Unexpectedly Somewhat Awesome Thanksgiving

Just as work and school ended, and as we happily looked toward our Thanksgiving break, Connie came down with a nasty flu bug. I was wondering about H1N1, but Dr. Connie ruled out that differential after reading about its symptoms on Web.md. It's her new favorite website whenever someone gets sick. Unfortunately she acquired a monster cough the day before Thanksgiving. That night we hit up Walmart's pharmacy pulling every cold/cough/flu drug known to man. Despite being pumped with dextromethorphan, we had to cancel our invite for Thanksgiving dinner. Connie was quite upset thinking as though she ruined Thanksgiving for the both of us. Little did she know, the best/fastest Thanksgiving dinner was just around the corner. We started the morning off with our 2nd annual turkey pancakes breakfast. As you can see the first few came out looking more like elephants, but after a handful I started to find my turkey groove. Since all we had planned to bring to our dinner was corn and olives, we had a little shopping to do. We decided to treat ourselves to food that we normally wouldn't buy, so we each picked out our own dessert, and these sweet Bertoli frozen entrees. As you can see prep time was a breeze, and our lovely dinner turned out fantastic. Both of our dinners tasted absolutely delicious, and the apple pie and fruit torte for dessert was simply divine.

Of course it's not a Thanksgiving break without an early morning Black Friday extravaganza. When we woke up at 3:15, Connie wanted to stay in bed. After a little convincing about keeping with tradition and hitting all the sales, we were out the door. Four hours later we were pulling back into our apt. complex with everything checked off our list. So all in all, an awesome Thanksgiving that unfortunately Connie wasn't able to fully enjoy.

Quantity - Definitely Not Quality

So Halloween came and went with little effort on our part. Connie's work again had their Halloween costume contest between floors. Connie's floor dressed up as Snow White and the "Twelve Dwarfs." Connie was Bashful, and with the help of my polo shirt, semi pulled it off. Needless to say, their floor didn't win.


Next came the Ward Halloween Party. Connie really didn't want to dress up, but I insisted. We googled "last minute Halloween costumes" and I came up with mine. Any guesses? (See below for answer). Connie went as a "One striped Zebra." Yeah, both were pretty lame, and nobody knew what we were.

Finally, there was the dental party with a bunch of the LDS couples in my class. Again I took an idea from the website and tweaked it just a bit. This one is a little more obvious, and everyone knew right away what we were. Of course it's always more fun dressing up together.

I'm not quite sure why we didn't carve pumpkins last year, but we did this year. All we had were steak knives, so the attempt at any detail was quite challenging. Con's definitely came out much better. We kept them on our patio and lit them up each night. Just the other day we noticed them wilting, and decided to launch them into the woods from our 3rd floor balcony. Connie made me go first. She then chucked hers out, and hit every tree branch possible making a whole fuss of noise. We jumped back inside giggling our little heads off.


Answers: 1. Refrigerator Magnet. 2. Chick Magnet