Sticky Fingers

For Thanksgiving with both sides of our families I baked a Coca-Cola cake. While we were at Chad's parents house for their dinner I heard Chad's sister yelling at Kathryn to leave the desserts alone. I just assumed she was trying to eat too much dessert, which everyone seems to do around the holidays. But, when we got home and I went to cut myself a piece of cake I noticed a suspicious "trail" around the edge of the pan. So, here is Kathryn's "handiwork" on my cake. Nice.

Thanksgiving with Chad's family

We had our Thanksgiving meal with Chad's family on Friday instead of having 2 meals on Thanksgiving day. Our niece Kathryn's birthday is in November, so we gave her her birthday gift at Thanksgiving.

Here is Kathryn with her birthday gift from us.

Thanksgiving with my family

Here's our table all set for Thanksgiving dinner with my family.

Here is Roxy eating a small piece of turkey we let her have. Sandy was hiding from all the people in the house, so she didn't get any turkey.

Our First Turkey

This is the first Thanksgiving that Chad & I actually cooked the turkey for our Thanksgiving dinner. We have hosted the meal at our house the last few years, but this is the first year we cooked the turkey too. I must say it turned out very well and we were very pleased!

Here is Chad about to put the turkey in the oven.

Here is Chad carving the cooked turkey.

My crazy husband/turkey carver

Here is Chad playing around with the netting that came around the turkey and the carving set.

Planting Flowers in the Dark

I had a Partylite candle party on Nov. 18th and all my spring flowers were dead and gross looking so I wanted to plant some Pansies before the party. We had so much to do the day before the party and since it's getting dark outside at like 5pm we ended up planting the flowers in the dark. Thankfully I have a wonderful husband who is willing to do that with me and he borrowed a light from his parents that helped us actually be able to see the plants.


Unfortunately a few days after we planted the Pansies they got eaten up by slugs (I think), hopefully they'll recover and bloom some more.

Double Decker Cats

Here is Sandy on the lower level (underneath the pew)

and Roxy on the upper level (on the pew).

Beautiful Wrightsville Beach

Wrightsville Beach is beautiful all year long - even in November!

I think this is my new favorite picture we've taken at the beach.

We're a cat family

Chad & I went to Wilmington for the weekend Nov. 9-11 and we saw both of my grandmothers and their cats. My family have always been cat people, so here are some of the other cats in my family.

My Mom's Mom has Sweet Pea.

My Dad's Mom has her cat Daisy.

Roxy's Cadbury Egg

Cadbury Eggs are now available at Christmas time as Cadbury "ornaments", so I love Cadbury Eggs and I bought two - one for me and one for Chad. Well, I come home one day and only see one Egg - I just assume that Chad ate his until I see the missing egg unwrapped on the floor by the stairs! Roxy got the Cadbury Egg off the counter AND unwrapped it and tried to eat and/or play with it. I'm sure you can't see from this picture, but there are teeth and claw marks all over the egg.

Here's the wrapper - almost in one piece!

Our pumpkins all lit up

Here are our pumpkins with candles lit inside - it's hard to see the actual pumpkin in this picture, but you can see how the light shines through the carving at least.

Halloween costumes

I put on my cat ears for Halloween.

Here are our nieces in their costumes - Kathryn is a pirate and Karissa is a princess.

Another family visit

My mom and grandmother were in town this past weekend for my grandmother's birthday. Here is me, my brother Fielding, my mom and my grandmother at her birthday dinner.

Here's the sandcastle pound cake I baked for my grandmother's birthday.

The finished products

Here are our carved pumpkins. Mine is the one with stars and Chad's is the UNC one.

Here are the carved pumpkins on our porch.

Chad's pumpkin snack

Chad gets a "snack" of pumpkin seeds and slime.

Carving Time

Chad & I get to work carving our pumpkins.

Time to sniff the pumpkin

Sandy & Roxy check out one of the pumpkins.

Here is our pumpkin!

Here's one of the pumpkins we got for Halloween.

Going to the Pumpkin Patch

The Pumpkin Patch

We went to Hodges Dairy Farm to get a pumpkin to carve for Halloween. This is one of the few working farms left in our area, so it's nice to support a local farm.

Sandy wants to work out too!

Sandy wanted to stretch with Chad after we came back from walking around our neighborhood.

Here I am doing a pilates video while Sandy watches and tries to participate too!