Thanksgibbin Weekend

Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday of the year. You get to spend time with the family without the stress that can sometimes be associated with all of the activities of celebrating Christmas. I was very happy to finally be back state-side for Thanksgiving after taking a two year sabbatical of sorts. (I celebrated in Italy with my good friends Sarah and Tim 2007, and celebrated with my girlfriends Jenny, Rachel and Betsy over a bowl of Irish stew in Ireland 2008). This Thanksgiving weekend was jammed full of fun times and good memories.



1st Annual Sherplante Turkey Trot

This year Thanksgiving started out continuing a tradition of running with my brother Matt in the morning. We typically would brave the coldest temperatures to run in the Minneapolis Turkey Trot 5K. This year we opted to make our own 5K-ish run from their house. We say it's a 5Kish run so that we have the flexibility of making the run shorter if we want :) - this year our 5Kish run was 1.5 miles. We had a fairly good audience on our run, and I think we were able to burn off just enough calories to compensate for our breakfast of cinnamon toast!

Later that day we spent up at Casey's parent's house. I think there were about 14 of us there to eat together. I had fun hearing some good stories about Casey's mom and her sisters. Like I said at the beginning of the post the afternoon was full of good times and good memories.


Tool-Time
Friday after was not spent shopping like some do but just getting stuff done around the house. I also chose to use my time to check something off of the "House-Project" list- installing a garbage disposer. I'm not too handy of a person but I love puzzles so this project was sort of right up my alley and was fun too! I got to try my hand at some basic electrical work and plumbing. After 7 trips to Home Depot all is done and it purrs like a kitten. Below on the left is a picture right after I got Casey's help putting the disposer in the sink. On the right is the finished product. Pretty cool huh?





O Christmas Tree!
Another first this year for me was actually going to a tree farm and cutting down our own Christmas Tree. On Saturday, we drove out to a tree farm by Katie's house and I got to try my hand at cutting down our first tree. It took us awhile to find the right one but the one we found looks perfect in our house. (And smells good too!)


Happy Holidays!