Merry Christmas

Cara and I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. To show how excited we are for the Christmas season, we have been practicing a short song and dance. Enjoy!!
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Our cats Hobbs and Hermione joined us on this one. They love Christmas also.
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New favorites

These are some fun jewelry pieces I have found on etsy lately, aren't they beautiful? Although I don't think I would ever actually pay 128 dollars for a necklace!

Frankenmuth

The only "mountains" we have seen out here
These wood cut out things were all around the town
German children fountain
I think this is supposed to be the pied piper




This store was amazing, it is about 10 football fields worth of christmas decorations
Dept. 56

We have had a really fun Thanksgiving weekend. We had a great dinner with my sister and her family and another family from the ward. On friday Jackson woke up early to take advantage of the Black Friday deals. We went to the outlets and then drove up to. It was settled by German immigrants and they have tried to keep a germanic feel in the town. It was really fun, they had german restaurants and german chocolate stores all over the place. Frankenmuth is also home to the biggest christmas store in the world, Bronners. It was amazing there were so many things everywhere.

Michigan vs. Ohio State

It was a very cold, wet day at the Big House. It rained the entire time and was about 34 degrees. We went with my brother Derek and my brother in law Ryan.
A bus with music blasting from it and people drinking and dancing all around it.
Go Big Blue
It is hard to tell but this picture really shows about 5 blocks worth of street filled with people.
This t-shirt was one of the only ones that I saw that was appropriate for blogging, most the others would have needed editing.
I think the attendance number was 111,940 people
It was the second biggest crowd in the stadiums history.

It was a very interesting experience to attend this game, disappointing but interesting. There was a very definite hostility between the fans, after the game there was a fight in the street between a very drunk Ohio State fan and a very angry Michigan fan, after the game ended an Ohio state fan was so touched by the victory he started to cry, those are just two experiences from the day. After the game ended and everyone was leaving it was really quiet, everyone was subdued, except the Ohio State fans who were cheering and singing. I have to say Ohio State has the only visiting fans that I have ever seen get an audible chant going around the stadium. All in all it was a very fun but cold day. We hope our other team has a better rivalry week outcome. Go Utes!

Here is a link to a movie on my sisters blog that has the cutest Michigan Fan!http://familyparker.blogspot.com/2007/11/hail-to-victors-valiant.html

Happy Veterans Day

This is a picture of my favorite veteran, my Grandpa! He served during World War 2 in the Signal Corps. He is amazing! I don't have a picture of him but Jacksons Grandpa is also a veteran of World War 2 in the Marines, he is also awesome, he still does push ups every morning! Click this link http://familyparker.blogspot.com/2007/11/grandpa.html to read a great post by my sister about my wonderful Grandpa, she also included one of my all time favorite pictures of him!

Harry Potter

I am about 9 years behind, yes it is true! I didn't start reading Harry Potter until last month. I just finished the fourth book last night and I have to say I am really enjoying the books so far! One nice thing about starting so late is that I don't have to wait for the next book to come out, all I have to do is go to my sisters house to get the next book, it is quite convenient!

Pizza Party

Nate and Missy making the pizzas

Heather was in charge of quality control
Camille and Eliza

Last week we had a really fun pizza party at our house. We made some delicious pepperoni, BBQ chicken, Thai and chicken club pizzas! It was really fun!