Best seats in the house

Someone I know has a loving wife that got him seats to tonight's vikings game in the 1st row in the end zone for his birthday! Now that's a birthday gift! If she could have only included a vikings win...Anyways, we saw him on TV and thought he would like to see how cool he looked. Sorry to say, the loving wife that bought the gift didn't make it on TV.

For those of you who are not quite sure...No he is not the one with the painted face.

Curoivie

So I decided to try my hand at the old family Curoivie recipe this year. I think they turned out pretty good. Well, aside from the fact that I only had green sprinkles (No those are not chives Paul)and target only had 3 cookie cutters and they were not especially festive. Now that I think about it I think those sprinkles were a wedding present. I knew they would come in handy sooner or later. Thanks Sis.

I did get a little tired of cutting cookies towards the end so I decided to expedite the process a little.

And wouldn't you know it, the "Jedi Master" had to send me a box in the mail to show me how it's supposed to be done. (Which I REALLY appreciate). No kidding, Erin went out to get the mail while I was making these and they were there. That's some timing.

Thanksgiving in Minnesota

We just got back from a Thanksgiving trip to Minnesota, and when I say "just got back" I mean two weeks ago. We had a great time visiting everyone, only wish we had more time to visit and catch up. It seems like there is never enough time for that. The grandkids made good use of their time anyways. Got in some great eating, played some Wii, talked a few old men into playing football even though they would regret it for a few days afterwords, and even took some time for a picture. Notice the uncooperative one on the bottom right. This was the best one I could find.

We also had a few days to visit up in Alex and got in some QT with Grandma, PAul and Sonja.

Some of the younger cousins were smart and spent most of thanksgiving day hiding out with all Alondra's great toys. (sorry this picture is out of order but if I tried to fix it it would only make things worse. I hope you can forgive me.)

Took advantage of some of the time at grandmas to raid her craft station.

Painting?

Painting.

Painting!

And....a little mac n cheese

It's not hard to figure out who was Avery's buddy this trip.
We had a great time visiting. Thanks to Bro+12 for the great turkey, I wanted to eat about 3 more plates full but I held off. It was great to see everyone and we will see you again soon.

"Make Like a Tree and Get Out of Here."

Campaign "Fun Facts"

I just read part of a Newsweek article that talks about the inside stuff that happened during the campaign. I saw this quote and laughed out loud. I figured you all would like to read it.

The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."

I love our new President!

Here is a link to the full article if you want to read it.

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