Thanksgiving 2013

This year we got our tree a few days before Thanksgiving.  Some of the kids went with Daddy to pick it out.  

We decorated it the same day.  

We had lots of Thanksgiving prep work to do. 

James and Andrew making pies.  

Every year we have a Thanksgiving Sequence tournament.  

This year it was down to Andrew and Daddy.  

It was a pretty serious game. 

Soon the board looked like this - Andrew was blue. 

He looks surprised. 

Daddy got his game face on . . .

And stopped Andrew in his tracks. 

Matthew was bored so he played with the extra pieces. 

Concentrating.

Andrew started to get a little goofy too. 

It was down to the wire . . .

And Daddy pulled off the victory.  

Even though my winning streak was over, 

I still celebrated with him :)

Alyssa made a custom certificate. 

And Andrew made one too!  

Happy Thanksgiving!!  

Friday Fun

I took some pictures of Peter at school a little while ago.  

He really likes his math homework!

The end of October is Satsuma season around here.  We have three trees in the backyard and they're fabulous!

The first bowl-full.

They're the perfect size, easy to peel (even Matthew can do it if you start it for him) and super juicy.  

Matthew likes to section his all out sometimes. 

Wish we had three more trees!  

The neighbor's cat, Kitty (that's what we call her anyway) likes to hang out in our yard trying to sneak into the house and generally begging for attention and petting.  

Hey Kitty, what's that you got there? 

A baby snake!!  Can you see it?

We're 24 weeks with the new baby - so just over half way.  16 more weeks to go.  Sounds like a lot and not very much all at the same time.  

The girls are taking an informal photography class with some of the kids in our home school group.  

It's been fun seeing the assignments that they have - and using their brothers as subjects. 

Look at these three characters.

Jon

Jumping! 

Andrew

And a couple of my favorite flower ones. 

Friday Fun

Just some random nonsense to entertain you!

Free smoothie samples at Target. 

Game Day in Baton Rouge. 

Again, at Target.  

A trip to Dunkin' with Daddy.

It's good!

Cleaned out some things from the attic and came across this jacket.

Go Bengals!  

The other day while waiting for James we visited Mike the Tiger on campus. 

Nice tiger!