We had a fabulous meal today! On the menu was: turkey, stuffing (my parents make this amazing stuffing with red wine and sausage, I wait for it all year long!), gravy, whole wheat flax rolls, garlic mashed potatoes, pineapple sweet potato casserole, creamed cabbage, deviled eggs, and cranberry-orange sauce. Everything was delicous!

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Some friends called this morning to let us know they’d be in Floyd today, so we got together.  The last time we saw Rheaghan and Lucas was at his baptism over three years ago.  Here were Killy and Lucas then (with their daddies):

And here they were today!

And it was wonderful to meet Aurora for the [...]

Today we went to pick out a Christmas tree.  I’m so excited, now that we live in Virginia again we can go pick and cut our own tree and its crazy-cheap!  ($15 – I’m sure my Kansas friends are burning with jealousy!)  We had a wonderful time at the tree farm:

And tonight we had a [...]

Its shaping up to be a pretty intense day!  Between last night and this morning, I’ve made: bourbon pecan pie, the dough for flax whole wheat rolls, cranberry-orange sauce, deviled eggs, garlic red-skin mashed potatoes,  and sweet potato-pineapple casserole.  All I have left to do is make the rolls, let them rise, and bake them, [...]

We had a lovely Thanksgiving Day today, to be followed by Part II tomorrow.  Today we went over to my parent’s house to watch the parade on television and had a spaghetti lunch with them, then this evening we went to Grandmommy and Pop-Pop’s house and had Thanksgiving Dinner there.  Everything was delicious as always!  [...]

Here’s some pictures of my latest quilting projects…

David and I’s favorite is the one I made tonight, using the batik fabrics I bought a couple weeks ago:

I’m playing around with different binding techniques and I’m still not settled on any that I like better than the way I was doing it originally, which was what [...]

I’ve decided in a last ditch effort to stop the obesity threatening to take over my body to take up running. (Okay, I realize I might be being a touch melodramatic, I guess gaining 10 lbs that makes my size four jeans a bit snug doesn’t really qualify as obesity…)  I’ve never enjoyed running, even [...]