Happy Birthday to my favorite brother-in-law, John, Yesterday!!! I remembered it yesterday and I kept thinking I would get a chance to mention it on here last night, but unfortuanetly the chance never came. Sorry, John! I hope you had a great day... studying for finals... oh well, anyway... maybe we'll all do something fun to celebrate when you come back to Lima. =)

I arrived in Ohio at 6:20 pm on November 30th. I am happy to be home and very glad that all of my luggage made the trip, too. We had sort of a rough start of our trip because when we arrived at the Phoenix airport we were informed that we were only allowed to have 2 checked bags each, and I had 3. Every flight I have ever taken I have been allowed 3 checked bags, and I thought that I had flown Northwest before with 3, but apparently I haven't flown with them before. They were going to charge me 80 bucks for my extra bag, so I repacked at the airport and shoved the smallest suitcase into one of the bigger ones and stuffed it as full as I could get it, then had to stuff the remainder of my belongings into mine and Becca's carry on bags. (Some of her stuff was in my carry on bag to start out with... ) Anyhow, we all made it safe and sound and with all of our stuff in tow, so that's good.

Friday, Becca, Brandon, and I went to see Jess at the school where she teaches. We got to see Janessa and Faith, too. The two little girls then went home with Becca and baby Brandon to spen the afternoon before Becca headed up to Canada to spend some time with her family. She will be up there for three weeks.

I stayed at the school for a couple hours with Jess, helping her out with an art project for the kids. It was really alot of fun, and some of those kids are nuts!! She has to be insane for being a teacher!! Talk about wearing someone out!!! =)

Becca and Brandon made it safely to her parents despite some rather inclimate weather in Toronto. So far everything is going swell.

Mom's store is even more impressive in real life than it is on this blog, so it's really, really awesome!! I am very excited about it. I know that it is causing her alot of stress and no doubt quite a few headaches, but I seriously think that it is all going to be worth it in the end. =)

I will probably not be writing much while I am here in Lima, (busy... busy... busy...) but I will catch everyone up when I return to the land where things are dull. =)

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!!!

I hope everyone has a fabulous day and doesn't eat too much!!!! Don't make yourselves sick, remember, leftovers are almost as delicious as the actual meal!!

Love ya all!!!

Well, Thanksgiving is almost upon us. As this special holiday approaches, I am reminded of Thanksgivings past. This year will be vastly different for me than all the previous years, because I won’t be celebrating with my entire immediate and extended family.

This year I will be celebrating in Phoenix with Danny, Joanna, Josh, Becca, Zion, and all the kids. While I am looking forward to see how Zion’s family does Thanksgiving, I know that I will miss all my previous Thanksgiving traditions as well. I’ll miss uncle Vic’s prayer, Uncle Jim’s James Bond marathon, Melinda whipping us all in Dominoes, Aunt Deb’s noodles and Aunt Barb’s rolls…

Becca and I are attempting the noodles and rolls to try to recreate my aunt’s recipes… I’m not entirely sure how successful they will be, but they do look pretty good. My aunts have a little more experience than we do…

I’ll let you all know how this years goes, I just hope they have enough butter in the house for me….

Happy Birthday, Zion!!! I love you and I hope you have a great day!!! =)

Gone but not forgotten.

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