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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE GRANTS!

It's a Family Feud kind of Christmas

I hope everyone is having a fun holiday so far. I love Christmas and get very excited about Christmas. These are some labor intensive cookies I made. I think it took me about two days to make the dough, cut them out, make the icing, put in the different colors of food coloring and then actually make them. Totally. Worth it.


My friend Jacy sent me this in an email so I thought I would make it into a post since it's pretty entertaining. Ok, these are Family Feud questions. If you need an idea to post on your blog then you can take this but you have to answer them with the first thing that comes to your mind and you can't use my answers.

1. Name something you use in the shower? Razor

2. Name something a football player wears under his uniform? cup

3. Name something people hate to find on their windshield? bird crap

4. What is something a man might buy before a date? condoms

5. What is another word for blemish? pimple

6. Something you cook in the microwave? popcorn

7. Name a piece of furniture people need help moving? piano

8. Name a reason a younger man might like an older woman? She's lonely and easy

9. Name something a dog does that embarrasses its owner? drag its butt across the floor

10. Name a kind of test you cannot study for? drug test

11. Name something a boy scout gets a badge for? camping

12. Name a phrase with the word home in it: "Don't be such a home-o-phobe."

13. Name a sport where players loose teeth: hockey

14. Name something a teacher can do to ruin a student's day? show up for class

15. What is a way you can tell someone has been crying? runny nose

16. Name a bird you wouldn't want to eat? vulture

17. Name something a person wears even if it has a hole in it? crotchless panties

18. Name something that gets smaller the more you use it? lipstick

This is a clip of my all time favorite Family Feud episode. It is actually called Family Fortunes in Great Britain (England, France, where ever it is) and this guy is the best contestant ever! Watch one of his family members face when it pans to them after he is finished. The guy looks like he wants to kill him!! You tube is sucking lately so you might need to press play, then pause it and let it run all the way and then watch it. It's worth it, I promise.

A Look Back

Please, don't be discouraged. I have returned. The Grants had a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving with my uncle Leroy, cousin Marie and her son Marcus. Ben and I cooked a big dinner and it was thrilling if I do say so myself. It is now a hectic month of work and I am trying to complete everything by the 22nd since my in-laws are coming on the 23rd for Christmas which we are super excited about. Cheri and David, my in-laws, were here last year for New Years. This trip also fell on David's fiftieth birthday. We always have a good time when we are together so if last year is any indication of how this year's trip will go, we will be having a good time. Here is last year, in pictures (and video). Ben and I got a pair of Leroy's old dentures and put them in a cup. We also borrowed a walker from Leroy. We had to make fun of David, I mean he was officially an old man. I think it's funny Leroy had all of these "old person" items sitting around his house. He even said he had a wheelchair if we needed one. Here is a video of David celebrating his birthday, old man style. Watch until the end. Classic Eleanor...


After one too many glasses of wine, Cheri decided to put balloons on her head.

After one too many glasses of wine, the rest of us said "Why Cheri, that does indeed look like fun."




We ate a really nice restaurant in Atlanta to celebrate the big 5-0 called Rathbuns.


For New Years, our friends Tucker and Erika decided to join in on the fun. They think we are Texas freaks. They think anyone from Texas is a Texas freak and I tend to agree with them so I made some Texas inspired cookies for the Mostellers to enjoy.


I decided we needed a picture of everyone before the ball dropped. I put the camera on the mantle and told everyone to get in the picture.

"Cheri, put down the bottle and get in position." (Classic Cheri-bottom left of pic!)

"Why isn't this working? Let me move the camera over so everyone is in the picture this time." "Hey, what happened to David?? At least Eleanor made it in this time."

Oops.

It's a Grant/Mosteller kind of New Year!


I cut my hair off. About 6 inches. It's been YEARS since I had short hair. Thoughts?


Oh yeah, and Penelope tried to pickpocket my cousin over the holidays.

She was exhausted after her crime spree so she decided to relax by the fire.