A Thanksgiving full of games

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday this year. I know my Thanksgiving was filled with abundant food and lots of laughter, thanks to the game that Janell shared with us. It's called telephone pictionary and it goes something like this:

1. Every player takes a piece of paper and writes a sentence at the top. Then every player passes the sheet to their left
2. The next person reads the sentence to themselves and draws a picture of the sentence below
3. Then every player folds over their piece of paper so only their drawing is visible and passes
4. The next receiving person examines the picture and writes a sentence describing it below the picture
5. Then every player folds over their piece of paper so only their sentence is visible and passes it to their left
6. Continue until you get your paper back

As you can imagine, hilarity ensued. Here are some of the funnier progressions:

Although it is too late for me.....

As the winter months are upon us and with that the season of Christmas and with that my right hand's nubs' bar-mitzvah, I would like to draw any and all interested parties' attention to this article I happened to stumble upon which defends my actions with a said snowblower on December the 22, 2008.







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A Day in the Park

The girls spent an enjoyable afternoon playing at the park across the street from our house today. I'm glad we went after lunch, since after nap-time, the rain was pouring down! It may have been our last opportunity to spend there this year...and the girls were thrilled! So, here are a few photos of your favorite girls....(Peter was sleeping in his pack and didn't want to get out and play)...

ASPCA Notification

It has come to the attention of the ASPCA that Ozzie is no longer safe at 1865 Brighton Circle. An Animal Rescue Crew is on its way to safely retrieve and redistribute Ozzie to a home in which he will not be eaten.




UPDATE: It has come to the attention of the ASPCA that the pictured dog is not Ozzie. Well, of course not. The pictured dog was named Bubbles and was the prior canine occupant of 1865 Brighton Circle. The ASPCA is attempting to help Ozzie avoid the cruel and delicious treatment meted out to Bubbles. Poor, brave Bubbles.

Hancock Halloween

For Halloween, (or Hallaloonya, as Ella calls it) the girls dressed up as princesses (don't have any photos right now, I'll have to get some from Cameron & Olivia's grandma) and Peter wore his baseball outfit (quite fitting during the World Series). I dressed up as a very busy mom. Sorry to say, no photos of that. Steve dressed up as a honey extractor and my kitchen made itself up as a honey house. See photos below.

The kitchen disguised as a honey house. Please note, the cupboards and oven are non-functional in this photo (we got to order pizza for lunch).

Steve is uncapping one of the last frames of honey (many, many hours after the project began). The knife is heated so it easily slices through the beeswax (minding one's own, of course) and allows the honey to be extracted.

A close-up of the uncapping process. Note the honey oozing from the cells. (it's very tasty) This uncapped frame will then be placed in a radial extractor (the large cylindrical shiny object in the first photo) and spun at very high speeds (we have a motorized version) so that the honey will be spun out and then drain to the bottom, where it will flow through a honey gate into a large bucket. We obtained approximately 8 gallons of honey on Halloween. There shouldn't be s shortage at our house this winter!

The Trophy Wife

Perfect in every way

Happy Halloween!!!

I was a lumberjack this year for Halloween, and Cecilia (Matt and Leah's older daughter) was a fairy.


Did anyone else dress-up?