And the Thanksgiving Dummy award goes to.....

JENN!!! I had only 2 things to prepare for Thanksgiving today and I ruined 1 of them. I was put in charge of rolls and my famous chocolate pie. I had some rolls, but couldn't find more so I got Rhodes bread loafs. I got up early this morning to start the rising of the rolls and bread. I was going to put the loafs in the oven with boiling hot water to make the rising go quicker. So I get the loafs ready, oven is warming, I turn on the stove to heat my water and turn to do the dishes. After a few minutes I started smelling burning and figured I just spilt something in the oven and it was burning off. The smell got worse, so I turned on our cool little febreeze air thing to make the house smell Fallish. I was done with dishes and was going to put the bread and water in oven. When I turned I saw that I turned on the wrong burner and was not heating the water, I was heating the bread in my glass dish (which is my favorite because it was our brownie dish). Seeing that the dish is REALLY HOT, I get oven mitts but the glass is sticking to the stove. I get Josh in there and he finally gets it to move. I was afraid the glass would break because of the extreme hotness (is that a word?) anyways, Josh no sooner got it to the other side of the stove when KABOOM!! Glass was everywhere! It sounded like a bomb went off! Luckily Josh had on his glasses and I throw a dish towel over my eyes, because if we hadn't I'm sure we would have gotten glass in the eyes! I took pictures of the aftermath, but you can't really see the glass on the stove or counter. So, we had to throw the rolls and bread loafs out because when the dish broke, pieces went into the other dishes and I don't want to eat rolls or bread with a glass piece in it. So, Josh being my hero, ran to HEB and found some other type of roll that we can have today. No rising required, just a quick warm up in the oven!

The bread loafs after we threw them outside to "cool" off. A huge piece of glass had stuck to the bread.

Atleast my pie turned out this year! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Kirra Ann

Here are some pictures of my little neice, Kirra. I think she looks like her daddy, Jeff. But she also resembles her Uncle Jared. Enjoy!

Kirra Ann Martin

Kirra Ann joined the world November 20. She was 7lbs. 5 oz. My brother Jeff called me from Iraq to give me the wonderful news. From what Laurie told Jeff, Kirra has dark hair, blue eyes and big feet (those come from her mother, apparently). I don't have a picture yet, but as soon as I get one, it will be posted. Welcome to the family Kirra Ann!!