turkey day

I am very excited for the coming thanksgiving! Every year my whole family and I go over to Iowa and spend the break with most of my family. I would say on average there are about thirty people who I enjoy thanksgiving with each year. Needless to say, with that many people you need a lot of food. My mom began baking for the dinner last night and she made cranberry cookies and regular chocolate chips too. I have always told her not to put nuts in the cookies but she likes them so she added nuts all the time. However, this year I got her to agree that the cookies don’t need the nuts. As good as her cookies are the thing I am the most excited for is the crazy amounts of turkey and gravy followed by a big poker game. I have grown up loving pie but not really pumpkin pie. My grandpa is an abide pie maker and he makes some crazy good rhubarb and apple pie that is to die for. One of my favorite parts of going to Iowa is seeing my family whom i rarely get to see, all the little kids and aunts and uncles, and cousins. That’s what thanksgiving is really all about. Have a great thanksgiving everybody! Gobble Gobble!

As of this Friday I will be going to the Iowa Hawkeyes versus Michigan State Spartans game at Iowa. Just last week Iowa had a raging upset against Michigan and now it is time for state to go down! My sister currently attends the University of Iowa so she scored me a ticket in the student section and I will use my cousin’s ID who also goes there. I have been so excited recently to be able to see my sister and go to this game. I have even been talking to Tyler, saying that we already beat Michigan adding a state to it won’t make it any harder.  His counter argument was they beat Michigan as well so it is no point to stand on. However, I will continue to brag and if for any bind blowing reason Iowa losses I will eat my words and submit to him, but until that time I will do all the dirty talk warfare I can! This is my first game attending of the season and they have yet to lose a home game so if they lose this one I am the jinx and shouldn’t go to anymore games for the rest of the season.