Hey, it's almost 2011. Weird, eh?

We've survived the holidays so far....

Meghan turned 14 and we still let her live here. :0) Mostly she's a good kid, just going through the "I'm fourteen, so I'm braindead" phase of her life. But, we'll survive it, I'm sure. We didn't have a huge celebration, Ry and Sue were here and we had a party with some friends.

On Christmas Day, we tried, unsuccessfully, to eat ourselves to death. We had a huge Christmas dinner with three other families, we fried two turkeys, smoked one and cooked a huge ham. THEN, as if that wasn't unhealthy enough, we had fried potatoes, fried sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and au gratin potatoes as side dishes. I did make green beans, but really, who wants green beans when there are au gratin potatoes? We're still eating leftovers and we're totally sold on the turkey fryer thing. I don't even LIKE turkey and I thought it was good.

We got family gifts of a Wii and a new television, so mostly Meg got presents under the tree(her brother sort of went overboard). She got a new iPod, so that was the highlight of the day for her, I'm sure. Sam and I put a bow on the TV and he pretended to be surprised when he opened the Wii. Mostly it was nice just all being here together, we miss the kids when they're in AZ.

Last night, my Jordanian friend Salah made us an epic feast of middle eastern food. Amazing yummy food, best thing I ever did was let that guy live here for a bit. Tonight, we took Sue out for her first taste of Thai and had another epic feast. I think I'll stick to lettuce the rest of the week.

Ryan and Sue are on their way home now...... I sure wish they lived closer. Everyone cross your fingers, toes and anything else that he can get into law school in CA somewhere. Otherwise, they might be having my grandbabies in some other state, which would be tragic.

We STILL have extra people here..the plan now is that they will be leaving right after New Years. I hope so...I'm anxious to get my house back.

We're off on a roadtrip tomorrow to ....actually, we don't know...haven't decided. Apple is closed until the 3rd, so Sam is off this week. We're gonna look at a weather forecast and find someplace where it isn't raining.