Sweater Weather

 It finally cooled off a bit here in Houston, enough so that Chloe had to break out her sweater and Megan had to break out her heat lamp. 

And while we're on the subject of all the animals...I came home the other night and Jason said to Chloe, "tell your mother what you did."  Chloe (Reed) then told me she'd killed a baby possum.  I was super upset by this news since 1. we don't kill possums; we love possums and 2. it was a baby. 

Apparently, Jason and Reed had heard Chloe doing her possum bark and by the time they got in the back yard she had already killed it.  Jason said its tongue was hanging out and he poked it with a stick and it didn't move.  I guess in the excitement of trying to get Chloe back in the house he left it and figured he'd go pick it up later.

After they told me the story, Jason went back outside to get the possum...and it was gone.  It had played possum!  It totally fooled Jason who thought it was really dead. 

Also, not possum related but animal related, the raccoons have gotten way too brave at the club and now come up on the deck at night with everyone sitting there! 

Here's a picture I took of one this past Saturday!

1 More Season Left

 We officially put cross country season to bed with the cross country banquet.  

Here are Reed and his teammates.  

And here's what his coach had to say about him. 

There are only 3 awards they give out, and 2 of those are for seniors, so Reed won the only award he could have, which was most improved.  It's not that he improved so much during the season, but more that he came back from the summer so much faster than the year before.

The Colors Match My Christmas Tree

If anybody is reaping the rewards of Kyle's floral design class, it's me.

Just look what he brought home last week. 

Burgers. Literally.

 So one of Reed's cross country buddies invited him (and 2 other friends) to the Texans/Colts game.  But even better, they got to do the Whataburger hamburger race.  (They knew they were going to get to do it before the game.  They weren't chosen randomly at the game.) 

When Reed told me I knew exactly what he was talking about as they do it at every game.  Jason and I decided to go to the game so we could see him.  And it was so funny, especially since we know all the kids.   

All 4 of these guys are cross country guys, so I imagine it was one of the fastest races they've had. Reed said the best part was getting to stand on the field level during the game waiting to do the race.

Reed is on the left side and is the bun. 

Catch Up

 So way back a few weekends ago in October we were pretty busy.

I went to our school auction

Reed toured Rice. 

We went to my cousin's wedding in College Station

Where I saw a bunch of my family

Woohoo!

 

I haven't blogged because I haven't even been able to think with the election looming.  I was so nervous last night I could hardly stand it.  It's a great day today, and I will be catching up on all the things we've been doing now that I can breathe easy! 

We Survived Halloween

 We Survived Halloween. 

 I wanted it to rain, so of course it didn't.  Here's what our neighborhood looked like.

JR was Trump Wednesday night, and then Lyle Mendez last night.

Kyle was the penguin from Surf's Up, which I still don't get. 

Reed was someone studying for the SAT.

Jason was a fisherman in Matagorda.

And I'm about to go put on my costume and celebrate a night late as someone going to have dinner with her girlfriends.