Electric Company

We had friends out for lunch yesterday and let all the kids (a matched set of boys and girls) play while we watched football. It's nice having kids old enough that they can play on their own, until...apparently the boys had a dispute over whether the light switch should be on or off. After all was said and done, somehow one of the wires got broken off the back of the switch! No idea how it could have happened. $1.88 in repairs, and no injuries. Eli, being part of the problem, also decided to be part of the solution by holding my flashlight while I replaced the switch. Within 5 minutes he broke the flashlight too. He's a one man wrecking crew!



Alison and I went to skate with Santa on Sunday night, which was a great chance to just go skate without having to worry about lessons or working on anything other than just having fun. Santa's apparently a hockey player - he was kind of hard to keep up with.




Eli has been fascinated with electric toothbrushes this week. Tonight he decided that he needed his own electric brush. With great (though slobbery) results.

Giving Thanks

We took an extended trip to Grandma and Grandpa's for Thanksgiving. The weekend before, I was able to fill two of my three turkey tags. This is the second year in a row that I was able to get a turkey the weekend before Thanksgiving.

We were concerned about getting caught by weather on Wednesday morning, and decided to leave at midnight to get out ahead of any weather. As it turned out, the roads didn't get that bad, but we were still able to log almost all of the miles of the trip with the kids sound asleep.

Thanksgiving was spent wrangling kids (ours and our nephews) and just relaxing with family.




On the way back, Eli and Alison took turns playing with the camera on my phone - they're getting pretty good!



We suffered a slight bit of insanity and chose to go to IKEA and the Mall of America the Sunday after Thanksgiving - amazingly enough, it didn't seem that busy and the kids did really well - AND we managed to find the dining room table we've been looking for.