Tom The Turkey was Terrific

Well I did it.....I prepared my first real Thanksgiving dinner. I don't think it was exactly how I imagined. I would have liked to have had some family there to partake as well. But despite that the turkey cooked wonderfully and the yams were great. Lucy (no surprise) only ate olives. Kya was in love with the food that was cute. Our friend Melissa joined us for dinner so that was nice to have someone else to share dinner with.
Okay that was that....just when I was so proud of myself. We went to a friends house for another Thanksgiving dinner tonight. She was an amazing cook....yes she blew me out of the water. Her yams consisted of three different colored yams that I didn't even know existed, and they were divine. So was everything else. The one thing that made me still feel good in a weird way was that Lucy didn't eat any of her dinner either. So I had something goind for me. It was a nice evening eating and getting to know new friends better.
Well my body wants me to shut down now...ta ta

I thought it was a great movie

Well today a friend of ours ask me to go see Twilight with her. I knew nothing about this movie, just that it really had a bunch of hype everywhere...TV, radio etc. But I have to say it was really well done and very intriguing. I wish Jeremy could have seen it too because he would have really liked it. It was a great love story and Iam completely hooked, now whether or not I actually read the books is one thing. I can't remember the last time I read a book (other then maybe the Book of Mormon). But I'm definitely going to see the next movie. So go see it everyone...it was good. Now I can't wait till "Australia" comes out next week.

Why can't they always be this sweet!

I love my children, but man sometimes they really wear me out. I don't understand....it's not like there are ten of them. Anyways, on Sunday night we like to walk down to the waters edge by our house and enjoy the peacefulness. I was able to take some fun picture of the kids too.

We also found some clue treasures that washed up on the beach....of course unfortunately none of it was going to make us rich. But Kya was excited to find a coconut and a few other really neat shells that we didn't see while we were in Monterey.

Well Wishes From Grassy

I had to show everyone this cute moment in our house. Of course we see Geckos running around alot here. Although they usually are so fast there is no way anyone can catch them. But apparently the little tiny ones don't move as fast. Kya was able to grab it easily, then Lucy had a turn and named it "Grassy". They wanted to keep it, although I just couldn't do that he was so cute so we let him go in the backyard.
The pictures aren't the best but you can still see the little guy.
I suppose we might have a special place for geckos in our hearts. Mine and Lucy's middle name "Cecile" means lizard.

Talk about being thrown off course

Okay, so we had a great fun trip to California and now we are back home trying to get back in the swing of things. I still feel unorganized here at the house. Im still trying to figure out what should go where so that I dont have to look at clutter everyday. So by now you are probably wondering where Im going with all this. Well I needed to go do some errands today around 12:15.....drove right by the elementary school and thought "hummm weird that the school bus if there so early". But I just continued on my way. Then about an hour later I returned home and as I was driving into my court I saw Lucy. She was sitting in the neighbors garage playing with the other kids. Then I saw Kya...I was way confused. They weren't suppose to be home until 2:30. Well long story short, it was a half day and they went home and found I wasn't there. I guess they hung out there for a little bit then decided to go to our neighbors house. I was so thankful to her for taking care of them for me. I felt horrible and a little stupid that I didn't know they had a half day. (would explain the bus I saw early at the school)
So tonight I got organized even more, so that these retarded things don't happen again. We are also going to go over a telephone lesson tomorrow so the kids can call me when this happens.