All the Activities

 Kyle had all his activities on Tuesday. 

He had a dive meet during school where he placed 6th.

Then that evening he had a progress show with Willie.

We knew things weren't going well when Reed got a text from someone on the newspaper staff saying that Kyle's pig was running around the barn.  Apparently Willie just doesn't have the showmanship skills Elvis had.

So here's a video of Willie looking cute eating 

(because Kyle certainly didn't think he was cute on Tuesday). 

Jason's Birthday

 Jason had a day to rest between Thanksgiving and his birthday this year.

We went out to dinner with some friends, and pretty much had everything there is to eat. 

Happy Birthday Jason!

Thanksgiving

 I didn't take any pictures Thanksgiving week, except Thanksgiving morning at the turkey trot.

It rained on us last year, and it rained on us again this year so we've come to expect that. 

Reed lined up with 389 other people.

Since this race is a 5K up and back, Jason and I just stood in the same spot and didn't move for 18 minutes.

We kept up with Reed's progress on Life 360

So we were ready for him at the finish.  

Enjoy our commentary. 

It was a good race for him.

And then we went home to eat, where I took no pictures, except of my turkey!

Big Sunday

 It was a big day on Sunday. 

We went to see the Texans who are finally able to win a game after years of not.

And then we picked up this one from the airport. Someone was extra excited to see him!

No School Again

 Kyle was in Corpus Christi this weekend for a meet.  

(He hasn't gone to school on a Friday this whole month)

He placed 4th, got to see Buc-ee,

And did his 2 1/2

More Tree Pictures

 Reed got inducted into a business society at his school the other night and since he had to dress in "business formal" we decided to use it as an opportunity to take pictures in front of the Christmas tree.

I so rarely wear flat shoes, but yes, this is how "tall" I am in the wild. 

1 Tree and Some Crafts

 I just talked to my mom, and she said she had 4 Christmas trees up.  I told her that was 3 too many, because I did 1 tree again this year.  I didn't get started on it until I got back from Oxford, so I was late this year.  

Yes, one section of lights is out, but oh well.

Chloe's new stocking I made her blends in perfectly with ours.

Speaking of things I made.  I also made JR and Jason new ornaments since I made Kyle and Reed new ones.   I made ornaments from their favorite movies.

JR's is, of course, Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey) from Dazed and Confused. 

And Jason's is Will Ferrell from his favorite dart in the neck scene from Old School. 

I can also show these off as all of JR's friendgirls have already gotten them.

I'm still not sure who this is (besides being a singer) but I feel like I made Jesus with a dog.  

Reed was unimpressed with my lack of ability to make the dog to scale. 

And one of his friends wanted one of herself. 

And some didn't get ornaments, I made them stockings. 

I still have sequins stung all over the office (Jason is so thrilled) so you never know what you might get. 

Last Game

 We didn't know we'd be going to Jimbo Fisher's last A&M game, but we were there.

And we had really, really good seats.

We were right next to the cannon, so I was definitely covering my ears when they shot that off 

We were definitely close to the action

But the only action I really cared about was how close I was to Reville.

She was right by us the whole night. 

Friday Dives

 Kyle had a dive meet on Friday where he dove both 1 and 3 meter (which I can't even remember the last time I saw him dive 3 meter).

He got 4th place in 3 meter, and 3rd place in 1 meter where he's added some new twister dives.

Kyle and Willie

I didn't even know Kyle and Willie were going to be in our local magazine until someone texted me the picture. 

 

Oxford

 I left the day after Halloween to go spend a few extra days with JR since I hadn't seen him since August. 

Never fear, he still looks the same.

While I was there I toured multiple sorority houses

Watched JR "work" at his job as a houseboy.

And I got to visit with lots of the girls

The rest of the family arrived on Friday 

And we did the grove on Saturday.  The kids went to the game, we stayed in the grove.

After the game we toured the fraternity house

And some signed JR's door. (I tried to block out the bad words, sorry if I missed some)

My favorite is that Reed signed it "start studying" (it's at the top)

But even Granny Sherry signed it!

Halloween Night

 Well, I was pretty much right about everything that went down Halloween night.

Kyle had a diving meet- he placed 3rd.  I stayed home to pass out Halloween candy, so I'm assuming there are no pictures.

Reed studied and did homework.

And we had a million trick or treaters.  We ran out of candy (we had 1,000 pieces) and I started bagging up cookies, giving out single serving cartoons of peanut butter, and even Nutella dips.  But after I had cleaned out the pantry of every snack we own, we had to shut it down.

Jason snapped this picture to show what it looks like at our front door.  (This is why we usually sit in the driveway, but it was too cold this year!)