Thanksgiving and Black Friday!

Marisa is enjoying the turkey leg! Her favourite part! We had a great Thanksgiving with my mom joining us from Ontario. It's good to have her here for 2 weeks.

Yes, I'm one of those crazy people who goes out shopping in the middle of the night. (It's all about efficiency - I get major bargains and a huge chunk of time without anyone bothering me.) I'm quite pleased with my loot! :-) I arrived at the outlet mall at 2am when most other shoppers were on their way home and then I headed to the Carlsbad mall at 6, then to the Christian bookstore, and Michaels. Home at 9. That's 7 hours of shopping. I think I'm done now. One of my best bargains was a Gymboree ski jacket for Marisa for $11.20.

From Pumpkin Patch to Pumpkin Stew

Look at my new pot! This was dinner last night - beef stew in a pumpkin.

I made beef stew and put it in a pumpkin to bake for an hour. Fun dinner.

Yet another pumpkin patch ...

Yet another pumpkin patch! How many pumpkin patches can we get to in just one October?
This is part of the playgroup that Lucas and Marisa have been in since Lucas was 2 months old. It'll be 7 years this month! We've gone to this pumpkin patch every October for the past 5 years. It felt like 90 derees out this day. Not right.