Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, my computer is on it's last leg. It's been acting up tonight and then even more of the screen started acting up and now I can't see more than half of the screen. :/

I was going to post pictures but I can't see them to see which ones to post. Except for my stuffing picture.

We had a good Thanksgiving. Our friends Zac and Jocee and their 3 kiddos came over. We split the cooking and it all turned out so good.

I ended up with stuffing and gravy. I've made stuffing once before though. Since I didn't have any pan drippings for the gravy, I bought some turkey legs and roasted them and used those drippings. This was the first time I've made gravy...besides breakfast type gravy. And I have to give myself a pat on the back because it was good :) My stuffing turned out good too. I was pleased with the flavor. I made my gravy yesterday and my pies yesterday so all I made this morning was the stuffing and warmed up the rolls. I'm glad I did it that way, it made things easier.

David was going to deep fry a turkey but we realized the fryer was in storage in Preston so he had to smoke it instead. It turned out awesome! It had great smoked flavor and we put apple juice in the pan too. It was moist and beautiful. Once he smoked on in his other smoker (we used the electric this time) and the turkey was black as coal. This one was perfect in color.

Of course we have a lot of things to be thankful for this year. I'm thankful we've been able to watch Avery grow up and I'm super thankful for David's new job. It's made things so much easier and we're getting ourselves set up for a good future. It's really exciting. I'm thankful we have friends here in Salt Lake. It's made things nice to have a friend to hang out with.

Now I'm getting excited for Christmas. Ok, I was already excited. I'm so looking forward to when Avery is older and she enjoys Christmas! It's going to be so fun to see her on Christmas morning. I've been getting ideas for traditions we can do each year to help keep the season Christ centered. I'm really excited to implement them. I want Avery to grow up remembering family things like that.

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David thinks this is just totally gross :) She loves them though!

She liked the spaghetti!

The girl who lives below us stayed home from work today. I didn't know this until she decided to blast her music at 8:20 this morning. I'm positive it was because Avery and I were being too noisy. Oh well. Was I supposed to wake up knowing she was home? She blasted it until after 12. Thankfully you couldn't hear it in Avery's room so it didn't bother her sleeping.

I emailed my landlord asking him if he knew for sure when they're moving out. He said no. Bummer. I was hoping it would be mid December like the girl said but looks like it's going to be January. Ugh!

David's working late tonight so I'm going to go play with my girl.

Well, other than the lovely people who live below us, moving to Salt Lake has been AWESOME!! David's new job is such a blessing and the future is looking bright :)

II'm thinking it's about time to go to the doctor. I've been fighting this crud for 2 weeks now. David was sick a while ago and has a sore throat tonight. It's my ears and tubes that are hurting me though. I can't seem to shake it.

Avery's getting to be pretty rotten. We went to a new church on Sunday and I got paged to come to the nursery because she was hysterical. It was sad.

She's driving me nuts with the way she messes around when I feed her. She pretty much pulls everything out of the back of her mouth. She's a little finicky. I'll feed her something and then before she's done with it, she's acting like it's gross.

She's still sleeping horribly. That got old about 8 months ago.

Avery got a little tea pot and tea cups for her birthday and it's so cute because she'll take the pot and pour you some tea. It makes noises like it's pouring too. I think it's so cute. Every animal she sees a picture of she growls.

Well there's not really anything going on around here. I'm excited for Thanksgiving. I wish we had some fall decor but I'm on a strict budget so no extra spending. Some day...

No! You may not take my picture!

Ok, just one.

Must...get...computer...

Chick-fil-A

Cick fil A finally opened near my house and so Avery and I had to make an emergency stop there today! I just can't get over how big she is. Where'd my baby go?! Here she is eating some nuggets :)



She liked dipping her nuggets in BBQ sauce!

Grrr, last week when the girl downstairs and I spoke we had a...I don't know what you'd call it. We didn't fight, it wasn't really a "heated discussion" but it was maybe a slightly "heated discussion".

Basically the issue is she's mad they lost the driveway even though they knew it was coming. In fact, they rented the freakin' basement without the driveway. So, because she's mad about it she informed me that I could take out the trash in the mornings. They had been putting it out and I was putting it up. Ok, it doesn't really matter who does what. What makes me mad is she's only switching who does what because she is being petty since she's mad about the driveway. The trash cans are rigght by their door so they could still easily put the trash out. But I "can put them out since I have the driveway". Um, ok. So I asked her if they were going to put them up and she said if my car wasn't in the way.

This is where I got mad.

The discussion went downhill from there. I smarted off. She accused me of being mad for having to do my fair share. When I've been doing it all along...

Then she went on to say the she didn't think it'd be a big deal (switching the trash) since they were losing the driveway and she's never complained about the noise. Whuck? Who sent me those texts complaining about the noise then? So I reminded her that she has complained. More than once. She said I would too but since it's an old house she has understood. I would hate to see what she's like when she doesn't understand.

Anyways, so we've been putting out the trash. Well, we have three bins. One for trash, one for recycling and one for yard waste (branches, leaves, etc.). We put out the trash one and the yard one. They put up the trash one but not the yard one. Can a person be any more petty? When she accused me of being mad for having to do my share, since it's only fair she says. I told her I wasn't mad about doing my share I was mad that she was being petty. And THEN they do this. Really? Because you weren't technically the person who used that particular bin, you can't put it away? I would like to insert some not nice words here but I won't.

For the last 2 months, when she has complained, I have bent over backwards to comply and keep the peace. For the first 2 months we have left every Saturday and Sunday morning so as not to bother them. But of course they don't realize any of that. I have tried to be nice. David even said I was being too nice! Well, I'm over it. They. Need. To. Move.

I do not like those people, particularly the girl. She is so unpleasant. I wish I could turn back time and have never entered into her life. My life would be better for it. Come on January! They're supposed to be out by then!