Happy Thanksgiving!

Very thankful today for all of my family and friends! Have a great day of Thanks Giving!

Thankful

For siblings and a NEICE!Thank you God!

Thanksgiving Decor

You've seen my fall decorations here.
Now lets' throw in the Thanksgiving decor! My all time favorite decorations for the seasons are the things my kids make!This is Carli's monthly Bible verse from school.Her Indian headband and Pilgrim finger puppets.
Austin, from the 1st grade!Tyler, from Kindergarten.Carli, from last year and this year.A dish towel.Turkey, from Rose last year.Pumpkins from my secret prayer pal last year.

Preschool Thanksgiving

We are off from school this whole week for Thanksgiving! A nice, much needed break for my kids and I! Last week, Anthony was off.
Friday was a big day at preschool. Thanksgiving Feasts! Carli helped make these mini apple pies to take to her teachers.Her class feast consisted of pizza...her absolute fave! Not sure why so serious? Much better! This was the sweet smile I got as I was leaving her class to go back to my feast.

Flashback Friday

Last night, Anthony was doing some organizing and found this cd with tons of pictures on it from...7 YEARS AGO!
It was from Deyanira's camera. Back in 2002, Anthony was living in Houston, getting ready to open the new bank. Our house wasn't finished being built. The boys and I were in Bryan, staying at Mimi's house, since our house sold in ONE DAY!
This particular day, Deyanira and her kiddos and me and my boys loaded up and drove to Houston to surprise Anthony! We stopped by our new house to check on the progress. Then went to the little neighborhood park.Look at these babies! OOOHHH my heart melts! Austin and Sam were 8. Tyler and Christian were 4. Baby girl Emily was 3. Look at my boys' little Hulk shirts. Again, time flying by...not liking it! After that, we headed over to the bank to check out the progress of that too.And the last stop, the ever important Chuck E. Cheese!The day was great! The drive home...not so much! I'll just say it took forever to get home! Maybe because of a wrong turn, maybe because someone (*cough, cough* Deyanira!) said she "knew the loop"! Yah, we laugh now, but....AHHH, the memories!Glad to share it all with the Ely's!

Thankful

For my mom, my mother in law, my Mimi, and Grandparents in law!Thank you God!

Waz up!

Yesterday, Anthony, Carli, and I went to Tyler's Thanksgiving lunch at school. This is his last year in middle school. The time is really flying by! It's still strange to me to look across the cafeteria and maybe see one or two of his ol' buds from elementary school. The next group of kids coming in for lunch, we did see a few boys and girls we knew. My how they're growing! They're just all starting to go their own ways, all of them separated into other classes in other hallways, never seeing each other.
Tyler actually wanted his parents and little sister to come to school and he was even excited for us to meet his new friends in his class. They seemed like a good bunch. Now, just because he "let" us come to school, does not mean that we could talk to anyone in his class. Well, Mr. Tyler, if you're not going to talk to us though while we're there, then we'll just talk to some of your classmates. ONE of them might just be a certain girl that a certain Tyler likes....OH THE EMBARRASSMENT!!!! So he was none to happy with us when he got home. I happen to mention to him that I did have my camera in my purse and I could've taken pictures.
These are pictures of Tyler when he came in last night from playing. I say night, but it was really 5:30 pm, but it was dark. I feel like he should've said "Waz up", cause he was looking a little hip hop to me. So then of course he had to pose like it. Never a dull moment with my Tyler. So funny!