Thanksgiving, 2008

How is this for a Thanksgiving picture????? This is poor little Sandra Dee. She is a little perturbed, and a whole lot tired! 9 dogs and 16 people in your house will do that to a little dachshund. It will do it to a couple of grown-ups (me & Karl) too! We survived Thanksgiving, but wow, are we ever tired.
On Wednesday evening everyone gathered at our house for appetizers and fun.....then again on Thursday for the real food! We always bake a turkey .....simply because we use that meat for sandwiches and I HAVE to have the drippings for my dressing. Dressing, that I must say was THE BEST I have ever made.....all of the turkey drippings, cups of fresh celery and sweet onions, mounds of fresh cornbread, and my two secret ingredients......hot sausage and portobello mushrooms. Ummm Ummm Good! However, back to the turkey...it was definately the Fried Turkey that was the best. It is the most flavorful and the most moist turkey meat ever. If you have never fried a aturkey----get to it. The turket fryers are all on sale and so are the birds.....you need a 12 pounder for best results. Go for it. Really.
On Thursday morning, I even convinced everyone to help put up the Christmas tree, especially Blake and Cory. Everyone had to at least put on 15 ornaments.....Ashlie, Tyler, Shelby and Jami, put on a million! Thank Heavens!
Even Karl was impressed to have the tree up and have it look so pretty. Later in the day we put up all the fall decor, and put out the Christmas things. I scaled back from what I usually do, but everything still looks so festive.




And, finally, I will show you our family picture of 2008. This is MY entire immediate family....(with a few extras --and a few furry ones!-- thrown in for good measure!!!)
On the back row: Kevin (my brother) My Dad, Blake --holding Copper (He is Shelby's friend), The Handsome Johnny Cash, oops I mean Karl Weaver, Tyler, Hunter-- holding Miss Ellie, Cory(Ashlie's friend)-- holding Peonie , Rance (Jami's friend),the second row is Madison (my niece) Shelby, My Mom, Me-- holding Bessie, Ashlie-- holding Paisley, Jami --holding Sandra Dee, and on the bottom row is Honey Bear, Sugar Bear and Sadie Monster.


HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE.
Thanks for reading.
XO
Laura

I Am a Terrible Blogger.

I am a terrible blogger. There. I admitted it.

I take countless pictures all week, intending to update the blog with dachshund antics, new fabrics, tales of Tyler and Jami, new recipes, fall decorations, purse parties and Open Houses at the studio...etc.... but time slips away and now it has been WEEKS (months?) since I last posted.

It is opening week of hunting season. My whole family will be in the woods at our hunting camp in the middle of the forest all week. Of course Ashlie, Shelby, Jami, Tyler and Hunter are only there some of the time because they have school....It is a fun relaxing week filled with crazy hunting stories, Jerry Clower jokes, and some of the best food in the world!

Oh, and did I mention rattlesnakes? Yes, rattlesnakes and bears. They are now a part of our Camp Week as well. (And Yes, there are pictures, but my camera is in the woods and I am at home for the next few hours----will try to remember it on Wednesday and add them to the posts!) Kevin killed a giant snake yesterday around 3:00. I cannot imagine walking in the woods and coming upon that thing! UGH! Even with the snake boots that we all wear, it would not have been enough if he had stepped on that monster... And as for the bear, he visits EVERYDAY----especially around 6-10pm.....he just walks right into the camp. Comes to visit I suppose. We scare him off, and he comes right back. A small bear, by bear standards. BooBoo. That is what we have named him. I feel bad for him, I am sure he wonders why Sugarbear and Honeybear (my parents dogs) get to be right up there with us, but we run him off.....he just wants to be our friend.?.?


And as for handbags, I do have new fabrics------an adorable pink and green flip flop fabric (PERFECT for Christmas presents!), more polka dots, a cute dachshund fabric, a new black and white----which I have been looking for forever......this one is really pretty. Oh yeah, even a new camoflauge! In honor of Hunting Season. Doesn't everyone need a camo handbag? Surely they do!

So, once again I am going to try to be a better blogger.
Wish me luck-
Thanks for reading!
Laura