Yes, Yes, we know the Colts beat the Ravens this past weekend(at least it wasn't a complete slaughter). I know-scoreboard baby. We still enjoyed watching the game at our old neighbor's house up in Parkton MD. We haven't seen them all summer so we decided to get together for an early Thanksgiving dinner. They are having Thanksgiving dinner with their next door neighbors, and so are we, so an early dinner seemed to work best. We also brought Cookie along for a visit and to enjoy romping in their big yard. As a matter of fact, we didn't see the kids all day. They went off exploring in the woods and the streams and visiting the nearby horse farm. And Tom and our old neighbor Barry enjoyed the football game in peace. We then all sat down to a fantastic dinner and dessert. I don't know if I am going to survive this week with all the dinner parties.
We got ourselves invited to our neighbor's house for dinner(yeah I don't have to cook Thursday). I had offered our house up to all the neighbors to come for dinner but most of them made other plans with family, so it just came down to us and our neighbors Dan and Gloria. So I will have more time to enjoy the Macy Thanksgiving Day parade and then we will have to catch the Lions game.
I didn't get out of cooking completely. We invited Matt and Di over for dinner on Saturday. We want to meet their new dog-Winston-a wisla. Their first dog died earlier this year of cancer, so they have been in mourning. They babysat Cookie a couple of times for us this past year which seemed to be good therapy for them, but now they have a replacement puppy-9 months old. I hope Cookie and Winston get along. Winston already looks pretty big. They are a hunting dog and look a bit like tan colored pointers. I'd like to see if we could all go see the Christmas Carol movie-I heard it was good.
And Friday is Scott's birthday! He will be the big 10 year old. We have a party scheduled for him in two weeks at a local indoor pool. I am not sure what we will do with him on Friday, but it will probably involve opening gifts and eating Egg Nog ice cream(one of Scott's favorite).
Last Friday I had to go into work for a few hours for an out patient Open House program. I was in charge of the food so I had to run to Sam's Club and pick up a designer cake along with cheese and crackers and punch supplies. Sam's bakery makes cakes and prints a logo or photo on your cake so Tom printed up a colored work logo for me and dropped it off last weekend with my order. We had to search out a different Sam's Club than I usually shop at since the local Sam's had a broken camera that takes the photo to put on your cake. Thank goodness another Sam's club was nearby since I promised to bring in the designer cake. It was still so much cheaper than getting catered food from work. So the Open House worked out well and we had some visitors that made our new boss happy. And she was grateful for all our help, including my Martha Stewart skills(flowers on the table matched the colors of the cake, plates, tablecloth, etc). We also had a few raffle prizes which gave it the extra touch. But after finishing up with the open house, I had to run home and empty out my van so I could take Allison out with 5 of her old elementary school friends for a New Moon/Twilight movie night. Everyone told me to get tickets early which I was glad that I did. We had tickets for the 430pm movie and we had great seats and 30 mins to spare to buy popcorn and take potty breaks. By the time we came out of the movie, the theater was packed with women all waiting to see the movie. It looked like a Vera Bradley conference! Since we finished early, we headed out to CiCis pizza buffet which some of the girls had not yet experienced. They thought it was wonderful-and right in their budget. Then Allison had a friend sleep over that night. All in all a very full day. Tom on the other hand got to spend Friday night with a room full of screaming cub scouts at their pack meeting. Scott said the played fooseball inside.
Saturday I finally had time for my haircut! And Allison switched her piano lesson to Saturday afternoon so she would have free time for her Twilight party on Friday afternoon. We also caught the DVD release of Up-very cute. I loved the quad cane with the tennis balls.
And glad to say we are all getting pretty healthy. Scott just had his H1N1 flu shot at school and we all seem to be getting over a cough/cold.
So Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Congrats on your hospital nursing externship Stacey! And Congrats on your new home purchase! The house looks great! When will you and Matt be able to move in? We just refinanced our place-taking advantage of low interest rates too. Our house payment did not change, but we knocked off four years on our mortgage. Every bit helps!
We will certainly miss the Seitz Family Thanksgiving this year! Last year we visited Indianapolis for Turkey Day. We walked in a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day and Scott carried a sign that said it was his Birthday since it landed right on Thanksgiving Day last year. Scott was a bit embarassed I think that everyone was paying attention to him and singing Happy Birthday! They even took photos of him and honked their car horns! We all enjoyed a wonderful dinner from Mom and Dad Seitz who came up from Florida, and then we visited with Tom's cousins who live around the corner. It was a fun visit. We will also miss pulling Touch Down Turkey's neck and hearing him gobble! Looks like the Indy Seitz family will be busy entertaining other family members this year.
Tom has already been busy stringing lights(LED of course) all over the house. He is taking advantage of some nice weather. He needed to rehang hooks from the roofline since we had the flashing wrapped this year (no more painting wood trim). The workers took down all Tom's hooks for the icicle lights under the eaves. After he rehooked the lights, he had to pick up a few more strings of LED lights for the shrubs. He is still definitely ahead of the game, but not quite so far ahead as some of our neighbors. We have houses in the neighborhood that already put up all their outdoor Christmas lights and have them turned on, and even put up the Christmas trees! What. no Turkey Day! Oh well, we are at least waiting for SCott's Bday on Friday.
So Happy Thanksgiving and don't eat too much! Kathleen and family