Thanksgiving Break

For the first day (Wednesday) of the Turkey Break, we took our yearly pictures, caught Mockingjay at the newly remodeled theater, and did Black Friday shopping early!!  

Some of the shots we liked. 

 And the winner is:

Turkey dinner tomorrow at Mila's. 

Thanksgiving day!

I got all the out of state mailing packages wrapped and ready for the post office.

Made corn bread to take with olives, soda, and a pie to Mila's for dinner.

Black Friday

No shopping for us. We went to Planet Fitness to work off our turkey thighs. Came home to eat more, then dug out the Christmas. 

We were planing to go out and cut down a tree but Sahara got this pre-lit 3 footer at the after Christmas sales last year for $10 and we forgot we had it. So we put it up instead of her putting it in the bedroom she never uses. 

Yep it's tiny, but so is our space. 

And if some monster decides to chew up some lights and extension cords...Jamocha Jane...I hope it sparks her butt pretty good.

Small Business Saturday

Nope, didn't shop, put away Christmas tubs from decorating yesterday. Took 2 online tests and wrote my last essay for the semester. Went to the marina. It was beautiful in the 70's today!

Sunday

Found Jared in a Basic ceremony picture on Facebook. 

Did a work out at Planet Fitness

Plan B

On the way back from PF, we stopped by the woods and brought home this guy.

The other tree just looked like a decoration to me and not a Christmas tree.  This one is Charlie Brownish and we have no idea what kind it is.  Very stickerish for sure!  

 Here is a caparison in size from what we were using.  I like our new tree :)

The little one now is in Canyon's room since his little white tree broke in storage and he didn't have one this year.

Field Trippin'

How lucky!  He gets to go on another field trip.  That's like the 4th one this school year so far.  This time it was Mystic Caverns in Jasper, AR.  We have never been to this one before but from other pictures I saw, it is pretty big.

Luckily he was well enough to enjoy this one.  It took 15 days to recover from pneumonia. 

This is the only picture of him in the caverns that actually turned out.

What's next?  Who knows.  But I bet Mrs. VanEs has something awesome planned!!

Good Morning Snowfall

Wow!  We are lucky to see the white fluffy stuff only a couple times a year and usually in January and February.

It's not much and was gone by the end of the day.  It was soooo cold today.  Still and peaceful this morning, but the wind chill was crazy by the afternoon..

Sick Boy

And on the 10th day, he plays!

Still coughing really badly, but he is on 2 antibiotics (one day 6, one day 3).  Very weak and hardly will eat anything.  I hope he just gets to take it easy at school and makes it the whole day.  But today is the first day since Oct 30th that he has been off the couch for more than 30 minutes.  Apparently it was Scattered Pneumonia (thin layer of pneumonia covering all of lungs not very detectable with a stethoscope and hazy looking on x-rays).

So, this happened...

After 8 days of being stuck with sick boy, I got caught the crafty bug.  I have been wanting to try this for a year and finally decided, why not today.  It took a lot of trial and error and experimenting, but it came out ok I think.  I plan to paint the cabinets white and the walls white too.  Someday.  Not sure if this is even going to work either, may scrub right off with the first cleaning.

I used alcohol ink and clear spray sealer.  The first try was blue, purple, and green, but somehow they blended together to make red and mud.  So I cleaned it all off and tried again with just blue.

The counter top before was that old off white marble that had cigarette burn marks on the edges.  I HATED IT.

I hope this lasts a few years.  I will be careful not to scrub it.

Election Day

It's Election Day.  Thank goodness because we are so sick of the commercials!!  It's raining and cold and Canyon is sick, but we headed out to the Polls anyway.

This is Sahara's first time to vote.

And here is sick boy, day 5.  Going to the doctor at 3:45.

Dr update:

His lungs don't seem too bad but he is still running fever (for 5 days now), has no appetite, lethargic, and puked twice (mucus) at the doctor's office.  Was put on antibiotics and given a note to stay home 2 more days.  WOW!  He hasn't been this sick since he was in preschool :(

Trick or Treat Time

We got ready early this year.  Ready to head out the door at 5!  Too early, we had time to do some photos.

First the dogs.

Malaki was Bat Man.

Jamocha was Bat Girl.

Malaki went with us Trick or Treating and we had plans to take Jamocha.  Unfortunately she is just too wild.  It took 70 attempts to get 3 decent photos of her.  

Then we went outside for our pictures.

Canyon was an Army Man and Sahara and I were both Rosie the Riveter.

Canyon was sent home with a low fever today, took a 2 hour nap at the house, and with meds, we headed out anyway.

The Rosies.

Then just some goofing off photos of everyone.

We Trick or Treated just as the sun went down because we usually wait until dark and candy is already gone by then.  These are 2 houses on the same block that decorate nicely.

After 3 streets, we hit a fire station and a church that had a huge Trunk or Treat thing going on.  Plus they fed us dinner for free!

At home, we ate a few pieces each and went to bed early for a Friday.  Saturday morning we got up early and hit Walgreens for medicine for Canyon.  He was up coughing a lot last night.  Then to Special Olympic Bowling.  Canyon was not well.  He laid over in Sahara's lap and when it was his turn to bowl he did not want to get up.  

Then he had a coughing fit which caused him to throw up.  We didn't make it to the bathroom on time :(  So forget bowling, we headed home and he slept on the couch.  He LOVES to swing and is out doing that 90% of the time when he is home.  If he is laying on the couch with the TV not even on for hours, I know he is not feeling well.