Family/Fighting/Food/Fun/Grandpa of the Year

These pictures are out of order, but I don't feel like rearranging them... are too many. Just deal with it. This is my picture getting in my car to go home... it was such a bee-yoo-tiful night. To end a beautiful trip.

Here is Keili playing with Sariahs littlest pet shop. She looks so innocent... WELL... she's not.
Alex playing with everyone's dirty shoes. Of course... what else would a crawlin' baby be doing!
Sariah... on the attack. These two are either holding hands cuddling, or beating each other up. The perfect Love/Hate brother sister relationship.
Sarah and I braved the Black Friday madness. It was quite entertaining to say the least. All Sarah wanted was a pig for Sariah. And... she got it. It was so funny. She was digging through the pets and gets down and goes "Tahnee!!!! There's a pig back there." I said "Well get up there and get it. Climb on up!!! I got the camera."
Here is Rustin taking the kids for a ride in the beefed up 4 wheeler/trailer. They loved it. If the kids didn't already LOVE Grandma and Grandpa's they sure do now!

Bubba and Sariah... awe... cute...

THis is funny. Look at Davey in the back about to pick on Miley... Talk about caught in the act, and Sariah... she is enjoying the little things . She looks so free...
This is my favorite part of the whole weekend.... These next two pictures are after eating Thanksgiving dinner. We are arguing... Men vs Women about whether or not Twilight/Jacob/Edward are girl porn. LOL!!!! It was so funny. Talk about raised voices. Dave/Rustin/Rob all think that "romance" is the same thing to women as naked women are to men. GIVE ME A BREAK. It was so funny, there was lots of yelling, but lots of laughing too. We just decided that Men are insecure and that is why they hate Jacob and Edward. NOT because of Jacobs rippling biceps and freaking hot body, and amazingly amazing protectiveness and need I go on.

These are my Lion House Rolls. I made them... from scratch, from the Lion house recipe. They actually turned out good. The first pan burned a little on the bottom, We are calling them "Spurs" rolls. Not because the burnt bottom is like a spur... but because they sucked... like the San Antonio Spurs (also Rustin's favorite team). These are Jazz rolls. AMAZING!!!
Getting ready to put all the food out.
The turkey... we cooked it in the dutch oven... it was AMAZING!!!
Dad taking the kids for a ride. They love the 4 wheeler, and Grandpa.

And I qoute... Uhem... "I will gut you with this knife!" YES... my very own dear loving brother said that to me. I didn't even do anything... I was being pleasant. Loving. Cheerful. Kind. Awesome. Just as usual.
The kids getting ready to go.
And the award goes to Grandpa Nielsen for GRANDPA OF THE YEAR!!!!!

Okay... this is freaking hilarious. Look at Bubba on Grandpa's neck (it's the only place left for a bum) it's like he thinks he is flying. Okay... see that tree branch they are about to go under...


Bubba grabbed onto it... pulling him backwards, Dad grabbed him and he flung foward... look at Dad's hat. LOL!
Bubba... getting a talking to by his Mom. Now he's ready to go again. It was so funny. We were all s hocked and laughing at the same time.
See... he did good. No more grabbing things.


Davey wanted to drive. It didn't really happen. He tried his hardes to talk Grandpa into letting him drive around... but too many cars. A bus. other kids. Ya know... it's a no brainer.
Cute. This is Sarah and Bubba. He loves himself some Sarah.
Our Turkey cooking.

And now the horse rides. Here is Keili and Miley.
Davey and Sariah.
Bubba. Waving backwards.
I thought this one was cute. The sun is too bright one the left side, but what a cute bubba.
Sariah.
Keili
LOL! This is Miley. She HAD to have that backpack. Which is way too big for her, not to mention the kind that is supposed to roll on the ground. It's so huge, but she had to have it. That and notice her bottle on the side.
Mindy and Abby.

It was such a fun trip. It was fun to have everyone there. We even talked to Misty. It happened to be during the Edward/Jacob porn debate, but hey... Happy Thanksgiving/Family Get together. I love my family. They are all so awesome. I also bought the New Moon game at the black friday sale and Sarah, Nic, My Mom, and Myself all indulged in our so called "girl porn" for a couple hours on Friday afternoon. Rustin was whining... but he got over it.

"I love demolishing"

Something VERY funny happened on Saturday at the Rubow household. I know what you are thinking... NOT SHOCKING, right? Yeah... I know. Nic and Dave are finishing off a half bath off their family room. When they moved in the only access to the 1/2 bath was through the laundry, and let's be honest... whose laundry room servicing a family of 6 is clean? So... they opted to close in that door and create a new on off the family room-makes sense. Well, the problem they ran into was that the doorway didn't cover up as nicely as one would hope, you couldn't get the wall to smooth out around the door. Nic and I went over several options saturday morning as to how to either cover up the mistake, or fix it. I tried to sand it down, (cause now I am a professional sander-LOL, J/K) but the problem was the sheet rock was not hung flush. So... as i was standing there sanding I said... "Nic... this isn't going to work. You'd have to mud the rest of the top of this wall" I continue to sand.... then all of a sudden...
BAM!!!!!She wacked the wall with the hammer! RIGHT BY ME! Scared me to death! I think I peed in my pants just a little. LOL- okay, I didn't but it would have made it extra funny had I really. She started laughing, and once my stomach moved back down into it's rightful cavity, instead of being wedged in my throat, I started to laugh. She just goes "let's start all over." I was like "UH... you couldn't said that BEFORE hammering the wall?" So then I was like.... "where's my camera? This is blog material." Nic was like "WHAT! You don't take picture of this." I said, "Uh... do you know me at all. We are so blogging this!" Anyway... so here we are...
Destroying the wall. At one point Davey walks in and wants to hammer the wall, so Nic lets him, and then he proceeds to explain to me how he, and I qoute, "loves demolishing". I said... "yeah... that's not a suprise. You better believe you do." You know, not really referring to the wall.
Here is the beauty of parenthood vs singlehood. Baby cries...kids freak out....kid makes baby cry... baby eats sheet rock... Parent gets to calm, comfort, and control kids, while single person get to demolish 3/4 of the wall. I didn't mind....
PLUS... I had a helper. She was AMAZING. I just hope we didn't introduce her to a new coping mechanism. There is something very stress relieving about knocking down a wall. Who needs a punching bag when you got a hammer and some sheet rock.


What a mess we made... Nic and I werer so "white" literally, by the end of the project.
Almost done. We were also trying to finish before Dave got home from work. I have to share out dialog:

Me: Do you kind of want to finish before Dave gets home to prove that we can really do this, without a man's help?
Nic: Yep

So... we finished, measured and cut the new sheet rock and put it in.... why in the world I didn't take a picture of the new sheet rock hung and mudded is beyond me, but we did get it up and almost mudded (well round 1 of mudding) before Dave got home.
Yes... we are amazing! Thanks to our Dad who made sure to teach his girls how to do anything.

Okay... so later that night Nic and Dave went to get Keili and Miley some winter clothes cause it snowed all day and they didn't have any... They looked so....
Christmas Story, not to take pictures....

Miley
Keili