Random and Thanksgiving

Couch time after family pictures...

Little bro enjoying some legos...

Until big bro swoops in to take them away...

First fire in our porch fireplace...

S'mores get two thumbs up from E...

Phil and I enjoyed a fun and unique date night at the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival in Watercolor.  The festival comes here every year and features a number of short adventure-type films.  It was cold that night and we were snuggly under a big blanket in our lawn chairs with a yummy bottle of wine.  It was such a great night.

Fancy-schmansy tent where we ordered food and wine and rubbed elbows with rich people.  Lol.

 

Reid after church one day with Phil's brother in the background.  Lol!  Sometimes Davis looks so much like Ed...

The most beautiful day at the beach.   Weather was amazing and water was so clear.

A little football action...

Water was freezing, but the boys went in, of course.

Davis has his life vest on here, but you can see from my pants that that wasn't always the case.  He was submerged for a few seconds at one point while I ran from my chair into the water to yank him up.  He must have been holding his breath, though, because he was totally fine and didn't cough or sputter at all. Phil ran to the car for the life jacket right after that.  :)

Shivering...

This had me cracking up... Phil carried D by his life vest back to the car to keep him from getting all sandy (since he was soaking wet).  D loved it.

More fire time...

 

Leslie and her fam were camping at the Florida Caverns Nat'l Park one weekend (which is kind of close to us) so we met them up there for the day and toured the caverns...

Our sweet homeschool group on our last school day of the year...

Emmett's class... He loves his teacher so much and she is just the sweetest.

Pasting our innards onto our bodies as the culmination of our anatomy study...

Writing letters for our Operation Christmas Child boxes. We recently found out that our boxes went to the Central African Republic and Chad.  Pretty cool!

Chick-fil-a carpet picnic by the fire (plus Looney Tunes) while Dad was gone...

A fun morning with friends at a nature park nearby.  Here we are gazing at an alligator down in that muck...

 

The boys found a burned area with a bunch of blackened sticks and were in heaven...

Especially Reid...

And then it was Thanksgiving!!  Phil was able to switch his day-after-Thanksgiving shift with someone at the last minute so we were able to go to my aunt and uncle's house in Jacksonville! We stayed one night there and we all just had the best time.

This made me laugh... Olivia's coloring on the left, and Reid's on the right.  Ha!!

My boys are obsessed with dogs.  I think we are close to getting one again.

 

 

 

 

I love my family so much.

My aunt was the best hostess and she and my uncle had so many activities set up for the boys... We pretty much never saw them the whole two days unless they needed food.  Lol!  They put up a tent in the backyard and just had a bunch of activities out there for the kids.  They just had the best time.  They played together like this in the sandbox for the longest time...

Homemade jetpacks...

 

Just to end on a cute note... This was Reid when I picked him up from church one morning... He's so funny.

October Ocala Trip

A new year... A new blog post.  I'm trying to decide if I want to keep this blog going or just switch over to using Instagram more.  It's just so hard to find time to sit on the computer and blog nowadays.  But I really want some way to record the things we do from week to week.  I think I'm going to first start with keeping the blog but maybe writing less and just posting pictures and see how that works.  

Annnyyyywayyyy...

In October we went down to Ocala again.  One of the main reasons we made the trip was to see this absolutely adorable munchkin.  Becky and Grace flew in for a long weekend while Ryan went to Indiana University's homecoming.  I told Becky this picture was almost enough to make me switch team allegiance.  Almost.  :)

Here's my sweet 95-year-old Mimi helping Davis get up on the swing and pushing him because everyone else was inside.  He loves her so much!

 Ohhhh how we all love baby Grace!!

That thumb kills me every time.  I mean... so cute.

Davis loves her, too, and surprisingly did not try to tackle her like he does to most other babies these days.

My sisters and I got to have a nice dinner out one evening and Leslie ordered a Manhattan to drink, which she did not know has about 17 different kinds of booze in it and is one of the strongest drinks ever.  Lol!!  Luckily the waiter took it back and brought her something different.

I talked Becky into doing the wine card machine with me.  I spent way too much on wine that night but figured it was okay since Phil was out of town and I had loaded up and driven everyone down there all by myself.  :)

 

Then Beck and I ran a short race that was a fundraiser for my nephew Cameron's school.  Beck hasn't been able to run too much since Grace was born and she wasn't sure she could run the whole thing but she did!!! We didn't stop once!  And we kept a pretty good pace!  Great job, Becky!!  PS She did not run with Grace in the front pack... just picked her up right after we finished.  Lol.

Hayride in Popeye's truck!  Look at Cam striking a pose!

 Box sledding at Aunt Leslie and Uncle Charles' house!

Sitting outside with Mom and Grace... Watching Grace doze off and dying at her cuteness.

And everyone got a chance to ride Gus bareback!

We were pooped after that weekend but in a good way!  Such a fun time!!