Happy sweet 16 Allison

 Here is Allison's sweet 16 birthday present.  A brand new baby kitty all for her very own. Its all she asked for and she has not stopped smiling since we took her to pet-smart and let her pick it out from a litter of seven very sweet kittens.  It was a hard choice but this kitty won Allison's heart.  Now she just needs to give it a name.  Ashley can't wait until she is 16!!

Allison is a sweet, happy ,fun loving teenager.  She loves to sing, dance and laugh.  She loves animals and her family.  We love you Allison--Happy Birthday.

Thanksgiving 2012

James had to work from 9-5 on Thanksgiving so it seemed we had a lot of time to do all the baking and get the turkey in so we could eat by 6:00.  Jarin and Allison baked pies on Wednesday, Karen baked a few on Thursday.  Jarin wanted to stuff the turkey like grandma Townsend used to do so we did that and had the turkey in with plenty of time to get done.  James came home at 5: 30 and said there was no way the turkey was even close to being done.  To make a very long and funny story not so long and funny(we all promised to remember the fun and not the arguements and orneryness) we finally sat down to eat Thanksgiving dinner at 8:00 p.m.  Good thing we were not planning to do the early pre-black Friday sales.

Here are a few things we did as we waited to eat our yummy dinner.  Which it was very yummy by the way and the turkey was the best turkey we have had for a very long time.

Allison and Ashley did a minnie round of 3rd grade arm wrestling.