Thanksgiving 2016

Okay I am trying something new for this post. My work phone has live photos which I tried to just piece together into a video with the highlights from our Thanksgiving trip to Ohio. I did not have pictures of significant events such as eating squirrels (yes this is serious), the Thanksgiving dinner, or visiting Santa Claus. Just use your imagination for those parts (you better be imagining a really awesome Thanksgiving dinner with world famous gravy).

P.S. The snow looked WAY cooler in person.

USMC Birthday and New Windows

We have been wanting to get new windows for a long time, since our house seemed to have the original windows from 1957. We finally did it with a local company that some friends had used. It is nice to finally have windows that you don't have to strain mightily to open. It is also nice to know our kids could actually open their bedrooms windows in case of an emergency.

 The before picture (I won't tell you who took a before picture of window replacement with a tree blocking one of the windows).

 The after picture. If you don't like them, keep it to yourself.

Yay I turned 241! Semper Fi!

A little person must have taken this picture -- you can see the ceiling behind us. We are tall, but not that tall.

Sabrina had the Turkey Trot at school which she always looks forward to. We didn't get any great action photos, but we wanted to include it anyway.

Late Harvest

We are still getting peppers and a few cherry tomatoes out of the garden. We get a late spring harvest then the plants estivate and then we get a smaller fall harvest. One of the bright spots is the watermelon plant. Sabrina's class sprouted watermelon seeds in May, and they got to take their sprouts home. So I planted the sprout in my garden where it was shaded so it could survive the summer. It produced three pretty good sized watermelons. One got eaten by critters and one split open after a big rain. The third one though we just harvested today. It is about 12 pounds and is a beauty. We will eat it tomorrow and give an update on how it turned out. I would have liked to wait a little longer to bring it in, but we are supposed to have a thunderstorm tonight and I didn't want to take a risk of it splitting.

5 Years Old!

Our little man turned 5 years old! He is about 46.5 inches tall, which is a little taller than Sabrina was when she turned 6. Still 10 months until he starts kindergarten too! He enjoyed all his gifts which included mathbox cars, transformers, magnetic building blocks, and a self inflating whoopee cushion. 

He asked for a lemon cake with blackberry frosting. I was a little sad when I saw the blackberry frosting was pink, but it was delicious. Poor Clark didn't finish all of his piece because he said his tummy hurt. He was excited to eat another piece for dessert the next night, though. 

Playing with his transformers and magnetic blocks. We had been planning on getting him a bike for his birthday, but we already bought one at a yard sale a couple months ago. He did get a brand new adult size helmet, so he can ride safely, though. He rides his bicycle sometimes, but he doesn't have a lot of patience for it yet.

We look forward to another wonderful year with our favorite little boy!