Thanksgiving Fun :)

This year, Thanksgiving was small at our house.....it consisted of: myself, my youngest sister, Jill, my parents and my mom's dad and his wife, Glenda. We really needed to have a lot more people considering the size of the turkey, 32 lbs. :) My aunt and her son's raise turkeys for 4H or something similar and the 32 pounder was one of the smallest! Imagine hauling 50+ of those ginormous birds around!
As traditionally we have Rot Kohl (red cabbage) for dinner I assisted with the prepartion of that! We also had Struedel, but I didn't get any pictures of the desserts.....I hope to make my siblings homesick with these pictures! :) Katie, the heart made of cloves on the onion is for you. Remember when we got really crafty with this? Good times.....

Me decorating my onion, to be placed in the pot with the red cabbage. Vinegar and sugar are also added to the water and then it is all boiled for a while to make Rot Kohl!! yum, yum When I was a little girl, my Oma made the Rot Kohl and thus it has become a Thanksgiving tradition. I love it!! :)

Jill has become master of the rolls! heheh Seriously, she makes the most amazing rolls and sweet rolls. She made some caramel, toffee sweet rolls that are absolutely amazing! I have tried making sweet rolls myself and they just don't turn out quite the same......She is much more patient than I am when it comes to baking.....

Here is Grandpa and Grandma Glenda all ready to chow down! Grandpa even posed for the picture....he is such a good sport! And look at that marvelous spread of food!! That's right, we were pretty sick after the meal, but it all sure tasted great!

Jill with the gravy.

The Turkey.....You should have seen it before my dad carved some meat off of it! It took two 16" Dutch Ovens to cook it and boy was it yummy! You should have see us trying to get the Turkey out of the Dutch Ovens.....quite humorous! :D

Here is a plateful of Thanksgiving goodness, Crystal that is you on the phone! :) Crystal called just as we had finished the prayer and were getting ready to eat. So, she, Andy, Syd and Ashlyn joined us for our meal.

Ok, this is a good story......Another Thanksgiving tradition is that my Uncle Rod and his family as well as my Uncle Bruce and his family come to our house to play games. Why, you ask? Because we are amazingly, awesome and oh so much fun, of course!! :) Anyway, we played Apples to Apples first, just to get started. Landon had to work so our group got a bit smaller, not too much though. It was the four of us, Jill, Mom, Dad and me and then Rod, Gina, Trisha, Josh, Payton, Kayla and Tanner. And what is more fun with such a group than Ligretto?? Awesome game for those who have never played it! Well, with such a large group, it was difficult to get to the other end of the table, thus making it hard to get rid of you cards. I complained about this and mom said questioned why I didn't just jump. Attempting to demonstrate why this was a bad idea, and in all honesty, not at all thinking, I jumped across the table. Not my brightest idea.......I broke the table leg, thus ending our Ligretto fun....Sorry everyone! At least we all laughed.......although, Mom did call me Tubbs...... :)

And that is our Thanksgiving fun!! I hope that this makes you all miss us and want to make every effort to come home for the fun next year!! :)

Weekly Update

Lots of exciting news in the life of Lisa.... :) Ok, not really but last weekend, due to some issues, I moved back to Willard to live in my parents basement again. Just kidding, I did move home to my parents house but I have moved up at the Holmes house, due to the vacated space my sister left and am now living upstairs with a crib in my room! :)

Also, today I ran a 5k race in SLC and was able to run with my freundin und Schwester im Evangelium, Jaime Pedersen. Not as fast as I would have liked but I finished and was not beat by all of the little 8-14 year old girls. It was called Girls on the Run, a non-profit organization supporting young girls in health lifestyles.

And that is my update for now. I am looking for a job again but if all else fails I will go beg Tina for a job on Tuesday. :)

Political Rantings

Recently, Katie posted something titled "Fed Up!" She talked about how we only hear about Republicans and Democrats and how other options are never mentioned. Since today is the day to vote, Jessica, a girl I work with, and I have been discussing voting. First, I have had other things on my mind and thus forgot to register to vote however, I doubt it would matter anyway. Utahn's vote the same way every time so my vote would not make a difference. However, I am tired of the Media and the way the candidates mainly bash their opponents and rarely have answers about the issues. These people are spending millions of dollars to promote themselves and we as a Country are in a recession. Could that money not be put to better uses? And Americans can deny it all they want, but we are in a recession as a whole! The problem? The majority of Americans are spoiled and think they need to have everything instead of living within their means. I'll be honest, I am guilty of this but I am also taking responsibility for my debt, working two jobs to pay it off. I would love to find just one job where I made enough money to cover my bills but I'm not going to turn down two jobs with lower pay because I don't want to work. If I weren't so tired, I might be a little more eloquent about it.... :)
We lived in a blessed Nation, where we have the opportunity to do whatever we choose. We are only restricted by ourselves. Each choice has a different consequence, but it is ours to choose amd that is a wonderful thing!