What's your favorite dish at Thanksgiving?

So what food are you looking forward to the most on Thursday?

The turkey? A favorite side dish? Dessert?

Growing up, my favorite part was always the stuffing. Since we've lived away from family for so many years, I've gotten use to cooking Thanksgiving dinner on my own. I make a mean mean stuffing!

This year will be very special since my parents have moved here to Idaho (event though only my mom will be here for Thanksgiving). Of course Suzi, Austin and baby Sasha will be here too. It's going to be so nice to have family close by again.

I love holidays and I love thanksgiving. I am soooo looking forward to the carbo load on Thursday.

Here's a fun Turkey day quiz I found! What part of Thanksgiving are you? It says I am mashed potatoes...

You Are Mashed Potatoes

Ordinary, comforting, and more than a little predictable You're the glue that holds everyone together.

What Part of Thanksgiving Are You?

Let me know what you are!

Abercrombie Kid

The first day we were in Portland, we went shopping.

Thank goodness for a REAL shopping mall. Boise has malls but nothing like what Portland has to offer.

Bryant has always been a good shopper... but now (at age 6) he's figured out that I want him to look nice and that means I'll buy him clothes if he goes shopping with me.

I'll admit that I'm pretty picky about what he can wear. No cartoon characters and no sweatpants with cuffs or elastic on the bottom. I like the trendy preppy look... or the athletic look.

So, imagine my great delight when we walked past the Abercrombie Store and Bryant wanted to go in! I was even more excited when I realized that he's now big enough to wear the stuff in the Abercromie kids store!



Bryant totally bought into the whole Abercromie vibe. He loved the loud music. He loved the clothes. He tried on each of the colognes they had for sale (yes he stunk by the time he was done). He thought he was one cool dude.

I told him he could buy one thing and he picked out an awesome shirt (you'll see it in a future post). He was so proud to carry his Abercromie bag around the mall.

There were two shirts he absolutely WANTED but I stayed strong said "no". Maybe Santa will have to bring them....

Thank the Good Lord that we don't have an Abercromie Kid's in Boise... or I would have to get a second job!

(and before all you naysayers start telling me about how Abercrombie "sells" sex, etc..., I don't care. I like their clothes and that's what I'm buying. Although the half naked sales clerks are nice too look at too :))

What the Heck? High Heeled Crocs are Cool???

I know... I suck at blogging these days!

We've been on a mini-vacation to Portland Oregon.

In the next couple of days I'll report on all sorts of fun stuff we've been doing... but right now I want to say a few words about Crocs...

I don’t know when or why it happened, but some time in the last few years people started popping up all over the place wearing orthopedic shoes. Brightly colored, rubber shoes called Crocs. And then they started sticking little decorations on them.

And then, gasp, I saw them being sold at Nordstrom when I was in Portland. What the heck???

Not only were they Crocs... but they were high heeled Crocs! They were EVERYWHERE in Portland. Try as I might to get my mom to put some on... she absolutely refused. The best she'd do is hold one while I took her picture.

Since when does the entire world give up fashion for comfort? Seriously, my grandma wouldn’t even be caught dead in those things... and that's saying something!

To quote one of my friends who saw the picture of my mom and the high heeled crocs,

"I don't care how comfortable those things are, I would rather walk home from the bar with 2 bloody stumps than even try these things on in stores."

Amen Sister!