Ginger started off Thanksgiving by drawing a turkey on the back porch. Way to get into the spirit G! I was catching up on the blog, G’ma Sue was playing with the kids and Dar was busy making green bean casserole and candied yams until we left for Tara and Curt’s house.
Tara cooked the turkey breast side down and then flipped it for browning near the end. It’s supposed to be more moist that way. It looked and smelled delish! I couldn’t wait to pick it all apart, that’s my favorite part of T-day. I know, I know it’s weird but I’m a vegetarian who loves picking the meat off the turkey.
I’m happy to say that I didn’t overdo it, I only had one plate. Yeah, it was a rather large plate, but I stopped at one. Go Me! I only went over my usual calorie intake by about 400 calories.
Dar was taking it slow and steady.
After the fantastic meal, we busted out Quelf!
Quelf – The unpredictable party game that gives random a new name. It is easy to play. Just pick a character, roll the die and move your character around the game board. As you land on different colored spaces, you’ll have to complete cards form five different categories. As the game progresses, crazy things start to happen and when the dust settles, the laughing finally stops and someone crawls away the winner, you realize you’ve never had this much fun playing a game in your life. Contains: 440 cards in different categories 1 awesome Quelf game board 1 pad of paper and player guide 1 die and 1 thirty-second timer 8 character game pieces 1 giant invisible harpoon
Here’s a visual representation of the events that followed the beginning of the game.
Pie Break!
Back to Quelfing.
Most of that was because of the game. You gotta try it, it’ll leave you in stitches… or under a table, wrapped in toilet paper, dancing like a chicken, having a war between your own thumbs… I think you get the idea.
Dar asked Ginger to circle five items in the target catalogue that she really wanted for Christmas. G hit her five item limit on the top half of the first page. Did she stop there? Let me just say that I’m surprised her pen didn’t run out of ink.
After dinner and bath we took the kids to Auntie’s house and opened the door just enough to shove the kids inside and slam it before peeling away. That’s not completely true, it actually felt weird to know that we weren’t gonna see them for the rest of the night. It was a real treat to be out together and not have a screaming boy that we can’t feed fast enough. We both tried stuff that we’ve never had before and it was a success!
The Boy started getting restless when we ran out of fruit so I took him outside. I can’t have him screaming in the restaurant, can I?
G is really good about remembering to change the calendar, she’s really looking forward to T day. We keep it on our pantry door and G drags a kitchen chair over every day to move the leaf to the current day. She’s so cute!
I finally got around to hooking up the 
She called someone at Labor & Delivery and they told her the only thing that they could tell her, which was to come in. Matt came rushing in, thinking that the situation was really serious (miscommunication) and Dar decided to go get checked out. I stayed home with the kids while they went to the hospital. Luckily everything was okay but she was told to keep a watch on it and to come back if it happens again. I’m pretty sure it’s a blood pressure thing. She’s been having some pretty strong contraction and her feet are swollen like water balloons, that paired with the dizziness and blurred vision makes for a pretty miserable last month of pregnancy. We’re both looking forward to this baby entering the world.
We had some apples that were about to go bad so we decided to make something with them. We’ve done this once or twice before and it’s so simple and turns out great so we gave it another shot. To make apple leather all you do is blend cored and washed apples and then dehydrate them. Simple.
G is a great kitchen helper, she loves cooking and eating what she’s made. She had some trouble getting the melon-baller started. BEST WAY TO CORE APPLES!!!… wait… I could have used the little do-hickey we have that cores and slices in one move. Dang it! Oh well. It was fun this way. The apples would have blended faster if they were cut up smaller too… next time.
Our dehydrator only has one tray for making fruit leather but we had three trays worth of apple sauce so we improvised. I used freezer paper/wax paper and cut it to size. It worked okay but peeling it off was a bit of a pain. Saran wrap would have peeled off better but I’m not sure how I would have cut it to fit. I guess it wouldn’t have to fit exactly… I don’t know. I’ll figure it out next time. Either way it was yummy! Doesn’t it look like pumpkin pie filling?
Tara and Curt came home today from their 
Bleu Cheese Herb Mustard for me. Bleu Cheese? YUM! Mustard? YUM! I’m gonna have to give this a try right away!
G got a really cute hand-made hair bow with a little purple princess crown in the middle of it. G loves hair accessories and she LOOOOOVES purple!!!
Tara brought a book for The Boy that covers Texas’ history and land marks. Couldn’t have given Brigham a better present, The Boy loves to eat books!
And she even bought a gift for our little baby-on-the-way. See you in early Dec baby girl. It’s a diaper cover that has a Christmas tree made of ribbon on the booty. RUFFLE BUTT!!! Yeah, yeah, I know, you’ll get pictures.
Fencing kicked my butt tonight. I that guy from Mexico again and he pummeled me. I love fencing, it’s a serious cardio workout that you don’t have time to think about because you’re so focused on making attacks and parrying. My legs are gonna be sore tomorrow, I can feel it in my calves already… I should probably stretch… nah.
There is a long-standing tradition in the Cotton household of giving super sweaty hugs. If I didn’t keep up the tradition, what kind of man would I be? Dar knew what was coming, it’s a good thing she loves me.
While I was in class G wrote me a precious note. I love that girl! Dar helped her spell “for daddy” but the rest is all G.
