November 2009

In addition to good citizenship, you might also be interested in our November 2009! We had a great Thanksgiving holiday. We were blessed enough to have our very good friends Dan and Cortney Exby visit with their sweet baby, Owen. Could he be more precious???? We spent a lot of time playing "chooch", enjoying each other's company, cooking, and eating. We also spent some time shopping and site-seeing. Cortney was the best help ever with our delicious Thanksgiving meal. Dan did a mean job of football watching with John-the manliest manly men activity on this festive day of manly men activities. All were sad when the Exby's had to return to KC on Sunday morning. But life happens, ya know?

Last night for FHE, we drove over to the Gaylord Texan Hotel in Grapevine for the Ice show. Every year they have a wonderful display of ice sculptures depicting "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", in addition to a giant ice slide. OH, it's cold in there! 9 degrees to be specific. But upon entry, you are given Parkas to keep warm and we also came prepared with hats and gloves. The ice sculptures were beautiful and the slide was fun, but the experience was definitely over priced. Must be inflation. Darn money elves!

Aidyn earned his yellow and black belt this month in Jui-Jitsu and is very excited about that. Avery is currently soundly invested in the fabulousness that is Taylor Swift. Her mp3 player is never far away and if you want to here her sing "Pictures to Burn", "Love Story", or "You Belong With Me", give her a call. She asked me the other day if we could go to Taylor's house and meet her and I had to explain Hollywood Status to her on a 5 year-old level. So she asked me if we could call her intstead. My message was obviously not clear. All the kiddos are anxious for Christmas and hoping to be on Santa's Nice List. Avery got to meet Santa last night at the Gaylord and was just tickled by that experience. I will say their Santa is impressive! Real beard and everything! Hope all of you have a great holiday season! I don't know if I will be able to post before Christmas as this time of year is very busy for me but I will do my bestest!