Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at Karen's house.  The food was delicious and plentiful!

Karen makes delicious dressing!

I took very few pictures, just a couple of our family.

The weather was beautiful!

Emma Taylor and I made a pumpkin pie on Wednesday before Thanksgiving to take to dinner.  I mostly just supervised.

It was delicious!

I spent much of the weekend putting up Christmas decorations.  We're getting our Christmas on over here!

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's been a slow picture week but that doesn't mean it hasn't been busy!  The kids have been out of school all week so I've been busy with them.  There's always activity around the house!

In the midst of all of our troubles, we have SO very much to be thankful for!  God continues to bless us even though it's so undeserved.  I'm so glad we serve a god who blesses us in spite of our shortcomings! 

We will be with my sister Karen and her family tomorrow in Red Bay.  We always look forward to our annual Thanksgiving with them, though we will miss the rest of our family who cannot be there. 

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Wax museum and birthday celebration

It's a rainy day today.  The tornado sirens woke me up about 2:00 this morning...Doug slept through them.  Fortunately it was a false alarm. 

Harrison's wax museum yesterday was cool.  He was the guy who invented Legos.  He did the research and gave a good speech (with a little help from note cards!).  He hates doing things like that.

Emma Taylor delayed going to school so she could go with us.  Heather was teaching so she didn't get to be there but I made a video for her.

He looks less than thrilled!

We had pizza and ice cream cake last night to celebrate Ben's 39th birthday. 

This kid loves his daddy!

Another year older...the years are flying by!

Happy birthday to Ben!

I almost forgot to wish Ben a happy birthday!  His last year in his 30s!

This was taken last year.

We are getting together for pizza and ice cream cake this evening to celebrate!

I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that my "baby" is 39!

ET school picture

Here's Emma Taylor's 7th grade school picture.

She's such a young lady!

Harrison has a wax museum program this morning that we will be attending.  He's not crazy about having to do things like this but I'm anxious to see him give his little speech!

Otherwise we are still recuperating from helping Heather move!  We were back again yesterday helping get things in order and Doug, bless his heart, has worked himself to death hanging pictures, blinds and shelving in the closets.  We are ready for a break today!

Moving is hard work!

We have moved Heather and the kids for the last three days.  We're making a final sweep of the old house today, then we should be totally finished! 

Heather had to work on Friday but this is what we did while she was working.  We loaded hundreds of boxes!

And drove them to the new house to be unloaded.

She had her work cut out for her when she came home on Friday! 

Saturday morning we took a break to go to Cameron's football game...more on that...then back to work.

We hired Two Men and a Truck and they did a great job getting everything moved. 

By the time we left yesterday, the new house was looking good and like home.  Doug hung several things on the walls and that makes all the difference.  I think they are all ready to be settled again!

The Mighty Mights won their division championship and played their Super Bowl Saturday morning.  It was a heartbreaking loss for them but they had a great season.  Cameron is #3 in the center.

So proud of those boys!

Moving on!

We are starting to move Heather into her new house this weekend.

We don't officially close until December 18th but will be renting it until closing.  The house is just perfect for Heather and the kids.  I think they'll be very happy in their new cozy home!