Thanksgiving Part 2!

We celebrated Thanksgiving with Drew's mom and their side of the family a few days before Thanksgiving. We had a great time seeing everyone!

The entire fam...

Mike and Matt

Drew's Mom Sandy, Drew, and his Uncle John

Blog slacker! Thanksgiving Part 1

I have been so busy lately that this poor blog has taken a back seat. I have so much to post- Christmas decorations, birthday parties, a trip to Houston and one to Chicago. First I will leave you with Thanksgiving. That was ugh? 2 weeks ago! You get the busy picture :) We hosted Thanksgiving at our house again this year. My Mom, Daddy Mike, brother, and sister (4 hours late...typical!) all came as well as Nick, Helen, Mike, and Matt. Sweet Madison was off cruising with Bless.. the dog! We had our turkeys fried up the street by our buddy Sam. It makes such a difference to take one or two birds out of the picture! Mom and I whipped up some sides in no time! Helen and Nick brought some of the boys favorite sides as well as a ham. We bought pumpkin pie and coconut cake... So easy! I got to relax until after the meal... I hate tupperware! It stresses me out finding the lids that go with the containers. Needless to say I made it though it and we had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our families. We have so much to be thankful for, especially our fams...

Appetizers and drink table

Dining room...

Mom hates doing a kids table in the other room so we put this card table next to the dining room table. All 10 of us sat in one room together.

Matt and I


Nick tasting the bird

the men watching football while the ladies cooked

The feast! Helen in the background.


Nick and dad waiting to gobble, gobble...

My dad makes the best mashed potatoes so we had him help us on those. Here is my mom and dad- flexing his muscles :)

Mom and Mary Parker (my sister) after she arrived 4 hours late. She brought 2 dogs with her... I thought I would slap that blue hair right off her head! :)

Gramm and Drew

Drew, Mom, Mike

My brother John opening his birthday cards. His birthday is the 24th and we always seem to celebrate it Thanksgiving day.

The after party!!!! Sleepy men on a turkey high!
Drew and my scary self.

Clemson vs. South Carolina

Looks who is dressed in purple and orange during the Clemson vs. South Carolina game!!!! hmmmm! One of Drew's duties every Clemson home game is to lead the opposing coach off the field. Someone was extra excited about his job this past Saturday. The pic below is Drew leading South Carolina's Coach Steve Spurrier off the field after Saturday's Clemson vs. South Carolina game. We all know Drew is a HUGE Gamecock fan. This is the one game of the year that it KILLS Drew that he has to wear Clemson gear instead of his usual garnet and black. The poor guy even made the paper wearing his orange and purple! ha! Still pretty cool to see my main man in the paper I must say!

Drew on the left, Coach Spurrier and Coach Swinney giving love to each other :)

Momma it's cold outside!

When I got home last night I was greeted by the dog children living it up in jail. They LOVE to be inside and could care less if it entails being in our tiny kitchen behind several baby gates. Drew is highly allergic to dogs and I am highly anal about dog hair so the poor dudes are rarely in. As you know, we built them a giant dog house/3 season porch so they wouldn't have to come in. Well another thing that I wish I could go back and SLAP myself for b/c it certainly isn't any warmer on the porch! Last night Drew was working so I made a sandwich and had dinner with my dogs.

JAIL!

Can I please have a bite of that sandwich you are eating? And yes I did Clorox the counters.. .

The good dog child who just sits and gives you a sweet face. I love him!!!

South Carolina Homecoming

Last weekend (a little late to post) we went to Columbia for the SC Homecoming festivities. Drew is on the board for his college so went to a fun party on Friday night that his college hosted. We met some great people and got to have yummy food and drinks. On Saturday we got to tailgate in one of the Cockabooses!!! They are old train cabooses that people decorate like little houses in all SC stuff. They outline the right side of the stadium. I have always wanted to go in one and since we don't have any wealthy friends that own one (they cost $300K) we were thrilled when we were invited this week. We had a great time at the game and all the festivities!

the coolest ice sculpture I have ever seen!

cute decorations at the Friday night party

the students had a BBQ contest


Drew had to greet people as the came in since he is on the board. I was making fun of him for his dorky name tag. :)

Tailgating...

Cockaboose!

The view from the top of the Cockaboose!

Went you are in the "high rent district" you run into some high society folks. Here is Drew shaking the SC basketball coach's hand.

We did park in our normal low rent place and hung with our "normal" friends for at least a few minutes.
Jake wasn't so sure about Maddie lovin' up on him :)

The game...

Drew and Jake
Micheal Phelps made an appearance. Why? We have no clue. He has no ties to SC as far as we know???

Shopping for a new bed... KING SIZE!

We closed on our house one year ago this week. At the time I thought it would be fun to buy all new bedding and furniture. Well now I wish I could go back and slap myself! Drew and I are not sleeping so well in a queen size bed these days. Either we have gotten so FAT that we just don't fit or I am just over waking up with a arm in my side. I guess part of it is my fault. I sleep in hotels 1-2 nights a week and get my own KING SIZE bed to myself. I love to sprawl out and sleep right in the middle of the bed. I come home nowadays and try to do the same and Drew is about ready to throw an arm and a leg into me every night. So needless to say we are on the hunt for a KING SIZE bed. I hate the idea of sending all my new bedding and my adorable headboard to the closet but we simply cannot take it anymore. We went shopping last week and from the pics below you will see I am going to have to figure this out on my own. Drew was like a 13 year old jumping from one bed to the next. He had so much fun playing with the beds that went up and down. I kept reminding him those were for 80 year olds, but he didn't seem to care. After 20 minutes his ADD kicked in and he decided to take a nap. I sware! The man was no help and I am the one that needs 101 opinions before a make a decision! Oh this bed thing has got me all in a tizzy....

He ate the thermometer???

One reason we built our porch was so that the dogs would be warm at night. I was tired of putting them in "jail" (kitchen) last winter and constantly cleaning up 100 pounds of dog hair. We bought a digital thermometer at Target last weekend to make sure the temps even on the porch were not too cold for our babies at night. Well smart Drew tried to adhere the sticky tap that holds the thermometer to the brick outside. Brilliant! Of course it fell off and guess who found it? Tyrone!

Drew explaining to Tyrone that we do not eat thermometers!

The destruction

Perfect angel Jackson whose only problem is an obsession with tennis balls.

The dreaded TN vs SC game day pictures!

Drew has been asking me all week why I haven't bothered to update the blog. I wonder why? I still cannot believe we lost and on top of that they fired Phil! I know he wasn't doing a great job this year BUT look at all the years in the past. Drew couldn't believe I was crying during his press conference. I felt so bad for the guy and gosh did Vicky look exhausted and sad. We had a great time at the game despite the turnout for me!

Our 2 flags-- one on each side of the car. Boy did we get looks. As we drove into our tailgate spot Drew rolled down his window. hehe! Luckily for him he could jump out and get it! I tried to run over it :)

In SC you have Low Country Boils for tailgating! SOOO good! In TN we have moonshine!

Drew knows every word to his Alma mater. I think that is strange or am I just dumb for not knowing mine? We had it written on our large game day cups for years. Why in the world did I need to learn it if it was on a cup!

At this point I was cold, annoyed, and covered my orange with the below sweatshirt!

Of course Drew had to have a picture for evidence. Ridiculous!

I did not get in trouble for leaving the game, becoming MIA, or texting this time around. Instead I got in trouble for wearing these shoes to a football game....

For now I will still say GO VOLS!!!!

Seriously?

Could they have played any worse? Half way through the game I put Drew's USC sweatshirt on over my orange jacket. Enough said..