SANTA

I think I like SANTA?!

He seems to be the most popular decorative item in the house.

Slumber Party

We were super excited that while we were in Bryan,

 Uncle Chad, Aunt Kayce, and cousin Amy were also going to be there!

We all stayed at Mimi's house.

It was alot of fun.

Even though I was sick the whole time and didn't get to visit with Mimi.

Amy is our only niece, so it was great to see her and Carli be attached at the hip!

It would be awesome if we lived closer.

But, since we don't and we were together this weekend, we had us a slumber party!

Chad made the girls smores (and us too)!

 

Did I mention the smores were being eaten at 11:45pm?!

and bedtime was 2AM?! They were the last ones up! NO JOKE!

and were the first ones awake...eating marshmallows, kettle corn, and powder donuts!

Don't judge!

There were meltdowns around lunch time and soon after was sleep!

But hey, you're only four and six once.

And who better to have a slumber party with than your girly girl cousin,

 who has the same middle name as you!

We had a blast! Lots of laughter!

Special time!

 

Stud man

This past weekend, we went back to B/CS and while we were there,

Tyler went to his good friend's quinceanera.

He was pretty excited to see his ol' crew!

I ran in with him so I could take a few pictures.

I'm bummed I didn't get a picture of the birthday girl!

She was in the middle of a sweet father/daughter dance.

She was so beautiful!

I only got these pictures, I didn't want to cramp the stud man's style...

I love this lil' dude! Still can not believe he's a freshman in high school!

SPECIAL DELIVERY!

We have had the best time with this momma duck!

We've really enjoyed the experience of watching her lay eggs and then see the babies hatch!

I feel like I know everything there is to know about ducks now. I was googling all of the time!

Thursday afternoon (November 29th), the babies started hatching!!!

There was so much excitement! Especially Carli and I!

I wanted to call everyone I knew so they could come see,

but it happened so fast!

And once they were born, she got really protective over them!

She was quite snappy at us and she use to not be.

So for our safety and theirs, we didn't want to show anyone.

We couldn't believe we were watching them being born.

They came out wet and brown and within minutes, fluffed out to these little balls of feathers!

She laid ten eggs, or atleast that's what I was able to count before she covered them up.

I was wrong!

Well, around midnight, I could hear them chirping, so I went out there.

Momma duck was actually off of her nest at that moment.

I counted 14 babies!

I also counted 4 that were not hatched

and have sinced figured out that they're not going to hatch.

We knew that 24 hours after they hatched,

 she would lead them away from their nest and over to the pond.

But man were we sad.

But we know we can visit them!

 

 

 

We're so proud of our momma duck and those precious babies!

Thanksgiving

Thankful and Blessed!!!!!

Computer time

So while I'm blogging, checking emails, and ordering Scentsy,

this is what my puppy love Charlie does.

He always has to be in someone's lap!

Teeth

Finally that snaggle tooth came out!

FIVE TEETH LOST!

I just noticed that she has a boogie in her nose, haha!!



Austin

Just cause he's a cutie! 

My knee

An update on my knee.

Really, my right knee is on it's way to being just like the left knee,

 but for now, we work on the left one.

 I've started my old people vitamins...kidding on the "old people" part!

The vitamins are to repair cartilage, joints, and tendons. And lubricate them as well.

HOPEFULLY!

 I take FOUR a day.

 and would ya look at the easy open cap on the bottle?! Ha!

I go to physical therapy twice a week.

I have a love/hate relationship with therapy.

I DO however love when I leave with this great tape on my knee!

I get such relief with it.

It lifts my crooked knee cap and moves it just a hair over away from the underside so that there is no bone on bone rubbing (Since there is not much cartilage there to cushion it).

I also like that at the end of each session, I get to use the compression ice machine on my whole leg!

It definitely helps with the pain and swelling.

Powder Puff Football

Tyler's choir had a powder puff football game this past weekend.

It was the upper class men girls against the under class men girls.

The boys were the cheerleaders.

The upper class men always win...

not this year!

Tyler cheered his girls on to V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!

Look at my lil' cheerleader!

 

 I have to say I was surprised at how good the girls were!

Not so much of the "puff", there were some tackles out there!

Nathan and Tyler 

 Half time performance!
Tiny pic, but can you spot Tyler?!

ALL of the guys did a great job!
They had us rolling with laughter!
I have an awesome video of them doing this dance, but it's not loading on here.
 I will for sure keep working on it, cause you've got to see it!

 Austin and Carli thought it was funny to watch too!

I even caught Carli doing some cheering of her own!

What a FUN time!



Thanksgiving School Lunch

Today was Carli's Thanksgiving lunch at school.

It was really good!

I eat lunch with her every Friday,

but it was a little more special today being that it was for Thanksgiving.

There were paper leaves on the table that the the kids could write on what they were thankful for. They were so cute.

 She just loves this turkey clip and wears it every single year!

And look at that front tooth...it is SO loose, crooked and sticking out! ICK! It's gross!

She will not pull it! It's her sixth one she'll lose.

Veteran's Day Choir Concert

What a wonderful way to spend honoring our Veterans.

Tyler's high school choir did a concert honoring our service men and women.

It was, in one word, MOVING!

It was held at a church in a nearby town.

The church was packed.

It was only our high school choir.

 A professional orchestra accompanied them and they were awesome.

 At one point they performed the musical motto for each branch of service, in which they asked for veterans and current military persons to stand during their branch's song.

I think we were all taken back to see so many veterans stand up.

Even the students had tears in their eyes.

 Afterwards, there was a very nice reception.

 I think the kids enjoyed the veterans as much as the veterans enjoyed them.

They stood around all talking to each of other.

I was so proud of Tyler and the choir.

 

Click these links to go to their You Tube Channel to hear most of the songs from the conert!

National Anthem- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9FP3r_uWck&feature=plcp

Salute to the Armed Fores- http://www.youtube.com/watchv=zLtN3LyrcC8&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Battle Hym of the Republic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6tfTJfrh_E&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Awakening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZS_q0DiCw&feature=plcp

Literacy Night

The day of Carli's field trip, that night, her school held a Literacy Night.

They could wear their pj's.

They went to their own grade level to either have story time or something else.

Carli's was a writing workshop.

Helping them become more detailed writers.

Afterwards, they met in the cafeteria for milk and cookies and got a free Dr. Seuss book.

Carli also visited the book fair where she got to buy a new book.

It was a hard decision...Barbies The Princess and The Pop Star or Justin Beiber. She chose Barbie, only because her other friend

"picked Beiber and I can always switch with her!"

 I caught her dancing in our driveway!

Her story.