A Wonderful Time

So for Thanksgiving this year we decided to venture down to Moses Lake, Washington to spend the holiday with the Kofoed's! We drove down with Gare's brother Derek and his girlfriend Courtney and it was the longest drive of my life.  It took us about 15 hours each way because of the terrible weather.  It was crazy how many cars we saw off to the side of the road and how many crashes there were, I got real nervous and decided to put my ipod in and close my eyes. Good news is we made it safe:]]

Me in the car being scared (notice the scary weather behind me)

It was so cold! On Wednesday the power even went out because of the temperature. Luckily it only lasted a couple of hours! It was also Garett's birthday on Wednesday, it was nice to be able to spend it with him and his family and of course we went to the famous Chicos, this little pizza place that everyone in Moses Hole goes nuts over. And funny enough they have really good fries, and COKE :]] Thanksgiving day was also really nice, a bit strange to be spending it with a different family, but awesome to be with them and learn new family traditions! Gare and his mom made turducken, that was a bit interesting, don't miss Garett's post about it below! The rest of the food was really good the only thing that was missing was Grandma Glory's macaroni :[[ Oh well I will have to wait until Christmas I guess. On Friday we all (Garth, Beth, Derek, Courtney, Keith, Mariah, Eddy & us) went to Leavenworth. Its this cute little German town in Washington, It has cute little shops and restaurants, it kinda reminds me of Park City or Midway. Anyway, it was really fun, they were even having a Christmas festival, it was all decked out in lights and they had live Christmas music under a little gazebo, it was cute. It was fun to walk around with the family and roam the shops and see pretty lights :]] We also got some really good hot chocolate!

Leavenworth Mar. 2009

Leavenworth Nov. 2010

The awesome aprons we found HA!

So we had a good time, except for the 15 hour car rides :/ Thanks Garth, Beth, and the rest of the Kofoed clan for having us!

xoxo Pres

Turducken!

   We made TURDUCKEN!!!! (My mommy and I, Presley took some good pictures.)

  Turducken - a dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed into a de-boned turkey.

Birds finishing defrosting.

IT WAS AWESOME! ...But it sucked to de-bone all those birdies. They were really cold and I (Garett) had to play around for awhile with them to figure out how to do it. The duck was the worse to do... I hacked that sucker up and there was not a lot of meat on the sucker. I now know why guys go out and shoot 5 of 6 of them out of the sky at a time, you might as well hunt for rats.

Hacking the duck.

They say that you can de-bone your turkey and it will cook faster and it will be much easier to carve up! After I got all the birds free from their skeletons I took this next picture of the pile of meat we had!

BAM! That's a pile of meat right?!

We padded our layers of bird with a layer of stuffing. Then we sewed it all up with some skewers.

"That looks so nasty." -Presley

 Well after 15 hours of cooking and being cut up in to small tantalizing bite size pieces even Presley loved the Turducken!

A bird with no bones = Real easy to cut up!

We kind of ended up with some visible layers.

I liked it too! I was worried that we would end up with a funky tasting pile of bird flesh and have a Thanksgiving lacking a lovely turkey bird BUT it was truly scrumptious. Next time we are going to have WHOLE STUFFED CAMEL!

Garett

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

 --e. e. cummings 

Congrats Meg & Cam

My very best friend Megan is ENGAGED!! I am so happy and excited for her. Cam is such a great guy and I know that she is going to be a beautiful bride! I am trying to convince her that since she is engaged now its time for her to join the blogging group! Do it Meg come on!!

haha this is the only picture I had of the 4 of us.

I miss my sister :[[

Baby sister Ash

Shrimp

"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it."

 -- Bubba 

We went to Red Lobster with Deidra and David for an early celebration of Garett's birthday, and we all ordered all you can eat shrimp! The whole time I was eating I couldn't stop thinking about Forrest Gump haha. It was delicious and we all left with very full tummies. After dinner David and Deidra took us to Comedy Sports, we had a blast. These funny people put on a comedy improve like show, kind of like "Whos Line is it Anyway?". We laughed a lot and I even got to volunteer in one of the games.  
 

Us at Comedy Sports

They even had fun fancy COKE :]]

Happy Veterans Day

"And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me."

~Lee Greenwood

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

~Abraham Lincoln