Thanksgiving Days

Well...our kitchen is now complete! The plumbers came this morning to hook up water to the sink, the dishwasher and finish our bathroom upstairs. Yipp-eee. Koncno! (Konchno) (That's "finally" in Slovene, and I just like the way it's pronounced.)

Here are a couple pics from before the sink was finished, but the cabinets are in. We are really enjoying all of it! I have to get used to having wood countertops, I'm not sure how much "wear and tear" they can take and feel really protective of them right now. I really like that 'old' look, so I really should just relax...

Even Abigail is enjoying the cupboards! (These pics are for you Dad!) This is her latest "fun" face. She makes it a lot, which we laugh at, and then she does it more. She's quite the little ham these days.

Look at those long, curly lashes that she inherited from her Dada. Lucky girl!!

And speaking of her Dada...
He took our cheapy Ikea table that we bought 4 years ago and which we had stained with a white stain finish and sanded the top down and then re-stained it with an oak stain to match the counters. He was disappointed at first because the white stain wasn't coming off, but in the end, it really turned out very cool! He has been doing so many projects around the house, it's so fulfilling for him and especially nice for me! He's enjoying having a "work area" out in the garage and has his eye on new tools at the Home Depot type store now that he has a garage and work area. He has several other projects in mind now that he feels so confident after doing the table.

So on Thursday after the cabinets were finished being installed we headed to that new mall, which was super-packed with people! I guess they didn't care that it was a holiday in the US. : ) It was fun to walk around and see all the new stores. Mom, I can't wait to go shopping with you there in March!

Then on Friday we had our own little family Thanksgiving which was fun to fix in our new kitchen even though we had to wash everything afterward in the bathroom sink. Our turkey was huge for just the three of us...15 pounds and cost over $45!! But it was the only one available so we'll be eating turkey for the rest of the month probably! Turkey soup, turkey pot-pie, turkey sandwiches...

Then today we headed to our friends, the Jackson's house to have Thanksgiving with a bunch of other American & a few Slovene friends. There were 19 of us all-together, 7 of which were kids, so Abigail had a blast! At one point, there was a "talent show" for the kids and Abigail loved watching it all. Then one of the girls, Meagan, played a song on the piano and Abigail started dancing to it. It was really hilarious. Stevo, our teammate in Croatia was video taping it, so we hope to get a copy of it and if so, I'll post it for you. Oh my! It was so funny!

So here's a slideshow from today! Enjoy!


So Happy Thanksgiving dear family....we love you all!

'Shooter' the puppy-what a cutie

This was Shooter, the little puppy belonging to one of the caregivers. Mom really liked it, wanted it for her own, of course! We went to the doctor on Monday, Savannah's last day with us, and her and mom were coming in her car. She told mom to take the puppy out to the grass, instead mom put the puppy in the closet!! Really trying to make that dog her own!

Thanksgiving 2007 supplemental

These pictures actually go with the post below but for some reason Piccasa didn't post them.

Thanksgiving 2007

Thanksgiving 2007
Tony was able to come down from Fort Lewis and Mike, Heather, Steven and Emma came from LaPine.
We all went to Frank and Vicky's for dinner. All total there were about 20 people there.
Frank and Vicky changed there garage into a dining room and they finished the project about 2 hours before the dinner. The room really came out nice and there was plenty of room for all of us.

Almost!

They come back tomorrow morning at 8 to install the counters and all the hardware, shelves and I think that's it. Yippee! We love it!

1000%

That's what Domen (the cabinet guy) said on Monday about the cabinets being ready to be delivered and installed on Wednesday. He's already told me "100%" a couple times without delivery so maybe 100 meant 10 and 1000 means 100???

Then he called tonight and said they're coming for sure, just not sure what time yet. On Monday he said 8 or 8:30, tonight he said, 9 or 10. But at least they're coming! Joel scheduled the plumber to come tomorrow afternoon to hook up the sink and dishwasher and finish installing the bathroom upstairs.

Wow! We can't wait!

And it's all just in time for Thanksgiving. We feel like we have so much to be thankful for this year!
Oh...and a fun thing (well, for me, not so much for Joel) is that a new shopping mall is opening here in Kranj, 9am on Thursday morning. It's going to have two great new stores, one of which is my favorite over here, H&M. The other one, C&A is sort-of like a smaller scale JCPenney or maybe a Mervyn's and they're offering the first 100 customers a game piece where 10 people will win a 100Euro gift card. I told Joel "it's like Day after Thanksgiving Shopping! Yippee!!" He said, "oh yeah, yippee...."I need Mom over here!!

He said he'd go anyway. There is going to be lots of fun stuff going on and Abigail will really like it too. So fun, fun, fun!

Family

This video is about a month and a half old, but I thought you might like to see it anyway. It's pretty cute. Enjoy!