Thanksgiving FunFest Begins

Today is the official start of the West/Trammell Family Thanksgiving Funfest 2009 Fun Run for the Cure (10 points for those who get that reference). We've got a jam packed schedule for the next few days:
Tonight- Eating family dinner, watching the Blind Side in the theater and then watching DVDs at home.
Thursday- Thanksgiving dinner, annual family get-together with our old family friends, the Winzenreads.
Friday- Shopping for the girls, hunting for the guys. Poker that night.
Saturday- Bedlam. I'm debating whether wearing a sombrero is in order.

The only bad news is that it's back to reality on Saturday evening. We'll be finishing the move and getting the old house cleaned up. It's times like those I wish I had a fast forward button.

As for this weekend, I wish I had a pause!

Rescue mission

It's 11 pm and I've been moving all day. I just sat down to bang out a real blog post, but just got a call from the parents who were on their way out of Stillwater. Seems Dad's truck lost all electrical power and they're stuck at the intersection of I-35 and Highway 51. So we're on our way out to rescue them.

This is so not the celebratory 30th consecutive blog post I had imagined.

Mother's Day

This is my mama, who I love very much. And as today is Mother's Day, I give you my tribute post. My mom is an amazing woman, very full of faith and love. In fact, she and my daddy still love each other after 35 years of marriage.

But they also love to have fun with each other. I'm hoping Mitch and I can have both these traits in our marriage.
People say we look just alike. I don't see it...weird.
My mom and I have lots of fun together as well. Our wedding photographer told us to put our heads together and look serene or something like that....this is what he got.

I love you Mom!

Pomp and Circumstance

My hubby graduated today. Hallelujah! He's been working so hard this semester to finish up on a good note, so I'm extremely proud of him.

His brother graduated too. This is an example of Mitch giggling like a little girl. Someone probably made fun of his brother. That someone was probably Mitch. My family came down too. I promise, we don't usually look this squinty.

They made us take embarrassing pictures too. Exhibit A:
Now if you will excuse me, I've eaten enough Hideaway pizza to kill a man. I need to go put on elastic pants and curl up into the fetal position.

Say a prayer...

The whole family of in-laws are in town, and I do mean the whole family. Both sets of grandparents, including Mitch's paternal grandpa who is 99% blind and wears jumpsuits and is just the sweetest.

They're all staying at a hotel, thank God, so I think things will move more smoothly this weekend than in weekends past when we've tried to navigate 7 people in 2 houses with bed space for 3 people.

But today's bestest news is that Mitch is done done done with school. Forever. No more! Now all we have to do is move, buy new furniture and find the hubby the job of his dreams. Sigh, better say another prayer for us!

T minus one week

In one week, Mitch will be graduating from college. I've waited a really, really long time for this, and I couldn't be more excited. He's got his second interview on Tuesday for an eye technician job at an optometrist's office, so that's even more exciting.

What is not all that exciting? Mitch's whole family is coming into town, and we still don't know where they're staying or what we're doing after the commencement ceremony. Ahh, stress!

The time we saw a basketball game...

Once upon a time, my dad got really ridiculously good seats for an OKC Thunder basketball game. Like really, really good.
Mitch was excited about the seats! Exclamation point!
We were close enough to see Kevin Durant hit about a bazillion shots in a row. He's crazy good. (That ball bouncing off the rim must be someone else's, because I really don't think he ever missed a warm-up shot.)
We were very excited...some of us more than others.
The Thunder lost, which is no big surprise, but it was one heck of a time. Thanks Mom and Dad! (look how cute my parents are....just adorable.)

30 days straight of blogging can really wear on a person, but it does give me a chance to rehash some memories, which is truly wonderful.

On the not wonderful side, however, I'm sick again. That man in the photo above gave me some lousy genes in the allergy/sinus department, and I'm definitely feeling it today. Blech.

Don't worry loyal reader(s?), I self-medicated with Chipotle. Guacamole has some medicinal benefits, right?