November 2020

We still have a while to go before we're caught up, so here's our last November!

Eden is so gangster.

Eden's facial expressions are the best!

We enrolled Joey in some swim lessons to prepare for baptism. He panics if his hair or face gets wet, so we hoped this would help. I guess we'll find out. What was cool about these swim lessons was that they were geared towards kids with disabilities and were taught by Occupational Therapists. Either way we had fun doing it.

Last post I mentioned our pumpkins won an award at the Trunk-or-Treat. Well, I found the picture:

The Ophthalmology program put together a half marathon for anyone to participate. Sam was the only one from our family (no surprise) that participated, but we were there when he got to the finish line. Poor Sam's knee was acting up so he took up the end. But boy did he persevere. 

Sam's parents came up for Thanksgiving and we had a blast. We started off going to Canyon Lake to stay in a "cottage" (really just a mobile home). We decided to have a night hike and found two creepy spiders. 

This one spun a web on the pier.

I found this one crawling on my shirt towards me.
Understandably I freaked out!

One of the big projects we wanted to do with our house was redoing our upstairs bathroom floors. They were cracking, outdated and ready to be replaced. Sam and his dad decided to get a head start while I stayed with his mom and had fun at Canyon Lake and at Buc-ee's. Buc-ee's has been on my Texas bucket list for a couple years so I couldn't pass it up when we were so close. It is like the Costco of gas stations. Just one of those places you have to experience to really understand.

Had to demo the old tile. Linoleum was underneath! 

Sam did some major demolition here!

Joey's toy he picked out at Target.

Eli chose Legos, no surprise there.

Grandma took the boys to the lake while Eden and I took naps.

The floors needed to be level to place the vinyl flooring we had.

The floors are in!

The kids loved the books Grandma brought and she read to them every night!

Celestine took me to Target (and other stores) to pick out the perfect decor for our bathrooms!

Our bathrooms look pretty amazing now, thanks to Sam's parents!

We celebrated Celestine's birthday while we were here.

Joey got into turkeys for Thanksgiving.

Notice Eli's Thanksgiving plate consists of only corn and a roll.
In fact I'm surprised even corn is on there!

Our pretty Eden.

More Grandma reading time!

I love that Eden is so friendly and loving to family she doesn't see that often.

Thanksgiving: steak, sweet potatoes, asparagus, corn, and some rolls.

Matching shirts!

Great Thanksgiving!

We finished it off with some yummy apple pie and pumpkin pie (not pictured).

Thanks to Sam's parents for their lovely visit, service, generosity, and love!!