Thanksgiving

This past Thanksgiving wasn't just "Thanksgiving"...it was November 28th, and that means that someone turned 40!

There was lots of good food, plenty of fun

...and then FOOTBALL!

Yep, I was the lone longhorn fan.  Despite the freezing weather, we had a great time

I snapped this pic of the beautiful sunset right before kickoff

Friday, we headed down to Hallettsville to go to the annual Courthous Lighting and parade,

where we had more fun, more food, and more family!

Lila was too cool to sit with us

This was a picture of Audrey's reaction right when they turned the lights on

 This was my favorite family entry in the kiddie division

and this group from West, TX was my favorite.  It wasn't a parade float, but they came a long way, and danced their way through the town square to Polka music, and the banner on the truck said "Czech your Stocking", which is too cute.

Fall Fun

Where did the time go????  We have been busy, busy, busy.  A lot has happened. Lila played Fall T-Ball with the Stars.  She had a blast, and was always second place when they would do the "hardest hit" contest, which I think is a great accomplishment when you are half the size of everyone on your team.

She is still loving school, and we love her school, too.  I was so nervous about her going to a big public school, but they are so family oriented there.  I cannot say enough good things about the teachers.  They are a "Leader in Me" school, and are teaching the kids "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", so Lila comes home saying things like, "Mom, you just need to be the water", and "we are sharpening the saw".   Her teacher Mrs. Spivey, takes a lot of pictures and shares them with the parents.  Her class is called Spivey's Superheroes, and Lila has gotten the Superhero award twice, which means she gets to bring a (stuffed animal) superhero home with her for the night.  Lila loves science class, and they have gotten to study snails and isopods.  Her school had a school wide Sock Hop to celebrate the 50th day of school, and they just had a week to celebrate kindness and solidarity and the whole school formed a peace sign, which Lila thought was really cool.

We managed to make it to a few UT football games...we always love seeing all my college friends during football season.  They have decided to build a medical school in our tailgate spot, so after 15 years, we had to say good-bye to our beloved, fully shaded tailgate spot.

Halloween was WILD, as always.  You may remember that I have mentioned that my neighborhood does Halloween BIG, and this year it got BIGGER.  Started off on the Tuesday before with a Zombie Run, which was a kids' 1 mile fun-run around the hood.  So cute.  Lila was really into costumes this year, and she was very particular about her mummy wrap.  

Lila decided that she wanted to be Batgirl, and she decided that Audrey would be a dog, and Landry would be a cow.

Audrey didn't really care that much about trick-or-treating (she is still really regimented about her bedtime), by Landry got stronger as the night went on.  Once again, a good time was had by all.