Thanksgiving and other items of interest

Hello, faithful blog-reading audience. We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday and ate way too much food, just like us. Tina and I wanted to share a few recent pictures.

Don't they look cute together?

And here's Trey after performing his favorite trick: get food all over his hands, and then rub his hands all over his face. The point here is that I did not smear food all over his face just to make him look messy. This was all Trey's doing.

I decided to put one of my shirts on Trey, and here's the result:

This has become one of Trey's favorite things to do recently: hide behind/under all the clothes in the closet.

Here is a classic Thanksgiving "action" shot of Walter and Cindy enjoying their food. It was a pretty small gathering (only five of us), but Tina's brother and his family joined us later that night.

After the feast! Trey's become quite the picky eater (remind you of anyone?), so we are always trying to find something that he's willing to eat. So far, we've found that he likes bread. No Atkins diet for this guy.

This is the picture that we're thinking of using for our Christmas cards this year. What do you think? Leave comments!

WHAT'S COOKIN'?

I was making Cream Cheese Pinwheels for a party I'm going to tonight with some friends from church and noticed my camera sitting right by where I was working and thought this looked pretty...the green and black, etc. and so I decided to take a picture! Here is the pinwheel in the making with just the spread on it.

Here it is rolled.

Here they are cut.

This is my mom's recipe...so I'll include it for any who might be interested!

Flour tortillas (large)

2 - 8oz. pkgs. cream cheese

1 sm. can chopped green chilies

1 sm. can chopped black olives

1 chopped green onion (stem too)

few sprinkles of garlic powder

1/2 cup finely chopped pecans

Mix all together. Spread mixture on complete area of flour tortillas. Roll-up and wrap tightly in saran wrap. Place rolls on plate and let set overnight. When ready to serve, unwrap and slice with a sharp knife. Arrange on serving dish.

Better Late Than Never!

These are pictures that I just got from my mom's camera. Here we are celebrating Del's b-day (a while ago) at my parents' house! Happy B-day Del!

Here's Kellen when my mom and 3 nieces babysat him & Trey at our house so that Del and I and his fam. could go to the rodeo.

Kellen with Ashley, Kenna, and Elle.

More pictures of my nieces...

Del with Trey. You just can't get enough pictures like these, right? :)

Tagged, Again!

I was tagged again. This time from my sister-in-law Colette. It's a little different, so I thought I'd do it. Here are the rules:

A. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.

B. At the end of the post, the player then tags 3 people and posts their names.

1. I love to read. I particulary enjoy historical fiction. The Killer Angels, (about Gettysburg), is one of my favorite books.

2. I love to play board games & card games. Unfortunately for me, my husband doesn't, for the most part, when it's just the two of us. He really likes trivia games (which I don't like). But, luckily, when we get together with groups of people to play games, he participates and I think he usually has a good time.

3. Habit: I usually drink 1 can of Dr. Pepper a day. It's a sad day when I run out.

4. Habit: I sleep with ear plugs. I blame my sister-in-law Nicole because after hearing that she slept with ear plugs, I don't really know what possessed me, but sometime after that I started to too. Thanks, Nicole!

5. I am a fantasy basketball (obsessive compulsive, but working on it) junkie. That's right! As long as I have an okay team, I can breath...ahh..and just enjoy the fun. Otherwise, poor Del who has to live with me! Go Dirk!

6. I love, love, love being a mom & want lots of kids.

I tag: Brandy, Marji (come on Marji, you know you have the time! :) ), and Brynn.

HALLOWEEN FUN!!

Trey and Mommy at the start of a fun night!

We took Trey trick-or-treating around our cul-de-sac plus a few other houses in the neighborhood. Here he is walking with his dad.

This is Trey with our neighbor's pug dog. Trey is a dalmation and the pug is a cow. They both are wearing polkadot costumes, so we had to get a picture.

Trey with Daddy.

Here we are trick or treating at our friends', the Pettys, door. They live around the corner from us and go to church with us.

Trey walking up to this scary house!

Here we are at a firestation close to our house that we happened to drive by. We had to stop and get a picture with the firemen since Trey is a dalmation!

Here is Trey at our friend Staci's house.

The Collinson kids. Do you like Clark Kent? They are all so cute!

Me (Tina) with my nieces and nephews and one of their friends. After we went trick-or-treating we stopped by Grandma and Grandpa Jordan's house and had sandwiches, hot dogs, chips, cookies, etc.