Holiday Food Fest

I think this looks like fun. I will probably at least follow along and check the blogs. If I get super ambitious, I may even cook something! I know. My eyebrows are climbing into my hairline too.

Here is the schedule:
Thanksgiving & Fall Desserts November 5th hosted at Hoosier Homemade
Thanksgiving & Fall Dishes November 12th hosted at Tasty Eats at Home
Gifts of Good Taste Novemeber 19th hosted at Getting Freedom
Holiday Cocktails, Mocktails, & Appetizers December 3rd hosted at Simply Sugar and Gluten Free
Holiday Dishes December 10th hosted at Gluten Free Easily
Holiday Desserts December 17th hosted at Life as Mom

As everyone who has read this blog for a while knows, I love Thanksgiving and Christmas. So I'm excited to have some seasonal reading and some inspiration for new dishes. Some of the hosts are gluten or sugar free, but the recipes are open to all kinds of cooking. Happy Christmas!

Autumn Mist

We had a lovely rare fog this morning, so the boys and I decided a little trip to the Greenbelt was in order! It's so fun to see Iain developing friendships.


It was pretty chilly this morning. There was even snow on the foothills.



We saw some geese gliding quietly in the fog. They were beautiful, but the the boys were so excited that they quickly scared the birds away!


Just a hint of fall color in the cottonwood trees this morning.



Iain and his buddy had fun "taking a race" down the Greenbelt. I walked as fast as I could and jogged a bit alongside them-- hopefully I won't feel that later.


Of course when we got home, we had to have some hot "tocolate" with "marshmelons." Yummy! I love autumn, and I'm thrilled that we've settled in a place that has it!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we went to the Boise holiday parade.


It was fun seeing the Shriners in their crazy cars, the local paramedics doing synchronized CPR on teddy bears to "Stayin' Alive", and even...

Elvis! Everybody knew the king was alive somewhere. We told you Boise was a nice town to live in!

Brian got a real kick out of the logo on this truck. He said it looked like something out of a 70's cop show.


Iain got tired of the parade early so we walked to see the big Christmas tree in the Grove Center downtown. You can't see it in the picture, but he is crying here. Sheesh. You can see Peekaboo in her doggie sweater though. We got stopped every twenty seconds or so by people wanting to pet her and tell her how cute she was. Who know a dog in a sweater could be so popular? We just didn't want her to be cold.

On Monday night we had Mel over and decorated our Christmas tree. Iain was so interested in this and helped us hang ornaments until we were done.

(Btw, Mel, it was severely tempting to post some of those silly pics you left of yourself on our camera. Other friends have not been so lucky in the past!)







And earlier this week we made snowmen out of doughnuts, much to Iain's delight. He loves Raymond Briggs' The Snowman, and getting make a tasty dessert that looked like a snowman was pretty exciting.

Remember, remember . . .

Since tomorrow is the 5th of November (we'll be going to the Lewes bonfire night, which is the undisputed best in the world!), I thought you might enjoy these two clips. Watch this one:



And then watch this one:

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Brian here again: I was playing this video (which is a U2 song reconstructed from a State of the Union address, for those few out there who wouldn't know that--you know who you are*), and Iain thought it was very funny! He laughed at it for quite a while, then all of a sudden, with a minute or so left in the song, he got very serious. Was it something he said? Perhaps it was the profundity of Bono's lyrics--perhaps Iain thought, 'You know, that is so true.' We'll probably never know.



(* - E.g., Susan)