for Alaska Residents. 

Wednesday morning we finally got up at 8:00. Thankfully everyone got going and didn't sit around. ;-P

We left the house around 9:00, ran to Walmart and finally got on our way to Anchorage at about 9:30 I believe. We stopped for coffee at SteamDot in Anchorage. At 12:00 we were still on the road to Seward. We pulled over for about 5 minutes to look at the water real quick. It was SO windy. I really wish I could put videos on here :-( we finally arrived at 2:00 and got in free for Alaska residents free winter Wednesday's. It was really cool. There was a bunch of tanks with smaller fish and crabs and that sort of thing. There was a touch tank with weird slimy feeling things. ;-P I did touch though. ;-) there was also a huge Stellar Sea Lion named Woody. I didn't know they got that big! There was also a place where you could go into an enclosed bids area and there were a bunch of birds and some of them went under the water and swam. It was so cute when they swam...they looked like they were flying underwater. Haha! There was a place where you could go out and see Harbor Seals. 

Big crab!

I believe this was a huge shrimp. 

Star fish:-)

Woody the Stellar Sea Lion. 

That is an octopus closed eye. I thought it was very cute. 

I have no clue what this is. I just saw it in a tank. It looks like a giant prickly slug. :-/

A bird under the water. 

Aren't they pretty?

(Please don't ask how these sea lions are so much smaller than Woody. I don't  know. Lol!)

The pretty underside of a starfish 

These things looked like small creepy versions of that puffer fish in Nemo. LOL

Just some pretty things...

Very pretty jellyfish. With a reflection of daddy. 

And of course I couldn't leave without pictures of the mountains! ;-P

See that fluffy blurry thing right in the middle? That's the wind blowing snow around. 

Anyways, we had a good day:-) I got a replica of an arrow head in their gift shop and so did Bub and he also got a pyrite rock. Lol. Saxon got rock candy. 

Also, mama is doing fine as is the baby. ;-) 

I'll leave you with one more picture. ;-P

Pink mountains!! LOVE

Sunday Outfit #3

Today I wore a black maxi skirt from Target with a black and tan striped tank top I got from OldNavy. I put a tanish/greenish jacket thingy over it and wore brown shoes. Blush, brown eyeshadow, and mascara. My only jewelry was a simple necklace that I always wear :-)

My hair was halfway up and slightly curly. I wore my brown beret all day but I took it off and put my hair down when we got home and I didn't wanna put it back up. ;-P

Hobbit Trailers

The last (!!!) hobbit movie (Battle of the Five Armies) comes out in theaters on December 17th. I wish it came out earlier because the Hoops are going to be here around Thanksgiving and we SO wanted to see it together. But we'll get to watch it together some day. Anyways, we will go see it on Christmas as we have for the past two hobbit movies. I am SOOOO excited for it to come out but at the same time I'm really sad...it's the last one! :-( Anyways, here two different trailers for it. I love them both. They make me so excited to see the movie!!!

(And don't worry, they don't spoil anything.)
(*I'll also include links to the trailers incase they don't play on my blog*)

The link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSzeFFsKEt4

                                     The link:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVAgTiBrrDA

Cookies

(**When I first posted this the link for the cookies didn't work correctly. You had to copy and paste instead of just clicking it. Sorry about that! Hopefully it's fixed now**)

This is probably my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/dining/091crex.html?_r=0

The bread flour isn't necessary. I used normal and it worked out fine. Do do the cake flour though. :-) 

I like my cookies with not too too much chocolate chips and I like to bake them until they're crunchy and I'll usually eat one as soon as they're cooled enough to eat but they're my favorite about a day later when they're all crunchy. ;-P

Saxon helped me bake this batch. Sorta. Really he made a mess with the flour and tortured the dog. He wasn't terrible though. ;-)

Cool spatula, huh? ;-) I got it for mama from target. He wouldn't smile:-/

This is one of his favorite songs-Dive by Steven Curtis Chapman 

He preferred watching the music video that had a bunch of pictures of water things instead of dancing with me ;-P