We spent this Thanksgiving with the Cramer fam + the Langfoss fam hollering and cheering for the great Packers. It definitely was entertaining. I am just glad they won...otherwise Thanksgiving may have not gone so well over at the Cramer household. After their win, we happily stuffed our pie holes with lots of turkey, mashed taters, rich gravy, the traditional pound cake, rolls lathered in butter, pickles, salad, and then about eight different pies. SO GOOD. Can we do it this Thursday again?
After the wonderful food, the men returned to their football and the ladies got their CRAFT on (my favorite part). The craft for this holiday was Martha Stewart Style slippies, fabric earrings, and flower rings. I really can't get enough of these slippers and earrings. I love them and they are fairly simple to make! For the earrings, all you need is
Buttons
Earring backs
Cute Fabric
Glue Gun
You then cut a small circle of fabric, enough to wrap around the button and glue the fabric onto the button. You then glue the earring back on to the fabric covered button...and TA DA. You have extremely cute earrings.
So that was Thursday -- just the beginning of our holiday adventures. We left early Friday morning for Madison, WI. YAYY Madison. We love it there. I mean look at it!
Very beautiful. But the reason that we headed up there is because of my amazing grandparents, fun uncle, and sweet great aunt (who is like a second grandmother and just turned ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD in October). My grandparents put our stomachs to work the moment we arrived. They stuffed us with delicious tortilla soup and then later that evening with salmon loaf (like meatloaf but with salmon), seven layer salad, and cranberry bread, oh yes and then triple berry pie. And they don't ever let us have just one serving. It's more like three or four servings.
Then Friday evening we hung out with my uncle, helped him with his new iPod, and then went bowling. I really am not good at all, but Curt and Tom were pros. I was just happy to get a score about 75, but I still had a ton of fun. And I know Tom loved it, he whooped the crap out of us!
The next day we woke up to the smell of pancakes and porkies (a Cramer tradition). I think we both had six pancakes and at least a dozen porkies. Again, they stuffed us like empanadas. We then went over to my Aunt Inez's apartment and spent the morning with her. She is the sweetest lady I have ever met. I love her and I am so glad that Curt has been able to meet her as well. She doesn't remember things as well anymore and says the cutest things. We were talking about her birthday party and she asked us how old she turned. When we told her she is 100 years old, she replied, "What! How awful!" But in reality, it's a great achievement.
Afterwards, Curt and I browsed around at the mall and Savers (a nice resale shop). It's always fun to window shop and walk around with your favorite man in the world. We tend to head to the mall in Lafayette when we have nothing else to do, but it definitely is not as nice at the malls in Madison. We then met up with some of our good good friends who were driving by...Brooke and Phil Sadler! We love them so much and then are soon to be expecting their first baby! I am soo excited for them. They moved to Minnesota this summer and we miss them a lot. We went to this great pub and ate more food (WI mac & cheese and Brat burgers with bacon and cheese curds). So that was definitely a highlight.
Later that evening, grandma, grandpa, Tom, Curt, & I headed to Outback and enjoyed delicious foods there. (I think I was still full from the night before!) Then headed to Tom's apartment and played cards. He again came out on top and ended up with a pocket full of quarters. Then we chilled and watched a movie. Another great great day.
We then drove home Sunday morning and had to face a lot of annoying traffic. But Curt and I remedied this by a little game I invented. I would whistle a Christmas tune and he would guess the song. We discovered that either I am a horrible whistler (probably not) or Curt is just a darn stinky guesser (most likely). It probably doesn't help that I can only whistle in one tune...but still. It sounded great. We then ended up creating our own Christmas songs and hope to release an album by next holiday season.
The End.
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