Thanksgiving 07

This year's Thanksgiving was once again different from the first twenty-four Thanksgivings of my life. Since Jeremy and I decided to stay in Telluride, we cooked everything ourselves (Jeremy did most of it, actually). Iva came over for a while and ate a very small portion of the feast before heading out to dinner with some of her colleagues.

Our feast consisted of an 18 pound turkey, homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy, sweet potatoes, squash, and pumpkin pie, as well as the less homemade green bean casserole, canned corn, and canned cranberries. It was delicious, and we even found room in the frisge for all of the left overs!




This morning while I was watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade, I put up our small Christmas and the ornaments that were easy to hang without the little ornament hooks. I'll have to finish after our next trek into Montrose.


It's back to work tomorrow as I push on through this first entry for National Boards. Hopefully once I get one finshed, the other three will be little easier to get through.

Things I'm Thankful for...
1. Having someone to love
2. Having parents who love Jen and me
3. Having a sister who is always making the best of life
4. Living in such a beautiful place (even if we never get enough snow to ski this year)
5. Teaching kids who think everything is amazing

Thankfully...we've made it to Thanksgiving!

I've never seen an entire school so ready for Thanksgiving break! The kids were outrageously energetic and the teachers were exhausted, but luckily we now all have a short break from one another. For the elementary school, we actually had ten days without seeing our kids, as we had a grading day on Friday and meetings all day on Monday and Tuesday. Break officially started for teachers this morning when I woke up on my own without an alarm! Although I have a lot of work to do over break for National Boards, I'm also going to get in some relxating!

Jeremy and I are staying here in Telluride. Iva is going to come over and hang out on Thanksgiving, but other than that we're on our own. Jeremy has bought an 18 pound turkey to feed three people, so we may all actually turn into turkeys, but oh well! We're also planning on homemade mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, homemade stuffing, and of course the pumpkin pie (my job).

While I never thought I would complain about 60 degree and sunny weather, this unfortunately means no skiing over break. Last year this time Lottie and I were taking our first ski lessons, but this year I'll be out hiking. We had several inches of snow in October, but absolutely none yet in November. They started blowing snow at the begining of the month but gave up this week because it was all melting during the day. We were a little optomistic that we'd get some of the 6-12 inches the Denver area is supposed to get today, but alas the sun is shining and there's not a cloud in the sky!

Hope everyone is doing well. Love you!

Halloweening

Jeremy's convertable was requested to lead the parade (behind the traditional fire engine) carrying Colorado Teacher of the Year, Seth Berg (a math teacher at our high school).


Me as Pippi Longstocking.