Hello!  Well folks, it is finally December.  How was your late Thanksgiving weekend?  Ours was pretty good.  We realized that we are late getting Christmas set up this year, and now we are scrambling!

We did manage to get some shopping in this weekend as well as a visit to the zoo for Zoolights!  That was a fun time to go to the zoo in the dark and see all of the lights that they have set up around.  There were not many animals out, but they did have Santa and 2 of his reindeer!  The kids enjoyed themselves.  We had to go this weekend, looking at the weather we decided that a 30 degree drop for the next few days wasn’t going to be very good for the kids.

But, back to Thanksgiving.  We spent the day just being with our family.  We didn’t have anyone else come over and we didn’t go anywhere!  It was kind of nice to have a quiet day with some football, the parade and the dog show.  We did try something different this year though.  We decided to barbecue the turkey on the grill instead of the oven.

There was good news and bad with that, the good news is that it cooked quickly and turned out really tasty.  The bad news, it was done about an hour earlier than we had planned, so we had to hurry and get all of the sides done.  I was really surprised how even it cooked, it worked better than last year in the oven.  I have been using the grill for more baking and cooking lately leaving the oven alone.

All in all, it was a very nice day.  Now the crazy starts, this month of December is already scheduled for most of the month.  We have lots of things planned so I will be trying to get posts and pictures up as we do things.

I will get some zoo lights pictures up as soon as I can get them off of Brenda’s MP3 player.

Until next time,

-Justin