Thanksgiving 2016

John's parents came in town the week of Thanksgiving. They got in town the Saturday before to give them time to get settled before we left Monday for Williamsburg. Apparently we should've bought a pass because we went in October AND November;). My feet have been messed up since July (plantar fasciitis and a heel spur on my left foot) and I've been "babying" them with my workouts, but that Saturday, I ruptured my plantar on my left foot at my boxing class. The pain was quick, but I still shiver when I remember the way it sounded and felt. Ugh! I got around okay on Saturday, but by Sunday morning, I couldn't walk on it. I saw my orthopedist and they put me in a walking cast for two weeks. It was so awkward to walk on, but I could actually walk and it didn't hurt!

Williamsburg was short and sweet, but we had fun. The girls really love it up there! We shopped and walked around Monday night and then did Colonial Williamsburg on Tuesday. We were home by Tuesday night and getting ready for Thanksgiving by Wednesday morning:). It was so nice to have family here for a holiday and not have to travel on a holiday. They helped us get a few things done around here including decorating for Christmas!! Thankful for that!!

documenting my boot:)

we ate dinner at this fun restaurant that had a "pizza bar" for the kids to make their own pizza

This sweet girl remembered them from our October visit!

Gran bought them souvenirs.

just hanging out in George Washington's pew

We played mancala and shut the box with these ladies in one of the houses.

They were so sweet and patient.

our crew

It was already decorated for Christmas up there and SO pretty!

cuties

The girls said they would want to dress up as pilgrims so I threw these together that morning.  Yeah- they wore them for the picture and then they were done with them.

Thankful for these three right here!!

Halloween 2016

I dug deep for my old sewing skills and made Meyers's candy corn costume. I thought she looked so cute!!!

Emery never waivered from wanting to be Wonder Woman. I wanted to make her an m&m costume since Meyers was going to be her favorite candy. I felt bad not making her costume, too, but she still chose Wonder Woman. I attempted to make her pink boot covers, but that was a disaster.  I did make her arm bands and crown:)

Emery woke up with a stomach bug on Sunday morning and stayed home from school Monday. She felt fine other than the times she was getting sick. We nixed trick or treating with our neighbors and just went around with our family. Emery felt fine but wanted to go home and give out candy.

She loved telling everybody "Happy Halloween!" which sounded like "Happy Hannoween!" She speaks beyond clear but there's still a few things she says funny. I will be so sad when she says them correctly:)

Our school collects candy to send to troops overseas. We had very little candy leftover over but our neighbor did and gave it to us to send to school. If the girls' school collects 1,000 pounds, they get a movie and popcorn day. Hopefully our 7+ pounds helped that!

Lately......

Meyers went to a skating birthday party.

She needed some help but she did better than I thought.

Eating at Zinburger after church

Doing school work over track out:)

Decorating for halloween

Emery thought that decorating for Halloween meant that Halloween was that day:)

Making a stop at Barnes and Noble at the mall

Celebrating Riley's birthday

Meyers didn't want to drink her smoothie I made so I told her the alternative was eating  a bunch of spinach AND she took me up on it!!!!

Hurricane Matthew brought lots of flooding. We were just fine but this is the road outside our neighborhood as it started to flood and wash the road away.

This was the next day after the water subsided.

Crazy what nature can do! It's supposed to be fixed the end of November. Right now we have an extra detour.

John and I celebrated 14 years of marriage!!

We've changed just a little bit in 14 years;)

My mom came in town for her fall break so she was in town during our anniversary. Meyers had big plans with my mom to do something for us while we were gone:) They made this cake. Meyers was firm that there had to be a cake:)

They decorated and made us coupon books, too!

My mom made them veils and bouquets and they pretended to be  little brides and made us the sweetest video about how they want to be "just like mommy when they grow up and marry a man just like daddy". I screen shot the video - that's why Meyers looks a little funny.

Wear orange day for anti-bullying

Hanging with Sofia at Lily Rose's birthday party

With some of our favorite new friends, Grayson and Addie

We had family pictures made and I grabbed this sassy picture of the girls:). 

Addie came over and played while her mom went through all of our old baby clothes.

Farm day at school for the Mobile Dairy

Parent observation day at dance - they got to wear costumes since it was the week before dance.

Look at that stretch:)

Stretching for Meyers, too!

Getting that right split!

I just want to eat those little legs!!!

My mom still talks about me at dance one time when the dance teacher kept pushing me to stretch further and further. This made me think about that:)

This little monkey went with me to vote after school one day. We waited for 50 minutes and she was an angel. She did think we were going to a "boat" and that the line was for a ride, but she got over that and was super sweet. Ha!

John has a couple of reps in West Virginia. He has been telling me how pretty it is up there especially right now with the leaves, so we picked Meyers up from school and went up there. We ate at his favorite Italian restaurant Friday night. Saturday morning, we went to play mini golf on what looked like the side of a mountain! We were the only ones there and had a blast!

This place was this tiny little house from the street, but behind it in the woods was the cutest mini golf course. It was so pretty back there!

The New River Gorge Bridge is in Beckley, WV. It's no longer the longest arch bridge in the US, but it used to be and is still in like the top 3, I believe. It's also the 3rd highest bridge in the US. It was a little scary driving over it! We went to see it after mini golf.

You can't walk across the bridge except on one day a year -Bridge Day - but there is a lookout spot that you can go to and this is one of  the views from that.

Emery is pointing at the bridge.

at the lookout

After that we drove the scenic route and stopped at a state park. 

The views were stunning and made me wish I had my real camera and not just my phone!

my people:)

Our book club had our scarf exchange. Everyone couldn't make it, but it was still fun:)