YaYa - The Fighter

I visited my aunt recently and she had an idea of what she wanted to give everyone for Christmas and asked me to assist.  When she was first diagnosed with cancer, my cousin Scott gave her Mike Tyson's autobiography and told her that she was a fighter.  Ever since, she has had his book sitting on top of her armoire next to the door to her bathroom.  It was the first thing that she would see every morning since last April.  It was a constant reminder to her that she was a fighter, and that she was going to fight this fight as hard as she could and she has done exactly that.  She is tougher than Mike Tyson and could probably teach him a lesson or two.  For Christmas, she wanted to give everyone a picture of her with his famous face tattoo so she enlisted me to draw it on her face and take pictures of her to give to everyone.  She looked great!

 

 

 

Scarf Party

For the last two years I have been lucky enough to attend a scarf exchange.  Last year, we gathered our group of friends at a Starbucks in San Antonio and did a "white elephant" style exchange with the scarves that we bought.  We were allowed to steal from another person once, and each scarf could be stolen a total of two times only.  It is a lot of fun so I was very excited when my friend, Cassie, decided to host one at her new house this year.  It was great getting to meet all of her friends and enjoy all of the yummy food that everyone brought.  

This year, I brought Tanner with me and she and Maddie exchanged scarves also. They were so funny!

They got a hold of my phone.....

 This is the group after we all had our new scarves.

November IPhone Dump

On this particular day it was just Colby and I at home and we sat on the couch for awhile.  He must have been really tired, because he fell asleep like this on my lap for about an hour, and then slept in his crib for another two hours when I moved him to his room. I was hoping and praying that he wasn't getting sick, and I was so glad that he didn't.

Just doing what he does...

Just doing what HE does.....

This was one of the first really cold days that we had so I put a hat on Colby and he thought he looked pretty good in it.  He giggled when I put it on and he kept touching it but didn't take it off.

A couple of selfies with my favorite girl =)

 

 

 Spiderman lifted his mask up just long enough to eat an apple.

Thanksgiving Day

This Thanksgiving was the first Thanksgiving where we stayed home and just had Thanksgiving dinner with our little family.  Clinton was on call this year so we couldn't travel, and both of our families had plans so nobody came our way.  It was really nice. We stayed in our PJs for a good portion of the morning while we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  I made a feast for dinner with all of the typical dishes. I will say, though, that I tried a bunch of new recipes from Pinterest this year and most of them were terrible!! We had no leftovers because none of us wanted to eat much of it a second time =).

I made these for breakfast.  They are turkeys, but it took the kids a minute to figure it out...

The Radio City Rockettes did a performance at the parade and our crew decided that we needed a McDougal version

Can you tell that this is the "stop taking pictures of me" face?

This is what they did for a lot of the time that I was cooking.

 

Since we had a full four days at home, we decided to do only underwear for Cameron and try to get potty training officially done.  We had no luck, though.  We put Thomas the Train underwear on him and told him that if he used the potty he could wear Spiderman underwear.  We hung them in the kitchen so that they would be visible. He wanted to wear them so bad, but he just couldn't remember to go to the bathroom.  He is doing much better now (it's a month later as I am writing this), and he gets to wear Spiderman underwear all of the time!

YaYa gave these to Tanner the last time we saw her and told her to decorate our Thanksgiving table with them.

Working on it =)

Cameron's Thanksgiving party

The week of Thanksgiving was crazy. Both kids had things going on at school, and it turned out that both of their Thanksgiving parties were at the exact same time so this was the first time that I had to choose which one that I would go to.  I ended up going to Cameron's, because it was his first one and I had been to Tanner's before.  He was so cute with all of his classmates.  They had the boys pull chairs out for the girls, and he looked like such a little gentleman.  So cute!!

I think Colby had as much fun as anyone at the party!

YaYa

Before we headed back to Pleasanton, we went to see this lady.  The day that we left for Concan, we learned that her breast cancer, which she had been diagnosed with back in March, had spread to her brain.  She has gone deaf, as a result, so we have to write down everything that we want to tell her when we see her. We are heartbroken.  We love her so much, and she enhances our lives more than we can explain.  We are praying all of our prayers for her right now.

 While we were there, she actually got up out of her chair and walked to the other room to get the kids a few stuffed animals.  She always goes above and beyond for them, and this day was no exception.

 Colby really liked "Cunkle" Scott!

Camping - Part 3

After we went to Lost Maples, we came back to the cabin and grilled burgers and roasted marshmallows.  The kids had so much fun.  Tanner liked melting the marshmallows off of the hangers and into the fire, and Cameron just liked eating the marshmallows without roasting them.

A couple of selfies

Dave got all of the hangers ready.

Colby wanted to do it himself.  It was a lot of fun trying to make sure that he didn't fall into the fire.......NOT =)

The next day, we walked down to the river behind our cabin.  We didn't realize the first day that the river access was so close to where we were.  It was a lot of fun to climb out onto the rocks on the water. 

After spending a little time behind our cabin at the river, we packed up all of our stuff and headed over to Garner State Park, which was about 8 miles from where we were staying.  The kids enjoyed skipping rocks and putting their feet into the water, even though it was pretty cold.