holiday weekend

Did everyone have a nice Thanksgiving? It's been a busy weekend for us but lots of fun. Thursday we hung out with a bzillion of my family members (well, maybe not a bzillion, but there were about 40 of us there!) at Uncle Larry's and Aunt Nancy's house.

My favoritecousincori brought her friend, Andrea, to have Thanksgiving with us. About a week before Thanksgiving, aunt Nancy sent an email out to Cori, Cori's siblings, and Andrea. The email was about a 5K race on Thanksgiving morning to raise money for Grand Rapids Public Schools. When Andrea received the email, she assumed it was a family tradition and registered for the race right away. She is such a trooper because when she realized on Thanksgiving morning that she was the only one who registered for the race, she ran it anyway. And she wrote an amazing poem about our family. And before dinner, she read her amazing poem in front of everyone. It was several pages long and because she had requested a copy of the family tree, just about everyone was mentioned in the poem. Even Rose, my dead great uncle's girlfriend, got a shout out.

So we ate lots, drank even more, and just had fun.

Friday night was Comet Bar action. Always a good time but I'm a little concerned because it is being taken over by the young folk which means Sarge and Gayle don't get to sing much. Actually, I haven't even seen Sarge in a long time. Hope he's okay.

Yesterday we went shopping for bridesmaids dresses and actually found some! Yay! Joel's and Amanda's wedding is going to be so much fun.

Today I pulled out the dead tomato plants and lots of nasty rotted tomatoes in the "garden." Since I gave up on my "garden" in the middle of the summer, there was lots of grossness to clean up. And now there are snails and slugs. Gross. Hopefully they'll all die when it gets cold soon. Or do they just hibernate? Guess I need to do some research. Next summer I'll only grow a couple plants that I can keep up with. 10 tomato plants and 2 jalapeno plants and 2 green pepper plants were way too many for someone that just doesn't like to get dirty.

I can't believe Christmas isn't very far away. And my first official semester of grad school will be done soon.

Yay!