Happy Thanksgiving!

Tonight a nice sized group gathered for our annual Thanksgiving dinner at McDonald's. We had a great time...lots of laughing, story-telling, and visiting with some Americans who are playing basketball for one of the Lithuanian basketball teams in Palanga (a town just north of Klaipeda.)

The entire group...we even had some Study Abroad students join us this year!

front- Dylan, Katie, David & Erik

middle-ish - Sherry, Ken, Amy, me, Erika, Karrissa, and Destiny

back - Mark, Gregg, Esther, Deb, Logan, and John

clockwise (starting with me) - me, Mark, Sherry, John, Ken, Katie, Dylan, and Amy

Gregg and his boys - David & Erik

FYS 2010 Reunion

Each year I try to have at least one reunion with my former FYS groups.  Tonight I got together with the group from my first year at LCC.  Even though only a few were able to make it, we had a great time catching up with one another and enjoying a Thanksgivingish meal!

Oleskii, Paul, me, Sasha, and Ira

Ira came over for a few hours on Monday night and arrived early tonight to help me cook for the meal.  What a HUGE blessing!  She did the bulk of the chopping and dicing and even stuffed her first deviled eggs!

Turkey and stuffing casserole

Sweet potatoes

Deviled Eggs

Tree Fluffing...a Christmas tradition

The Student Life Department had our annual "Tree Fluffing" party today!  We prepared the trees to be decorated on Saturday during Orange Saturday.  We, in true Student Life style, added food to our tasks to make it more fun!  :)

The spread..cookies, fruit, fun punch, and my plate of chocolate dipped pretzels!

Olena and Bethany

Amanda and Scrooge

Alisha 

Amanda busy fluffing away!  

RA Thanksgiving!

It is a tradition for the RDs and I to make a Thanksgiving meal for the RAs.  We did it this afternoon.  It was lots of work, but so worth it...delicious food and a fabulous time of fellowship!

I made my mom's sweet potatoes!  Yumm!

Alisha made homemade green bean casserole...complete with the french fried onions!  

Josh made his mom's butternut squash pie

And Josh made his FIRST turkey!  

What a plate of deliciousness!!!  

What a glorious spread of food!  :)  

Friday Night Fun!

On Friday evening Amanda came over and we made dinner together.  We also watched a movie and chatted.  A great way to end the week!

We made fried rice

and eggrolls!

Here we are with our tasty food!

Amanda fell asleep during the movie...it was a LONG week!  :)

Minute to Win It!

Res Life hosted a trivia game show this week called "Minute to Win It."  I was the judge and official scorekeeper, so I had to dress up.  My wardrobe isn't very fancy, but my sparkly scarf dressed me up enough to do the job.  :)  I was busy keeping score, so I didn't get a chance to get many photos, but I did get this nice one of me and Amanda!  :)

me & Amanda

Tri S

Marlene and I are leading a TriS group again this year.  We had our second meeting of this semester this week and were sure to get a photo of the group!

Marlene, Hannah, me, Hannah, Christy, Missy, Lindsay, Brady, and Agustin

A silly photo with everyone touching each other!  :)