almost Turkey day... and then CHRISTMAS!!!!!

I am cooking a turkey for Thanksgiving! Yup, you read that right! Me! Joanne is confident she can teach me (she hasn't spent much time in a kitchen with me!) so I'm gonna give it a try! Don't worry, I have a Little Ceasar's a block away and I already made sure they are open on Thursday, just in case! Ryleigh has learned to say "gobble gobble", so as you can see, we are all ready for a wonderful Thanksgiving! After lunch at our house Ryleigh and I are heading down to Corpus for my traditional shopping with Bette trip! And Ryan is staying home to watch the Longhorn/Aggie game, of course! woohooo for a fun week! Which I think is in order since it started out so icky. Let me just say that today and yesterday have been two of the worst days in a long time! I have been BATTLING with a horrible agent at State Farm for seven months now to settle my injury claim from the car accident. Now you tell me how he can (with any sense of right and wrong) treat me like the bad guy and make me jump through flaming hoops to get every little piece of information for him multiple times, never return calls, try to close my claim before all the bills were in, and generally treat my like crap. If I were an agent I would at least be polite to the people that MY CLIENT (the illegal unlicensed driver nonetheless!) had hit! How hard is that?!? Nothing makes me angrier than feeling helpless, and after all the work I have done to get this claim closed, and the countless hours on the phone, running back and forth to Office Depot to fax things, calling to try to have someone confirm they're there, them losing the fax, me going back again... you get the picture! And it's STILL not over. It makes me so angry that this is STILL consuming my life, all these months later! argh!!!! Ok, enough ranting and raving. Whatever. It will be over soon and we will have some money (well earned at this point, I think!) to add to savings. Anywhoo....
In other news, I am practically giddy for the Christmas season to actually begin!! Ryan tells me I have to wait until it's actually December to put up the tree and begin decorating the house... we'll see! I really don't think I have the willpower to make it that long! lol! I've already been secretly rockin' out to Christmas music all day while he's at work! Roo loves this random song by George Strait called Mrs. Santa Claus - she sings "ho ho ho" along with it and it's just adorable! I am so excited b/c I think she's old enough now to get into Christmas more, and maybe just maybe won't scream bloody murder at Santa?! I want some cute pics!! You know that's the most wonderful part of the most wonderful time of the year is - PICTURES! I would rather have the pictures than all the presents! Here are a few of my faves from last year...