The nights during Thanksgiving weekend are long (usually Todd is up until about 5:00 am playing computer) so he likes to sleep in. Tayson, Adam and Luke took the opportunity the morning after Thanksgiving to learn how to make poo on youtube then they placed it on the bed next to Todd (I took a quick picture of course). Sadly, he sleeps so deeply that he knocked it off before he woke up to see it - but the picture made him laugh so hard.

in case you were wondering...the instructions for making poo are taking an empty toilet paper roll, soaking it in water, tearing it to small pieces, then squishing out the water to form a poo shape.

It wouldn't be a Schultz Thanksgiving without feats of strength. It all started with Trevor and Danny arm wrestling...after Danny got called out. Danny won. Then we moved on. I'm not sure all the battles that happened - but Danny was dethroned as family champion by Trent. I'm pretty sure he'll be ready for next year :)



Other fun family games we played this weekend: ping pong, volleyball, cranium, werewolves and lots and lots and lots of computer gaming.

Of course my camera was out of batteries on Thanksgiving...thank goodness my phone has a camera. This year we had a huge group for Thanksgiving. Everyone was here except Sherry's family and Ginger and Kelly from our side and Christine's family came too so we had 50+ people for dinner. Beforehand we decided to split up the day. We did appetizers at my house at 11:30, then dinner at my parent's house at 3:00, then dessert at Christine's house that night. It was nice to spread out the preparation and clean up as well as move the chaos around a bit.

There were 22 of us who did the run this year and we made new race shirts this year. I loved the sea of blue numbered shirts all weekend. So much fun! I love that everyone is willing to be crazy and get up early on Thanksgiving and go run or walk in 7 degree weather. It was crazy cold this year and even though I was willing to not run this year - everyone was all over racing. It was super fun once we got there and went for it. I love my family!!!







Here are the details:
Sophie: 1:24.8 - 100 meter dash and she got 1st place (since she was the only 2 year old girl)

Luke: 5:15 - 1/2 mile

Tayson: 8:07 - mile

Me: 31:34 - 4 mile (7:54 pace and 5th in my age group)

Tayson did a fun Thanksgiving program at school. As you can tell he loved that I came and watched him. Before we even left the school he went in the bathroom and tried washing off the face paint. He actually sang some of the songs - big change for him. It was so fun to watch him.

It snowed on Sunday...not a lot of snow but good thick heavy snow. The best for snowballs and making snowmen. So right after church the kids all bundled up and went outside to make a snowman. They used pretty much all of the snow to make it but our little Frosty turned out great and the kids had a blast. The kids were very happy to be a part of grandma's first snowman and help her get pictures for a winter scrapbook page. And to top it off we had a great reason to use our new hot cocoa machine.

On Saturday when Todd's mom was here we decided to have some family fun. So we took the kids bowling at Fat Cats. The kids loved bowling!!

2 1/2 year old girl. Endless energy. Can destroy anything. Loves to be naked. Jumps and skips constantly (even after climbing on the counters). Excellent climber. Amazing wall artist. Gives lots of hugs and open mouth kisses. Can melt your heart or make you scream within 30 seconds flat.