Dad | Living My Full Life

Hey! I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving.

My family from New York arrived at my house around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, and they’re still here.. woo! We’ve all been hanging out at my house, traversing the Pittsburgh area, eating good food, and laughing a lot.

Thanksgiving food preparations began on Tuesday night, with my mom and I baking almond and pumpkin cookies. Wednesday morning, I made pumpkin pie and banana cream pie. My mom made an apple pie and my aunt made cheesecake. Dessert city!
The turkey was fully cooked around 2:30 p.m., and we ate around 3:00p .m.! We had turkey, sage-sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes, broccoli, corn, biscuits, coleslaw, and cranberry sauce. I thought it was very goofy, but we also had ketchup and sriracha at the table :p. Good food and a messy table. I swear my family isn’t usually that messy… we were just looking at Black Friday advertisements!

Me, Hannah, and Molly (one of our cousins). We didn’t plan on matching by wearing black t-shirts. Just a coincidence!

Mom + Dad looking all adorable and whatnot ❤

Everyone gathered in our tiny living room to watch my favorite football team (the Dallas Cowboys) lose.

My mom and aunt left to go shopping around 7 p.m. (crazy). Everyone else gathered around the fire.For a little while, it was just my dad and I sitting by the fire. I don’t get to talk to him one-on-one very often because he’s always busy with work. We were able to sit together and talk for about an hour, just me and him. I think that was my favorite part about Thanksgiving. I love my dad :).

Also, I have some good news. My truck isn’t totaled and I might be getting it back sometime next week!

I learned the good news on Thanksgiving and I was very thankful! It was crazy to think that the crash happened on Halloween, and I finally heard back on Thanksgiving. I am so excited to get my baby back! Every time Pittsburgh had warm weather the past few weeks, I wanted to wash my truck, and then I would realize that I couldn’t. Now I can! But it’s supposed to snow this week. LOL.

I have more pictures to share, but I don’t want to make this post too long. I’m off to work, and then spending the day with my family because they leave tomorrow.

How was your Thanksgiving?

No more of my life in 30 days. I am almost relieved it is done but at the same time I am a little sad!

I have a few random thoughts/questions for today:

-Can you believe it is already January 17th, 2011?

-Do you celebrate MLK day in any way?

-Do you have today off?

-What brand of coffee do you brew at your home?

, YeahI know the last one was a little random but I was thinking about coffee!!

In my house we drink:

Starbucks Breakfast Blend

Or:

Dunkin’ Donuts Turbo

Sometimes:

Little packets of Arbuckles flavored coffee (My personal fav!)

Yesterday turned out to be a fun day! Ice skating was awesome and not as full as I thought it would be. I brought my camera, but not on the ice because I thought I would fall right on it!! Here are some pictures though 🙂

On our way, listening to music. Susan a lover of music, would be so proud!! (She makes the best mixes!)

Way to look dad! He is NOTORIOUS for not looking. I may have to make a post about him not looking.

Say hello to Chester, Hannah’s hamster who turned 1 years old yesterday. She had a birthday party and even bought him gifts such as a leash (yes, I am serious) and apple sticks (yes, I wanted to eat apple sticks)

There is Chester on his leash! Hannah made him a hoodie too:

Don’t worry, Lola wasn’t left out of the fun 😉 Jim and I walked her and she needed to be warm..

What better way to keep your pit bull warm than a dog vest?!

I made some soup. . .

Butternut squash soup… that I didn’t want my dad to touch.. because it wasn’t done. Sometimes he ignore post it notes… so I used 5 post it notes !

Bible Verse of the day:

Do not be overawed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases; for he will take nothing with him when he dies, his splendor will not descend with him. Psalm 49:16-17

Here is a little poll for you

Have a great day 🙂