Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was FABULOUS. The best since I've been married and fixing. We got together with our good friends, Jan and Victor Bryson, and split the menu in half.  I also invited my friend Tammy from school to join us.  Jeff and Victor brined and then fried the turkey which was delicious!  I love cooking from scratch. I made cranberry cherry relish, garlic mashed potatoes, fresh sweet potatoes, green bean casserole with fresh green beans, and pumpkin pie from our Halloween pumpkins. My favorite was the pecan pie, which turned out great. This year I made my own pie crusts which were kind of a pain, but well worth it! We ate around 1:30 pm and then had invited Jeff's in-town siblings to come for dessert and game night. We had a blast. We played games until 11 PM! We missed Beth and Richard because Warren was sick. It was a great time.

This afternoon was the Bryson's little girl's birthday party and Felicity's gift was a cake. I made a completely edible tinker bell tea kettle cottage with tree branch, log, for-get-me-nots, awning, leaf-roof, and with beautiful edible foliage all around the base. It has to be my favorite so far! The girls had a blast dressing up at the party and then they watched the new Tinkerbell movie. I have so many things left to do before Christmas! I think maybe we'll start decorating the house the first weekend of December.

In the Beginning

I'm embarking on a new adventure!  Inspired and encouraged by my sister-in-law Tracy, I've decided to begin a family blog to chronicle the adventures of the Davidson family.  I hope that this blog will serve as part of my contribution to my own family history; that it will be part of the legacy that I leave my posterity.  I want to share our lives with those we love and those who just wander in and out of our lives.  I want my children to be able to look back on the pages that will be written and remember a life of love with good times and hard times.  I want them to enjoy the pictures and reminisce about their adventures and share with their loved ones what their childhood was like.  I hope that they are able to feel the love that I have for them through its pages.  I want them to remember that Love is [was] Spoken Here.

So I'm getting really excited about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. I have all my recipes together and I've done my shopping. Maybe I'm mostly excited about only having class on Monday and Tuesday. I checked my planner and I only have two weeks of classes left, including the coming short week. I can't believe it! I bought my cap and gown on Friday and picked up my tickets for graduation; it's really happening, finally! I'm very proud of myself, and I'm grateful for my beloved husband who has really stepped up to the plate and taken over the house while I'm at school. I almost feel a little jealous. Last week I came home and he had baked home-made bread from our food storage, then this morning he made tortillas. I take comfort in knowing it won't be forever! I have to start looking for a job and preparing to take my Arizona educator's exam. I'm already registered for a teaching certification program at Pima Community College which will be done online in the evenings for A LOT less than the master's program the University of Arizona offers. Jeff is registered for classes at Pima for the spring semester.

I have been diligently working on home-made Christmas gifts and have sewn eight crayon keepers as well as a baby blanket and some other things here and there. I'm trying to stay busy!