way better than the pilgrims' . . .

That's how i would describe our feast this past thursday. This is my mom:

And only she could fix thanksgiving dinner for 10, serve it all on her brand new back deck and do it all without a dishwasher, an ounce of stress or one word of complaint. She's pretty amazing.

(photo courtesy of my very talented sister-in-law, Katie Purnell)

sometimes i make things more difficult than they need to be

if i had cleaned this up after 2 weeks verses 4, it would have been a lot easier. . .

a post about posting

i cannot think of a single thing to blog today that would be funny without being t.m.i. especially for the world wide web.

so we have some traditions

i've always loved holiday traditions. trick or treating at halloween, calling our meal a feast at thanksgiving (because it always is - duh), the advent calendar before Christmas, opening stockings first, getting mad at mom for taking too many pictures Christmas morning, yeah - all of those. well i think if three years in a row doesn't make something a tradition then i, uh, then it, um, well it just DOES. so here is this set of october traditions:

making caramel apples with this guy (whose comments on my "mom skills" will have to be an entirely new post)
Creating a ridiculously original and time consuming jack-o-lantern (this was all husband man)

blowing everyone away with our artistic (haha-get it) halloween costumes. props to kelley for the inspiration.

and impulse buying vintage cowboy boots. hey they were a deal. i think. hey becca, "they're my i don't need a job, i don't need my dad, cause i've got new boots, boots."

And there we have it. Hope everyone had a great October. Here's to November!!!