pre-thanksgiving

franks pre-k had a charlie brown thanksgiving party on monday. it was funny, because i had seen the flyer sent home and put it into my phone for monday at 2:15. then i talked to kim at the bus stop and she hadn't heard anything about a party for the pre-k crowd, but her 1st grader was having a party on tuesday. then i started doubting myself, so i went back to email and saw that the teacher had said it was tuesday, so then i texted kim and told her it was actually the next day. then when i dropped frankie off at school that afternoon, she told me she was so sorry, that she had sent me the wrong day on the email and it was actually on monday. sooo the story of my life. i confuse myself so much!

anyhow, monday morning my tagalongs came along and we met up with laura for some thanksgiving shopping. we were on a tight schedule because we had a vt appt at 11, and we totally made it right on time. then we went straight to drop franks off. then an dr's appt at 1, then straight home to pick up the popcorn for franks party, then to the charlie brown party, then home for pie baking.
 phew!

monday was beautiful so the man took advantage of that opportunity to put up the christmas lights, ahem, for the first time in a few years.

he wore an awesome camouflage one piece that was sooo hot! ;)

we sent addie off to gymnastics in the streeter gymnastics bus, we ate a quick leftover dinner, and then on to the marsh's for their pre-thanksgiving pie night. it was deeeelish. they had a pie contest that we did not win, but when i asked mrs. g's daughter which was her favorite, she said my chocolate chip pie, so that's a win in my book. ;)

(on a sidenote, at our actual thanksgiving pie time addie whispered in my ear "did we win this pie contest?" she's so cute:)

we stayed way later than we should have, but it was fun catching up with old friends and talking parenting, parents, holidays, and everything in between. i talked to some moms that know about planning daughters weddings (not for any reason, just cause i'm trying to mentally prepare myself for the time, in a few years when lexi gets engaged) and now that's been on my mind. we need to start a new savings account! and this chic does not like footie pajamas. takes them off and throws them out every time!

franks came down for breakfast one day in a whole lotta stripes and awesome hair.

the big excitement of tuesday was watching the progress of this little plane! a couple weeks ago lexi told me that instead of kimmy coming out to visit her, she was going to send lexi her buddy pass so lexi could come home for thanksgiving. i have a tendency to be cynical about some kids schemes, so i wasn't fully convinced it was gonna work, but it did! (ahem, so far)

she finally made it! and had to get online to register for another class. sniped ya!

she got home right before a group of lay-days headed out to visit charlene for her birthday. we had a nice visit and when i got home all the kids were acting strange and saying "you don't need to come in the family room, mommy!" lexi was going to paint the girls nails when, somehow, totally not lexi's fault, delaney got ahold of the nail polish, and, somehow, totally not lexi's fault, the bottle opened and, somehow, you get the picture.

i got home, googled how to remove nail polish from carpet, we watched a video, and i put them to work.

they did pretty good. the carpet is bad anyway, but at least there's not a bright red "v" there anymore. i told lexi when we get our new carpet she's not even allowed in.

on wednesday the big kids wanted to go visit the mccombs, and when the little kids heard that, they wanted to go too. so my crew piled into the jolly green and off they went!

it rained all.day.long, so i was glad the gang wasn't just stuck inside our house all day.

lexi ended up getting picked up by taylor and chris brought the girls home for lunch. i got a couple hours of quiet to do some google work, so that was nice.

sometimes it's hard being the littlest sister and not being able to play piano yet. this was after she'd played and sang "let it go" several times. but then mr. hyde couldn't find her "music," so she couldn't play. she's so fun right now!

wednesday also brought pre-thanksgiving prep. i was thrilled to be able to finally break into this giant 6 lb. can of green beans to make a delicious green bean casserole. ps -grocery auctions can make a girl buy some ridiculous things.

we also made another chocolate chip pie. i sent this to mt family gang to see if anyone else in the fam was doing the same thing, you know, somewhere out there style. they were not. there's just something i love about the thought of all of us doing the same thing even thought we're many miles apart. at least my little girls promised they'll make chocolate chip pie every thanksgiving.