A 70 degree day in DECEMBER!!

YES, PLEASE!!!!  We will gladly accept!!  We didn't have much going on either until the evening, so we headed down to a trail by the Meremac River.  The kids rode scooters for a while and then threw rocks for a while too.  The dogs had just as much fun!  Gus did pull all the kids around on their scooters for a while too (he might be a fatty, but he enjoys a good work out and can hang for a pretty long time!)....he about threw Peyton to the ground.  It was pretty funny!  She made a good recovery.

 

Jack loves to cuddle

Jack still loves to cuddle his Mom (which I will take!!!), every night he asks if I'll come snuggle him. He also enjoys a good snuggle from a dog.  He's not picky which one, just whichever one will come sit quiet with him and snuggle with him.  This night, it was Gus!.....most of the time it's Gus!

Bathroom Remodel

So we started a total gut, master bath remodel on Halloween.  The contractors wife is at our house a lot talking with him, seeing the progress to order new stuff, etc.....she fell in love with our dogs!!!  She absolutely loves them and is sending me pictures to work all the time of them, if she was at our house.
The one day she sent me this one....she thought it was hilarious that they were both in our bed and Gus was on the boy side (Mike's) and Annie was on the girl side (mine).  They live a hard life!!!

A COLD walk through Tillis Park

We had tickets (through a local realtor, he rents the place out and has a big, nice hospitality tent set up), to walk through Tillis Park.....on the COLDEST night of December.  Mike worked late, so he didn't get to join us....smart man!!!  It was SOOOOO cold!  Even with the bitter temps, the kids wanted to go, they LOVE walking through.  In the past we have driven, done the carriage ride, and walked....and they all like walking it the best, and the tickets to walk through are extremely hard to come by.  You have to buy them months in advance and they sell out right after they go on sale.  This is because they only allow walk throughs a couple days of the season.

We got there, we hustled in, we hit the hospitality tent for hot chocolate, pretzels, and cookies and then started walking.  By half way through, our walk became a quick, brisk walk, as we were getting colder and colder.  Once we finished, the kids took one more spin through the treat tent and then we hit the road.  We were oh so happy to have a warm car with heat!

 

Thanksgiving is over....so.....

up with the Christmas decorations we go!!

Thanksgiving 2018

Mom and Jeanne both do Thanksgiving at the same time....NOON, so that kind of stinks that we always have to go somewhere late....but it is what it is.  We headed to the farm first and then hit Jeanne's on the way back.  Mom wanted to get pictures of everyone at the farm for one last Thanksgiving.  If all goes as planned, the farm will be sold in February, so this would be the last Thanksgiving there.
So outside we went, for PLENTY of photos.....

The turkey leg on Jack's place is as big as HIS leg!

There's that lovely pre-teen attitude shining through again....ha!

Quick trip to the zoo

Well, the day before Thanksgiving, the weather was mild, th kids were off school, and we didn't have much to do.  I told the kids that we should head to the zoo.  Peyton, in true "teenager fashion" decided that was NOT a good idea and sounded, 'SOOOOOO boring!'  I made her go anyway, and she pouted and huffed and puffed the entire way.
Once there, it was a great day!  The animals were active, wasn't crowded, didn't have to wait long for the train.....etc...it was good and it was fun......AND, that pre-teen girl with the attitude even admitted, that it was fun!  MOM FOR THE WIN!!!!