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December 2, 2010 M. Sullivan Photography Cooking, Family, Photos

Thanksgiving, Skating and Bentleyville

We had quite the Thanksgiving weekend. Three days of food, family and fun. Since we didn’t eat and visit enough with Mike’s family on Thursday and Friday, we spent Saturday afternoon at my brother’s house for more turkey and conversation.

Here’s the recap of the weekend:

Day #1 – Thanksgiving – Not many pictures from this day. Too busy cooking, eating and cleaning up.

Day #2 – Skating at the DECC

All twelve Sullivans, plus our friends, The Pellers, embarked on the DECC to skate off the turkey and dessert ingested the day before. We had a great time skating, shooting pucks and watching Mike P. make a skate train with the kids.

Hop Aboard The Skate Train — Hop Aboard the Skate Train

Still Day #2 – Bentleyville

Day #3 – Say Goodbye to the Cities Sullivans – Say Hello to the Johnsons

Mike spent part of the morning deep-frying a turkey to take to my brother’s house. After the Cities Sullivans left, we headed over the my brother’s for Thanksgiving with my side of the family. We had a chance to see some nieces and nephews that we hadn’t seen in a while, including Adam and Ana who are expecting their first baby in April. Congratulations to you both!

We were all pretty tired by the end of the day, but grateful that we had family and friends to share our Thanksgiving weekend with.

November 1, 2010 M. Sullivan Photography Family, Photos

Mr. Bones – Our Milk Jug Skeleton

I was taking Daphne for a walk a couple of weeks ago and noticed a cool Halloween skeleton hanging from a neighbor’s porch. The skeleton was made from translucent gallon milk jugs. The next day I Googled “milk jug skeleton” and found a few different sites that had instructions and/or photos showing how to create one. I was actually hoping for a pattern or template that I could trace on the milk jugs, but couldn’t find one that would make it that easy. I printed off a few pictures and a couple of sets of instructions, sent out an email to co-workers begging for them to save their milk jugs and hoped that I could collect enough to make the skeleton.

I receive one milk jug from a co-worker the next day and our Chef at work had four more. Sophia and I made plans to start our skeleton when the boys went to the Friday night hockey game.

We cut out most of the pieces that evening. Head, chest, pelvis, leg bones and arm bones. Our hands were sore from cutting, so we hung up our scissors for the night.

We didn’t have time during the week to finish, so we left the pieces on the dining room table. It was a bit creepy having his skull laying there. Finally on Friday night, two days before Halloween, we cut out the remaining pieces. Sebastian was at a sleepover, but I was able to convince Mike (and Sophia) to help put him together. We used a hole punch to cut a hole in each piece and tied the bones together with fishing line.

We had a great time making Mr. Bones and will be able to use him again next year when we decorate for Halloween. Now we just need to find a place to store him. I think we may “hang” him from the ceiling in our storage room…or maybe we should find a box and tuck him away until next year.

October 31, 2010 M. Sullivan Photography Family, Photos

Happy Halloween

The kids began their weekend long celebration of Halloween with a costume parade at school on Friday. They also had classroom parties following the parade.

The kids were all ready to trick-or-treat today, but first we had to carve the pumpkins. Sebastian made a traditional jack-o-lantern and Mike and I made a skeleton skull.