He's Home

 The Golden Child has returned home for Thanksgiving break!

He announced his return as soon as the plane touched down.

And Chloe was all of us when she got to see him.

One guess what his first meal was...

Yep.

There's no Whataburger in Oxford. 

Side Eye Saturday

Chloe is not impressed. 

Elvis Update #3

 It's been a few weeks since I've done an Elvis update. 

 He is eating like a champ, and when I say a champ, I mean he's up to 85 pounds!

He's not the best-behaved pig in the bunch, as he loves to go push open gates and run to the sand pile to root around when he's supposed to be practicing walking with Kyle. 

But he's still the cutest! 

Kyle went in the pig barn to check on him last weekend around lunchtime after working the petting zoo.  All the pigs were napping under their heat lamps.  Kyle didn't wake them up, but got this cute picture.

Winning and Not Winning

 There was lots of winning and not winning going on this weekend.

Reed ran a 5:30 mile time trial and then ran 8 miles (7:25/mi) so I'd say that's some winning.

Kyle worked the FFA petting zoo for a school event, so that's always a winning situation for him.

I'm not really supposed to talk about the Golden Child, but even though Ole Miss didn't win, he got himself on national TV. Winning.

And Jason went hunting and fishing in Matagorda this weekend where he got a few ducks (winning) but let this fish get a way (not winning).

And Some More Winning

 Kyle had a dive meet on Friday, which means he got to miss school (his favorite thing) so you can imagine how excited he was with me when I made him go take his biology test (not a favorite thing), then picked him up from school and drove him to the meet myself.  

Here's one of his dives

And some pictures

And he got a 2nd place finish.

Winning Decor

 I'm a winner too.

You know how I love to toot my own horn, so get ready for some loud toots.  

I was able to get our 12-foot Christmas tree out of storage, drag it downstairs, and assemble it by myself! Winning! 

I know. I was super impressed with myself too.

I did have help in the decorating process.  I had both my monkeys climb up the outside of the stairs to hang the top ornaments. And I had the monkey, who also doubles as a circus performer, helping me with the 8-9-foot ornament placement range.

And here's the final product!

Winning Weekend 2

 And if you live here in Houston, then you know what the other big win was.  The Astros won the World Series and Jason and Reed were there to see it.

Here's Reed's video of the win.

I texted JR asking him if he was running up and down the streets of Oxford screaming like he did the last time the Astros won the World Series, but I think his celebrations were a bit more low key this time.