Cornhole, Turkey and the Christmas Turkey

Chase and I made a triangle of travel this Thanksgiving weekend.

Okay, so it’s not exactly a triangle, but you can make a triangle out of it… sort of. We left Southern Illinois when I got off of work and arrived in Lost Creek, Kentucky late Wednesday evening. I think we had a total of nine people who stayed the night in a three-bedroom doublewide with two bathrooms. With the help of air mattresses, sleeping arrangements worked out just fine.

Thanksgiving day was full of food, cards and cornhole.

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Jess is making his cornhole face

Chase is holding one very cute Mary Daniel. Fun fact about Mary Daniel: her first word was shoe.

Friday evening we headed up to Fort Mitchell. Unfortunately, Sassy Cassie had been diagnosed with strep throat, so she had to miss the Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday. Miranda had to work, so she couldn’t go either. They missed out on some very entertaining Rebecca Sue.

Rebecca is my three-year-old cousin who felt the need to yell “Merry Christmas!” to anyone and everyone walking by. If someone walked by without returning her greeting, she’d yell it again louder. And if passing zoo-goers still didn’t hear her, she’d yell, “Hey people! MERRY CHRISTMAS!”

Of course my dad egged her on. You might think that the bird on the roof in this picture is a peacock, but you would be wrong. According to what my dad told Rebecca, it’s a Christmas turkey. Rebecca proceeded to yell Christmas greetings to several of them, addressing them as, “Hey Turkey!”

Think I’ve run out of Rebecca Sue goodness? There’s more. Here we are in the elephant house:

I can’t say for sure, but I think my dad got her going about elephant poop. She pointed to it and told me to look, the elephant pooped. She’d yell, “I see it! I see it! He pooped! I see the elephant!” The best, though, was when she started talking to a lady we did not know. (Apparently Rebecca has the habit of talking to strangers.) She very loudly told the lady, “I see the elephant!” and the lady smiled and told her that she was right. Then Rebecca told her that the elephant pooped. After that, Rebecca told the lady’s four- or five-year-old daughter that the elephant pooped, and the daughter started saying it over and over like Rebecca was. Ah, good times.

A very pregnant Amy Lea and I met Frosty the Snowman and had our picture taken.

And Chase and I had our picture taken in front of a flaming tree.

We left early Sunday morning to check out a church in Louisville, Kentucky before heading back to Illinois. We also ate some lunch with Paige and David who were nice enough to bring me my coat that I left in Lost Creek.

Wow that's a long post, but I guess that's what happens when I don't update regularly!

Bathroom Art

Oooh! Two posts in one day! How exciting! Actually, Keli just sent me the pictures of me doing bathroom art, so yeah.

Plus, I picked a new template! I wanted one where I could edit the banner. Plus, the words sometimes freakishly disappeared with the old template when viewing on a PC.

Moldy Jack

As you can see, my pumpkin is pretty moldy. Maybe one of these days we'll throw it out. Last year Chase and I let the pumpkin get to the point to where it just about fell apart when he picked it up. We actually made a short movie about that pumpkin... Well, we haven't actually edited the movie, but we did shoot it. Maybe someday it'll be premiered on YouTube.

I guess I haven't really updated in a little while because nothing particularly update-worthy has been going on. I've mostly been in my regular weekday routine.

Oh, here's something: I contributed to a paint-by-numbers in the bathroom of an art gallery. Saturday, I went to Paducah, KY with Keli. She had to go to a gallery to do a paper about a photography exhibit. While we were at one gallery, the artist told us to visit this other gallery where you can contribute to a paint-by-numbers in the bathroom, so of course we did.

After doing some bathroom art (that just doesn't sound right...), we went to the mall and ate at Pasta House. I also purchased Christmas present number one. One down, and I'm not sure how many to go!

I don't think I have anything else to type about, so here are some more moldy pumpkin pictures for your enjoyment!

Oh, the Excitement!

I've had an exciting past few days.

Thursday: Keli and I smelled the KISS perfume/cologne at Dillard's. A lady sprayed the women's perfume on a paper for us to smell, but no one was at the men's fragrance counter. So Keli found a paper, I reached over the counter and grabbed the tester, and Keli sprayed it on the paper. Then I put the fragrance back. Then Keli said, "Agh! I feel like I just put my hand in an ash tray!"

Friday: I played Full House the board game at BCM game night. Yes, it exists, but no, I did not win. Here is a picture of me playing the game:



And here is Keli with a "full house."



Saturday: I picked up a hitchhiker at Walmart. I'm sure people will tell me I shouldn't have done this and that she could have been a serial killer or something, but I was willing to take that risk. She looked young and looked pretty harmless and had a few bags of groceries. Turns out she's 19 and was in town for a few weeks a Rainbow Gathering that had happened. We had some cool conversation and I dropped her off at her friend's place.