Thanksgiving Time: The Man's Holiday!

I'm experimenting with blogging away from home. We just enjoyed a great Thanksgiving with my family in Mt. Home. We will be spending some time with Tom's family before heading home. It has been a lot of fun getting to see everyone again. While we were at my parents' Tom enjoyed burning tumbleweeds and driving a road grader. Winston got to go swimming in a very cold swimming pool. Preston and Keaton disappeared into the abyss of video games, emerging long enough to find food. I got a nice visit in with some of my family members. We are having a great time and will update more when we get home. Happy Thanksgiving - a day late. Happy Black Friday to you crazy shoppers!

Our Latest Family Picture

We decided to get the painful task of family picture taking out of the way this last weekend. It took about 50 tries, and finally we got one or two pictures that we could stand to look at. Here's the one we're framing:

The Family Life for Us!

I'm trying to keep up with this blog about once a week - although not much happens on some weeks. This is one of those weeks. So I'll just re-cap what we've been up to. Keaton recently finished his Jr. High Football season. His team won every game, finishing the season with a 6-0 record. He got to sign the game ball along with the team and it now sits in the Jr. High trophy case. It's kind of cool getting to walk into the school and see his name in there. He also got to participate in the Mass Band Festival. That is where school bands from all over the state get together and learn from college and professional orchestra members and conductors. This year they did the "Halo" soundtrack. He had a lot of fun and enjoyed learning from the greats. The only mishap was that he dripped catchup on his white shirt during lunch - which was before the concert took place - so he had to wear a dirty shirt through the whole thing.

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Preston has been continuing with Driver's Ed. He gets to drive at least once, sometimes twice a week with his instructor. He even got some night driving in with his Dad. I think things are coming along with all that. We had to pay the Driver's Ed fee the other day - ouch! But at least it's done. He has another month-and-a-half of class and he'll be ready to take the State Driving test.

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Winston has had an off-week this week. I think it was because of the time change. He was just kind of hyper and very stressed at school. After a couple of days if it, I decided to make him go to bed an hour early and that seemed to be his reset button. The next two days went well for him. Especially since Tom and I went into school to observe his behavior during circle time. He was an angel then - of course! Lately his favorite thing to say is "I don't know". He says that to just about every question we ask. I think his mind has been too busy to formulate an answer, so it's easier for him to just say "I don't know."

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Tom and I have been fighting colds - 'tis the season. Now Preston has one. Besides that, Tom's been moved to a new shop at work - even though he still has the same job. He got a new desk and everything. He also got to do some 'up high' work at the Colliseum last week - which he is glad is over. I've been working hard at the preschool. Not too much longer then it's on to Mom & Dad's place for Thanksgiving. We'll also get a Moores visit down Boise way while were there, too.

****************Sorry this is so long - no pictures this week. It's our life as we know it!

Home-Made School Pictures

Every year we seem to have a hard time coordinating with school pictures. When we do get the kids pictures taken, there just doesn't seem to be the packages we are looking for at a price that we want to pay. So we've resorted to taking our own school pictures for the past few years. Fall is our favorite time to take them because there is so much color outdoors. Here are our latest:

Preston

Keaton

Winston