Happy Happy Turkey Day

We had a great Thanksgiving this year!

Aunt Julie is in town, so we packed up and headed over to my parents house. We were joined by Larry, Lisa, Lisa's mom Deb, Corey, Erika, Erika's brother Tim, Hannah, Marcus, Aunt Patty, Cousin Heather, Roger Brackett & his wife... and of course, don't forget Ellie and Emma!

Here are pictures from the Straws visit, Turkey Day and some other fun ones!

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We also got our tree up this weekend!


My dear friend Ally has a beautiful Thanksgiving post up at her blog: http://allysonwonderland.wordpress.com/. She is a wonderful writer and I wish I could be as eloquent as her. She wrote a list of everything she was thankful for, so I want to do the same!

My loving, silly, helpful husband.

My healthy, chunky, beautiful baby girl.

My family!!!

My in-laws!!!

My amazing friends.

Jobs, bank accounts & money. We don't have a lot and we work hard for what we have, but we have more than a lot of people out there. I thank God everyday for this.

Our sweet doggies. They are part of our family and make us laugh every day. Even though they stink :)

Our health. We weigh too much and eat Mexican food too much, but overall we are healthy and that is a true blessing.

Craig blesses the rains down in Africa...

The cat's out of the bag. Craig finally admitted his undying love for Toto to someone outside of the family circle. Lucky for us, Sara, Ian, Erika & Corey didn't run away screaming. In fact, Ian wasn't really all that shocked. Either way, we all had a blast rocking out to some Toto on Saturday night!

We had such a fun weekend w/ Sara, Ian & Kyla! They arrived Fri evening and we immediately jumped in the car and headed to Los Dos Molinos. Ian's fave Mexican restaurant in Phoenix. I was actually the DD since the other adults all shared a pitcher of frozen strawberry margs :) Saturday, the Daddies let Sara and I go see New Moon. LOVED IT. Ate In & Out burger for lunch. Sat evening we had some friends over for dinner, playing (The Straws & The Feldpauschs were playing Euchre & Kyla was "playing" too, laying down cards, etc... it was too cute!) wii & 80's music jamming :) Sunday we went to the Phoenix Zoo & relaxed!

Kyla was so cute w/ Baby Ellie (as she calls her). And also had a blast playing w/ all of Ellie's baby "stuff" around the house. Ellie thought Kyla was HILARIOUS!

Pics soon to come.

Yesterday, Aunt Julie got to meet Ellie for the first time! OF course, she's either got a little cold or is just teething but she was a little snotty, drooly & cranky. We are just praying that she is a good girl today for her!!! Julie is babysitting her by herself all day!

Me & My Boo

Happy Veterans Day!

I'd like to give a shout out to all our military! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY!!!! You are truly my heroes. I'm so proud to live in the USA and it's you we have to thank for our freedom.

In other news, I uploaded the pictures from this weekend, along w/ some other randoms from the past few weeks! Like I said, we had a ball in Jerome & Sedona. I didn't really take many pics of Sedona, as we just did a "drive by". I put captions on the pics for once!

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Here's one of my faves.

Monday Monday.........

So it's my third week back at work... and it's not getting easier. It's getting HARDER to go back to work each Monday!

I haven't had a chance to upload our pics from our road trip yet, as Craig's dad is still in town. Last night we had a special treat. Cousin David is in town, so he (and my parents) came over for dinner! Scherry made us a Texas Feast--Mexican Cornbread, beans, fried okra & cherry pie. None of my family had ever had fried okra before. David liked it but I'm not sure about mom & dad. Everyone loves Mexican cornbread though (think cornbread w/ ground beef, onion, jalepeno, cream style corn & LOTS of cheddar!) YUM. Thanks Scherry!!!!



Our road trip Saturday was a blast... We went to Jerome & Sedona. Then came back to Phoenix & met up w/ my dad for dinner at our favorite Italian place, Roma Gardens. I'll post the pics soon...

NEW BLOG LOOK!!!

Hi all!

Please take notice of the FABULOUS new look of the Mitchens Blog! I worked w/ a local web designer to help me update the look of our blog. She did such a wonderful job!!! I absolutely love it.

PaPaw (Steve-Craig's dad) arrived late last night for a visit, so Daddy has the day off today! We are going out to dinner tonight for Craig's Birthday (which is today!), then tomorrow taking a road trip to Jerome & Sedona. Hopefully I'll get some good pics.

Everything has been going good w/ MeMaw! She is spoiling all of us rotten, that's for sure. We love having her here and truly appreciate the help she is providing us.

Happy Friday to you!

Happy Halloween

Here are some pics from the last couple of days!
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