This year for Thanksgiving we went over to my (Rachel’s) Mom & Dad’s house. Jason fried the turkey for the 2nd year in a row and it turned out great! We enjoyed many wonderful side dishes as well as homemade desserts. It was a lot of fun to gather with family, eat, and relax. After dinner we watched the Colts beat the Falcon’s. Go team.

Thanks to everyone for making yesterday a really fun and special day. We love you all!

Dave & the turkey on the way to the deep fryer.

Golden & oh so crispy.

Momma, Rachel & Aimie

Daddy & Momma

Nice Daddy

Chris & Aimie

Jason & Rachel

Dave & Jason frying the turkey

Its turkey time

Homemade Cherry Pie - 1st piece to Daddy

We are fostering again! Meet miss Jawa Sugar Plum. Sugar for short. She is a red-fawn color, almost 2 year old rescued greyhound from Daytona Beach. She raced under a year and was retired because she was “very slow”. We think she is pretty cool though. She has already warmed up to us. She greets us in the morning with a wildly wagging tail, kisses and much excitement. She likes to chase Moses, eat and play with toys. What a sweetie.

Her ears are so cute folded over like a bow.

Fresh of the track. Look at that those muscles.

This is her sweet ride from Florida. They leave Florida at 7 pm Fri night and arrive in Indy at 11 am tired, hungry and full of energy.

First bath of retirement. Aww, nice and clean.

Yes, its what you think. She is gnawing on her leg. Crazy dog.

Jason went to the Purdue vs Michigan State game last Sat. The only good thing about the game was the food and the company. Jason especially enjoyed hanging out with Jack, his 1 1/2 year old cousin.

Here are some irresistible pictures.

I just want to say thanks to my Daddy for the beautiful flowers.  I love you!

You know were this is going don’t you; another misadventure of living with our sweet dog Moses.

We keep his treats on the lower shelf of our pantry in the kitchen. He usually gets one before we leave the house for laying down and not rushing out the door with us. The other day I must have been in a hurry and left the door to the pantry slightly cracked. When I came home I felt a lot of crumbs on the floor but hadn’t vacuumed yet that day so shrugged it off.

When I went to feed Moses later he took about 2 bites, looked at me and walked away. I was shocked. But we are trying to wean him to completely dry food which is harder to eat. When we tried before he did the same thing. So, I let it go. When Jason came home I mentioned that Moses had been leaving a lot of crumbs from his bones and suggested that we only give him half for now on (less crunching). He agreed and said he would break them in half while I finished making dinner.

Much to his surprise the bag that had been nearly full that morning was open and had only 3 or 4 bones left. Whoops. I guess all the crumbs were from Moses eating the whole bag. The funny part was that the pantry was closed and the bag hadn’t moved. Smooth Moses, you almost got away with it.

For Halloween our small group went to the church parking lot and set up our own “trunk or treating” station. We decided to dress up like Colts fans tail-gaiting- not a far stretch. It was a fun evening. The night before we had a pumpkin carving party. Some of the pumpkins were pretty impressive. (mine not so much)

Go Colts

Jeff, Lindsey, Justin and Jaleen

Lauren, Moses and Rachel

Jason and Axal keeping warm

Great job

Small Group

I have a confession to make. This is to clear Nikki’s (Jason’s sister) name so she doesn’t have to take all the blame. The other day at dinner Grandma Shore was talking about a potential menu for their super exciting fabulous anniversary party in Florida coming up in Feb. G-ma mentioned that there was going to be chicken salad. The conversation paused and I said, “Well you know Nikki doesn’t like chicken salad.” The truth is, I don’t either. There is it. The truth. I guess I didn’t have the guts to say that I didn’t like it, sorry G-ma and sorry Nikki.

Awhile back Jason did a chalk art for our church at a family weekend where our friends who are starting a church plant in New Zealand (Hamish and Molly, Nate and Whitney) happened to be speaking at. Hamish was touched by the drawing but because of the drawings size was unable to take it with him. So Jason made a smaller, air mail friendly drawing that can be shipped easier. Here is a the picture. Also if you are interested check out Nate and Whitney’s site: http://www.n8andwhitney.com/. There are doing awesome things for God in this country and are preparing to serve the people of New Zealand very soon.