Thanksgiving was awesome.



We had quite the feast.

There was plenty of laughter and memories made and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. The only thing I didn't enjoy too much was A&M's loss to Texas, but that's okay. We beat them the last two year's in a row and they are pretty good this year. We were lucky to have scored a touchdown on them. After the first few quarters of the game (when we realized it was pretty much over), we ordered some beers and began to drown away our feelings of the game. After roasting a pig all day (and kicking Charlie's butt in washers AND koknockers) it didn't take very long. In fact, we were in such high spirits when we returned home from the bar that someone decided to play a nice trick on me. If you recall, I am DEATHLY afraid of roaches. One of my older sisters had neatly placed a fake one on the kitchen floor right next to my foot (and after drinking a few Shiner Blonde's this was an easy task to get away with) and turned my attention towards it. I did a little shuffling of my feet in a minor freak out manner, then proceeded to run out of the room begging for someone to "kill it!". On my way out the door to safety I heard the living room fill with laughs, it was then I knew the roach was fake. I couldn't help but laugh at myself. I laughed so hard I cried.

Another great thing about the break, other than being with family, was that I got to spend some time with my nephews. Those three boys are wonderful and are so because of their parents. I hope they know how lucky they are to have the mommy and daddy that they do!

However, now that Thanksgiving is over and December is upon us, it is officially the Christmas season! I have already made two batches of Peanut Butter Squares (it wasn't supposed to be two until I accidentally dumped WAY too much brown sugar in the mix and was forced to double the recipe) and added 99.1 and 107.3 to the presets on my ihome and Randy's car radio. I LOVE Christmas! To quote from a previous post, I have a slight obsession with it. Me and Jordan went grocery shopping the other day and outside of the Kroger's they were setting up their Christmas tree display. Jordan let me walk through the trees so I could get a good whiff of the piny scent. I wanted one, but decided that buying a $30 tree for only a week just for the smell wasn't such a good idea. Someone should make a Christmas tree candle, I would buy so many of those and burn them year round!

Now, I must be patient. The advent season has begun. I have started to pray my advent Novena at night in preparation for the birth of our Lord. For the next week I will be waist deep in a sea of books and deprived of sleep. Come December 10th, I will officially be a Junior in college (since I am a semester behind) and ready to spend my 40 day (yes, that's right, 40 DAYS!) holiday break doing absolutely nothing! Until then I'll be listening to my Holiday music, including this one, which is my all time favorite and makes me cry EVERY time I watch this movie.

Happy...oh screw it...MERRY Christmas!