scenes from thanksgiving

we spent another year at rosemary beach for thanksgiving.  we had perfect weather, along with plenty of bike riding, beach time, pool time, puzzle time, play time, foot golf, a beaver moon, and good food!!  top it off with a bulldog AND cowboy victories, and it was pretty much perfect!! (the pictures uploaded all out of order, and i'm leaving them that way!  enjoy!)

flu shot

back in october, we got our annual flu shots.  it was a big day!  we finally got through it without any tears or having to chase a certain little person down a hall.  or....having to forcefully hold down said little person.  not everybody LIKED it, but we were all smiles this year!!  progress!

special

we must be special.  i know not everybody has their own personal entertainment to ride around in the backseat with them!  william has picked up the guitar lately, and now it goes everywhere with us!  maybe wes and reed should learn the harmonica, and we could have a band on wheels!

msu football

we finished up the msu football season, and thankfully we made it through the entire year with great weather and only one game that was kind of chilly.  nobody at my house really cares about that except me, but it's important to me! ha!  i didn't take many pictures this year, but we had fun just the same.  and, minus the middle of the season, we had a great year!

now, if they can just get those metal detectors figured out before next season to speed up the entry to the stadium....

learning fair for reed

reed had his learning fair recently.  he worked really hard on his pizza box project and learned lots about ronald reagan.  and the cold war.  and the berlin wall.  he's such a history nerd!!  but, his favorite fact was that reagan's favorite food was jelly beans, and he always kept a jar of them on his desk in the oval office.  so, reed made sure to include that in his project as well!  along with a handmade lego version of the berlin wall.  and, mama is over here just happy that we've only got one more learning fair project to do this year!!

halloween

it was a last minute decision to make a loop around the neighborhood and grab some candy, so these three scrounged up some costumes and went out for a bit to fill their bags.  i think halloween may be on the way out in their minds.  i'm not sure if that makes me happy or sad, but i sure won't mind if somebody wants to stay home and hand out candy next year!

surgery

reed had surgery at the beginning of november.  he took an elbow to the lip, courtesy of his brother, back in august.  a cyst formed in that spot and had to be removed.  he was not the slightest bit nervous and did fantastic!

saying goodbye to this thing that he really grew to dislike!

all smiles in holding...

it took a while for anesthesia to wear off!

being a boy, he thought it would be a good idea to remove his stitches about 8 hours post-op...

which resulted in us going back to get him stitched up again (nothing can ever be easy around here)!

 the next day (mental deficiency kicked in again), he thought dodge ball would be a good idea.  that resulted in the inside stitches busting, but i just let that go since nobody could see that anyway.  and, then i told him that he had to sit completely still for a several days until all the stitches dissolved!!  thank goodness we are on the other side of it!  all is well now, but i do know that the next time he has stitches, i am going to tell them to cast both of his arms as well!!!