Check me OUT! I'm domesticated!

I asked for the turkey carcass on thanksgiving night,

and this is what I did with it. I boiled it in water and

spices and veggies to make homemade turkey broth...

yummmm. made the house smell so good today.

and this is the amount of tender turkey that fell off the
carcass. isnt it incredible? I think it's enough to make
turkey enchiladas and have some good amount of
turkey in some turkey soup this week.
thanks, Mom, you're the best. I'd like to have the
carcass every year, if no one minds?

a few things i picked up at my local
Salvation Army on Black Friday...
I'll post a new pic of the update projects
in just a few days. All projects should be
done by the end of the week...wish me luck
:)

A 2.2 mile walk

We can do this....

we walked to what will be the kids new school in a few weeks, to see if

we could really do it. It was fun, and the kids did great. there were no

fights, and no whining.

Good Job, guys.

On the way home, we all found a big walking stick...

My kids prove that there's nothing better than that...

Thanksgiving Hike...

On Friday, we took our kids to the park, and there are some huge rocks you can hike up to...the boys asked to go up the hill, so we obliged. it was so fun. I got to hold Toby's hand all the way up, and Ry got to hold Toby all the way down....

the view was beautiful, and the kids had a great time. Dusty would have stayed up there all day if we would have let him...
















I asked Dusty after the picture,
"What's up? Why you throwing signs?"
It's so funny...where do kids pick up these things.
Ry and I have never thrown signs...ever...except
maybe an "I love you" sign...now that I just
looked at the blown up version...he's just
doing thumbs up...kids are so fun.

My OFF TRACK ANGELS...lol

My off track ANGELS...cuddled up on my bed.
watching pink panther on (our fav...HULU)
then not two seconds later................................

we have the REAL off track ANGELS...

being as silly as ever, funny faces, trying to

annoy each other and Toby giggling the

WHOLE time.

gotta love being off track.

Toby's sleigh ride...lol

so while at Disneyland on Friday (we went with

some friends, so fun, my kids had a blast) the

big kids went on Thunder Mountain, and since Toby is

about 1/4 inch too short we had to find something

else to do. SANTA....I thought. When I saw the wait

I changed my mind, and we sat on Santa's sleigh

then went back to check the kids on the "Big Train".

He was so cute and patient while the big kids went

on rides that he couldn't go on.

Christmas pics ROCK!

Ry and I took the kids to this little rock formation in our complex. a lot of the

rocks, unfortunately have grafitti, but i was still able to squeeze out some

pretty ROCKIN' pictures, if I do say so myself.

Here's just one to prove it to ya...I can't post any more, cuz I can't decide

which one is the ONE for our Christmas cards...

leave a post, if you want a christmas card sent your way...

I'll do what I can...and let you know if I don't have your addy.

only 44 DAYS left til Christmas. Are you Ready??