Time for Christmas!

With Thanksgiving over,it was time to get out the Christmas decorations.  We put up the stockings and the nativities, hung the countdown calendar, and got the tree and lights and garland all put up.  It's nice when Corey is home with time right after Thanksgiving to do it. 

 

Thanksgiving

We were very pleased that we got to spend Thanksgiving with our extended family here in Texas and that Grandpa and Grandma came from Arizona for the event, even with covid going on. Adam and Eve hosted at their new house. I baked pies and rolls and made yams and apples and we did a turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy. Adam and Eve also did a turkey. There was a lot of food and it was all very good. It was a nice day. I had made the pies and rolls (Travis did the rolls, actually) and pre-made the yams and apples on Wednesday. The kids helped with the pies--Jonah made the cherry pie; Annmarie made the blueberry pie and the apple pie and Eliza made the pumpkin pie. Her pumpkin pie got all eaten up, despite there being two other pumpkin pies there, which barely got touched. She was very pleased with herself for that (and so was I). I like good food.

 

In-N-Out Fall Festival

This summer the picnic got canceled due to covid. But we were glad when In-N-Out decided to host a Fall Festival at Six Flags. It was a lot of fun and we enjoyed it. Caleb's guest couldn't come, which was too bad, but that's okay. Westley brought along a friend from school.

Hardly any of the rides were open, though, but we enjoyed the food and the company.
 

Marching Band Competition, Climbing Wall, Cousins and Hand-bells

The older boys got to compete in the area marching band competition and they got a superior ranking and move on to regional.  I might have that backwards.  Anyway, they get to go to a band competition in a few weeks in Mesquite.  We are excited and crossing fingers that nobody has to quarantine.

I took Jonah to the library and we stopped in at the rec center and found that the climbing wall was open.  So I let him climb for a little bit.

Brock hurt his foot at our house while there for dinner, so Paige took him to Urgent Care and left Lacey and Autumn with us.  Lacey is getting used to us, I think.
 

We have been trying our hand at the hand-bells that Andy and Lori gave us last summer (2019). 

Final Football, Fall Leaves, Willy

Travis had only two more games, and these got played after the team took off two weeks for quarantine.  His team lost the game at Lovejoy but won their final game against Burnett.

The kids have been having fun raking the leaves into piles and climbing the tree.

Corey was home during the day, and we took Willy for a walk with Nora and Nathan.

We had our walk down the 50 yard line with Westley for Senior Night for football.  It was recorded to be played at Senior Night because somehow that makes people less likely to catch COVID, even though we were all in line on the field, just like we would be if we did it in person.
 

Fall Colors

The leaves on our trees out front were such pretty, bright colors this year that I had to get a picture before they all fell off.  Of course, my phone camera doesn't do the colors justice.  They were so many shades of yellow, orange and red.  It was really incredible.  Usually we don't get such a variety of colors here in Texas.

Fun and Football

This week in preschool, we learned about Texas.  We also talked about the letter B, so we made bluebonnet painting since bluebonnets are the state flower.

We finally had a varsity football game!  Yay!  They only have four on the schedule but I don't think they'll do makeup games for the ones that have been canceled due to covid.  We were very excited to go to a game and watch the band.  I hope next year we have a real season.