OUR STORY: Just us girls

It's Thanksgiving Day and it's just us girls...

No, we did not take this picture today... Today we have been "roughin" it and I would have received great wrath for taking pictures and posting them on this blog. ~~We are actually "roughin it" in this picture come to think of it.~~

The boys {Dad and Aaron}, are in Alberta, Canada hunting for the week. {It's the peak of the rut up there}. It was reported that Rocky Mountain House was the coldest place on Earth this past Tuesday. Yes, colder than the North Pole, Antartica, Alaska, you name it. Thankfully they were well prepared and are bundled up. This was the state of our living room on Saturday night.

We sure do miss them but we're making the most of our girls-only week. It's been really really fun! We've been cookin' in the kitchen, staying up late talking, watching Netflix movies, going to the movies... it's kind of nice to have a week of nothing but chick flicks and "chick food" as Aaron calls it.

Today we had plans to drive to Jackson to spend Thanksgiving at my Grandmomma and Grandaddy's house {just like we do every year} with all our family but at 5 am this morning, I had a dental disaster {you readers who know about my dental history will know the exact kind of disaster I'm talking about! No laughing ok?!!}. So anyways, our big Thanksgiving Day plans went down the drain and my outlook of the day was turned into this.

I was looking so forward to seeing my family I don't get to see very often, eating Grandmomma's good cookin' and Grandaddy's turkey... I was bummed.

After my little pity party, I decided to turn my frown upside down and be THANKFUL today... We made ourselves a small Thanksgiving feast of Brunswick stew and pecan pie.

We've been doing a lot of this-

... and a lot of this-

It's a good thing we've been bums all day because we will be needing our energy for midnight tonight. Yes, we will be getting a head start on Black Friday at the outlets in Foley. It's gonna be hardcore!

Back to today... Remember a few posts ago, when I said I loved hot weather? Well I still do, but not on Thanksgiving. I was playing around with my camera in the yard this morning and it looks and feels like dadgum springtime here! See for yourself!

Rocky decided to model in a few... He thinks he's a lion.

No really, he does.

He's a pretty little lion though.

While we were outside we picked our "harvest" of satsumas. Do y'all eat these gems? They're like a cross between an orange and a tangerine, kind of. They're delicious.