Pizza and Pumpkin Pie

This week was Thanksgiving. It was a different Thanksgiving because Daniel and I have never done the Thanksgiving thing  on our own. We've always celebrated with family. Someone else was in charge of organizing who brought what for Dinner. Usually, we were in charge of helping some one more professional with a dish for the meal.

We decided that, instead of trying to make a 'traditional' Thanksgiving for two by ourselves, we would rather have pizza. We planned our menu and bought a frozen pizza for our Thanksgiving dinner. Because a 'traditional' thanksgiving meal is based on what is harvested in the North East in the fall, we decided we could pick whatever we wanted to eat. But, since we are American we couldn't have a Thanksgiving without something traditional so we made mini pumpkin pies. We decided that it would be best  They turned out to be tasty, but some of them didn't want to come out of the muffin tins we baked them in. All in all, we had a lovely meal!

We decided to skip all the Black Friday madness, but I did order Daniel a new white shirt online. That seemed safer than going out and physically fighting someone for stuff. I stayed safely at home for most of the day; we did go to the grocery store to get some things to eat this week. We also decided to run down to the temple for the 5:00 session. It was a longish drive, but it was a fun date for Daniel and me!

Almost Thanksgiving?

So, I am late posting our blog post this week. It has been a pretty calm week here in Texas. The weather has been nice all week though. It hasn't gotten too hot, and one day this week it rained. We got over a half an inch; it was really exciting to get so much rain in one day! This is one of the biggest rain storms we had in the six months we lived here. We are still 12" in deficit or something like that, but we will take all the rain we can get.


Daniel has been able to leave work at reasonable times this week so we've been able to spend time together, but we haven't been on too many adventures this week. We did check out the outside mall near our house to do some browsing. We also stopped by Tiff's Treats. I had an ice cream sandwich with fresh cookies, and Daniel had a large brownie. Besides that, we've mostly stayed at home, but it has still been fun. We bought a pineapple at the store for a dollar this last week, and it was really tasty. It was so tasty in fact that we bought another one this week!

We are both in the play that our stake is putting on for Christmas. We had play practice on Saturday, and Daniel had to go yesterday because he has a speaking part. He was there for two hours. I didn't have to go because I'm just in the choir.

I also can't believe that this next week is Thanksgiving. It is kind of crazy that is basically here.  I did get some canned pumpkin at the store, so we now have everything we need for pumpkin pie! We are excited to take the vacation day as well, and plan to have a good time.  I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving too!

Ctrl-Alt-Delete

Elissa put me (Daniel of course) in charge of the blog this week, which means that it'll probably be really concise because I don't know how to write any other way. Meanwhile, she's headed to the book club that she started up a while back. This is the first time they've met so we're hoping that it goes well and people will want to keep participating.

This is probably going to be sort of boring since things have calmed down here a lot and there's no pictures again -- since my laptop died we haven't had a way to upload pictures from our camera. But don't worry, we'll be getting that all sorted out soon and then we'll be able to have exciting pictures again.

Probably the most exciting thing that has happened this week is that the control-alt-delete guy, yes, ladies and gentlemen, David Bradley, came to speak at work. I almost had him sign my keyboard, but figured he'd be busy and that it's a Dell, and he's kind of an IBM man. He was actually really interesting and funny. Of course, maybe he's only funny to nerds, but I liked it.

Also, we got to eat out with a bunch of people from the ward. We got a new Elder's Quorum president recently and he wanted to get a chance to get to know people better so he organized an unofficial activity where we met downtown and all had dinner together. This was even fun after we got downtown and realized that the place we thought had free parking was kind of expensive (and we like to save money where we can) so we drove down the narrow city streets (which other people probably don't think are too bad) looking for a decent parking space and got really stressed out but finally found a spot. I'm definitely glad that we live in suburbs so I don't have to deal with that all the time.

No Sleep for the Weary

This week has been the last week of Daniel's class. Wednesday Daniel decided that he just needed to get some serious work done, so he would stay a little late. A little late turned into 5 in the morning. Since he came home so late, we decided to sleep in later in the morning. I decided to get up and make breakfast cake. (I also told Daniel that it wasn't a reward for staying out late!) Either way this is just the climax of Daniel's recent crazy work schedule. Hopefully we get in some sleep this weekend!

Because of Daniel's work, we haven't done much that is different or exciting this week. We did go to the grocery store, and for the last few weeks, I've ended up getting something for free because of a "buy this, get that for free" sale. Two weeks ago it was free eggs (which I needed already) and this week it was free Chex mix for buying potato chips (I was buying the potato chips already). Getting something free just for buying something you were already planning on is super fun!

I was late posting this blog because yesterday Daniel had to go to play practice. He got cast as Nephi in "The Savior of the World." He has a few lines that he gets to give. It is kind of cool! I'm sure he'll do a great job.