<-----The "surgeon" Kyle busy at work. Kelly, JaNae and Sandy decided to try a new garlic-turkey recipe. The whole house smelled like garlic for the entire day!! But it was really good....
Whenever we come to Nevada, well.....paying cards is always something we have to do....Nevada is the "gambling state" after all. Following a delicious turkey dinner and a few rounds of a card game JaNae and I have been playing lately, Kyle got the grand idea to teach the girls Texas Hold-em Poker. Mind you, JaNae nor Kelly have ever played the game.
I had a GREAT hand. Pocket Kings!!! After a few rounds of betting and a 4 of a kind Kings, I went all in!!!!
To my shock, JaNae called my bet. She bet all of her money............
Was I in trouble? After all I had the one of the best hand in poker.....
She then showed her 4 Aces and took all my money! She ended up taking everyone's money....
On Friday, Mike and Kyle woke up early to go to Cabela's for some good deals but ended up at Sheels-an outdoors store. It is huge-they just build a new one in Reno, but most of the stores are in the Midwest. They went shooting with Kyle's dad and brothers to "test out" their new toys....
While the boys did that, JaNae, Kelly, and Sandy went to see "4 Christmases." They said that the movie wasn't very good, and that although the previews were funny-of course the rest of the movie was a bore. All the funny parts were in the previews. Why does that always happen????
Saturday, we drove around and bought some last-minute gifts for our "Christmas" to each other that night. For dinner, we had some really good NY Strips from Costco and finished it up with pie. I think Mike ate an entire Pumpkin pie this weekend. He LOVES it!!! Mike and Kyle went back to Sheels to salivate over guns, while Kelly, JaNae and Sandy watched "The Holiday." Kyle doesn't like movies, so Kelly has to get as much chick-flick movie watching in as she can....
All-in-all it was a good break from life, but back to work/school on Monday!!
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When we came home tonight, we decided to finish our decorating. JaNae always does so good at making our home look nice at Christmas time.
Last week, (before Reno) we bought some new lights at Wal-mart because JaNae wanted lights on the tree that were red and white. You would think that buying a strand of red and a strand of white/clear-that came from the same store, and was the same brand and everything (the only difference was the color bulb) that you could just take one out of one strand and swap the colors-right?? Were we the only one's who would ever think that??? Well guess what- you can't! The little green stem that actually goes into the light socket is a different shape on the red strand than it is on the white/clear. So, we pulled 400 bulbs out of every-other light and rewired them to have the "correct socket" so as to have the lights alternate red/white on each strand. It was fun-to say the least....
My Mom gave JaNae a new nativity for her Christmas Present in Reno, and she loves it.
She collects them and as you may or may not be able to see from the photo-she has a lot of them!
