MY FIRST TURKEY

I'm 30 yrs old and never did a turkey all by myself, this year I did ! and it didnt burn or raw and was on time and not dry! Very happy about my success. I did a very basic, traditional Thanksgiving dinner, cranberry sauce, candied yams, stuffing with celery and apple, turkey gravy with homemade mashed potatoes, green salad, rolls,and of course TURKEY!! We did have pumpkin pie, mini apple pies for dessert. I'm so thankful for my family and to have our own place and to afford thanksgiving. My grama and mom joined us today. BUT, this is the first year in so so long, that my sister and her family hasnt joined us. Now that was something I wasn't thankful for. Maybe next year things will be different. Thank you God for all blessings this year.

MY PRETTY TURKEY

GRAMA CARVING THE BIRD

THE GIRLS MEAL

HERE'S THE FAMILY

SOME OF OUR FOOD..

(I really need some serving dishes I will buy this year!)

MAKE YOUR OWN PIZZA NIGHT

Our day started as usual angelina to school, then off for the errands, grocery shopping, a return at old navy, and a stop for a car ride for lei lei.


Then home to prepare for dinner. I thought making our own mini pizza's would be a great dinner and learning activity. I handmade the dough in advance and got the sauce stuff ready to make, When angelina got home from school we made the sauce and layed out all the ingridents for assembly. We had Italian 4 cheese, homemade sauce, mushrooms, onions, pepperoni's. First angelina went and I let her shape her own dough and make her own pizza, leilani I helped lil bit with the shape of the dough, but she did all the toppings herself. Eddie got really into it, tossing his dough in the air, SHOW OFF! LOL It all came out great, and even eddie wanted to do another night like this. Grandma was there for dinner too, but was hesitant about trying the pizza. Great family night.

Before (angelina on the left, lei lei on right)

AFTER

MUFFIN TIN MONDAY ~ FOOD I'M THANKFUL FOR

Another muffin tin moday is here. I did a theme of Food i'm thankful for as a mom, things the girls will eat when there being super picky! I had a tree shaped muffin, perfect for the holidays.

Whats in it?!
1. vanilla yougurt, (dora package!)
2. apples
3. turkeyn cheese mini hawaiian bread sandwhich
4. cheddar cheese cubes
5. spongebob cheese its
6. a dill pickle
(lei lei and me love cheese!)

ANOTHER GREAT WEEKEND

Saturday eddie works, So we headed sears for a sale with grams, which didnt last long with no stroller! We only bought a couple pairs of pj's for angelina, I'm not a sears fan, except for appliances. After we had lunch at McD's(girls choice) and let them play outside. Eddie got home early,and talked grama in a game of WII. We actually spent almost hour in bowling and kareoke. Leilani actually trys her best to sing its so funny. Grama and eddie battled it out in bowling. Grama offered to take the girls overnight and to church the next day. At first I said no, I dont like her taking on too much, but she insisted and the girls actually act like angel's with her. Me and eddie headed out for a date nite. I wanted to go check out the new gardenwalk in anaheim, shops and resturants. It was nice, kinda empty. We had dinner at Cheese Cake Factory their food is so good! After we headed to rent a movie and a short stop at Target for a few nessities. I also go to show some ideas for christmas presents for the girls, We can't do that when their with us.

Yes we condone bag play! (only with us around!)

leilani ripped it!

serious keraoke girl

Sunday Eddie woke me up early and took me to breakfast in Huntington beach, after we walked around the beach and the shops. I picked up a new Bob Marely shirt for angelina at Born Punk. Her old one has a new owner, leilani! After we headed to Old navy, since I froze my ass off last night, I dont own a jacket. He bought me a beautiful black wool jacket hits my knees, looks so nice on, and the best part it was 50% off! Finally got the call the girls were at grams so we headed over there. I helped my mom with starting a facebook account, yes my mom is on facebook. Then it was dinner time, and we all headed to CoCo's for dinner. Leilani wasn't in the greatest mood, but still ended up being a great dinner. Perfect Sunday nite.

TOTALLY TOTS

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SNOWMAN CRAFT

Tonite I had a fun craft planned, out of cotton balls, blue paper, felt, googly eyes, glue,pipe cleaners and chalk.. I did all the cutting of felt and drawing of outline of snowman, but the girls did all the assembling, well with lil help from me with lei lei ..lol They loved, loved this craft, and kept them busy for awhile. I got this idea from: allkidsnetwork.com. Leilani tore hers up later on and angelina's too, which caused a big fight between them. What angelina doesnt know, I put the snowman back together, and will be the first thing she see's on the fridge in the morning, and lei lei can't reach it.

ITEMS NEEDED

ANGELINA'S IN THE MAKING..

LEILANI'S FINISHED SNOWMAN

AND ANGELINA'S

TOT SCHOOL TIME

Angelina has been working on the letters E, F, and G. We did a few tracing worksheets including these letters and her full name. She getting much better at it.

The first project we did was marble painting, which included a blue piece of paper, marbles , white paint, tape,sicssors, tongs and cookie sheet. Since I have no pictures due the damn camera I'll try and explain, tap piece of paper to cookie sheet with tape, dip marbles in paint with tongs and drop on paper and roll around, we used 3 marbles, we were trying for a snowflake effect after it dried we folded it several times and we cut shapes of the paper. I did this was leilani too and she loved it.



The second project we did was a fall tree, use green paper, different color bingo markers,sicssors and toliet paper rolls. This was a simple but fun activity that both enjoyed, I just cut out a tree shape, cut slits on the top of the roll, and let them decorate and figure out how to attach it.