We love Fall...ours just comes in December!

 We are finally experiencing some Fall weather, leaves are a falling and we've had to get out our heavy coats...aka as sweatshirt jackets!  We are taking full advantage of Jason's camera, love these pics of the kids:

We had a very busy week, with Rick and Sue visiting for a few days and both Gwyn and Annie had their  Thanksgiving programs...Gwyn was an Indian:

I was sitting on the opposite side of the room, so my video didn't come out that great:


 Sweet girl!

 I LOVED her artwork:

 This turkey was at her desk, I love how it has fancy big eyelashes since it is a girl turkey:

 Annie had Grandparents day, book fair, and her program.  I love her hand turkey:

Sue is taking full advantage of retirement:

Thanks to Jason, we got some 3rd row seats to the Rockets vs Celtics this week.  I took Jacob for a Mom/Son night, it was fun and he was pumped!

 Harden and Lin:

 Love hanging out with my sweet boy!

 No jumbotron this time, but her did get to help out the mascot "Clutch" silly string the guy sitting right next to me with an entire box of silly string cans...I had the absolute worst seat in the house!


Yesterday was the big Baylor vs OSU game, which we have been anticipating for a long time.  One of our best set of family friends both graduated from Baylor, so they stole our OSU flag and put their Baylor flag up in the yard...followed up by a picture of our flag hanging in their house as hostage:

 Our counterstrike was to put our license plate cover around their car and then didn't tell them about it for a few days...so much fun...especially since we won!

We all wore our orange and went to Jason's to watch the game on the theater screen...Jacob was pumped!

This one barely made it to halftime:

Soccer season is over for both Gwyn and Jacob, hooray, ha!  She had a great year and loved it!

 When the cat is away, the mice will play in all their stuff...what do you get when you cross James Harden with a girl scout?

 Annie the little stinker put an entire box of kleenex in my washing machine.  I didn't notice it was in there until I was pulling clothes out of the washer and it looked like something exploded.  I put the clothes in the dryer thinking that I'd just clean the lint out and it would get everything clean.  We almost burned the dryer up, it was just caked inside the hose.  Thankfully to Rick and Brian and a shop vac that pulled it all out, we having an operational laundry room again!

 I took Gwyn to a sweet little Nutcraker performance with her Girl Scout troop, she looked beautiful!

Christmas has hit our house!  Yes, we are the crazies (much to Brian's disappointment) that decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving!

 We listened to Christmas and drank some hot chocolate, we've discovered Annie LOVES hot cocoa!

 This one has discovered those little specs of green and red in the queso at Taco Cabana are peppers, which he claims counts as vegetable.  He thinks he's good on vegetables for three weeks since he ate three cups of queso worth of vegetables!

 I love Gwyn's words, she has fee, fi, fo, fum under her F column...love it!

Funny things the kids said this week:
Me to Gwyn:  Are you excited about Thanksgiving?
Gwyn:  Yes, we get to do lots of fun things like hug a lot of people.
Jacob when I took the kids out to eat without Brian:  I'm the man of the table.
Annie:  Eyeball, cheese eyeball, pepperoni eyeball (her word of the last couple of weeks)
Jacob yelling to Gwyn:  Report for duty!
Me to Gwyn since she is standing by me ignoring him:  What is Jacob wanting?
Gwyn:  Me to put away his laundry, but I don't want to today.
Jacob to Annie after a ball rolled down the stairs during a ball fight with Brian:  Annie, go get the ball for me.
Me to Jacob:  Don't make her go downstairs and do that, you just go.
Jacob:  She's my butler.

Daddy/Daughter Date Night, Strep, Book Character Parade

This sweet girl got to go on a date with her Daddy.  He took her to Flemings, she got spaghetti and meatballs, fruit, dessert and the biggest hit of the night...Dr Pepper to drink!  Jacob was seriously jealous.  Seriously.  That is Gwyn's word.  Awkward is Annie's word.  Dude is Jacob's word.  Please help me, I hear those words so much I'm trying to figure out where I went wrong!  We have officially survived strep throat, thank goodness we are done with it.  Jacob caught it from me, poor thing fell asleep on me in the doctors office:

Home from two days of school enabled Jacob to perfect a talent of his:

Gwyn was the second one down after Jacob:

 ipads and itouches make long office visits much more bearable!

Both Annie and Brian did escape from getting strep, but poor Annie had an eyelash in her eye.  1.5 hour eyelash drama was a very traumatic experience for both me and her:

She fells asleep for an hour after the eyelash miraculously disappeared...it is hard work to cry for that long!

School pictures came back for Jacob and Gwyn...can't believe how fast they are growing up!  And seriously (okay, I know where Gwyn got that!), how cute are they??

Annie got to go to Chuck E Cheese for a birthday party.  There used to be one by our house and it moved, and I have successfully avoided the new one for over 2 years.  Bad news is that Annie had the time of her life!  I don't know if it was because she got to go by herself without Jacob or Gwyn or that she just hadn't done a place like that in awhile...she is the third child, gets all hand me down clothes and shoes, and doing something by herself and new makes her go crazy!

 Gwyn had a book character parade at school.  The parents lined up as the kids paraded around the courtyard holding their books.

 I had Annie with me, so I didn't get the best video:

A very sad day at our house, when Brian and Jacob had to pay up on their bet with some neighbors who are from Boston about the World Series outcome.  Having to hang a Red Sox flag at our house ranks right up there with getting a root canal for Brian:(  After I took the picture Jacob asked Brian what kind of a face he made, he said, "I don't have to make a face, my normal face while touching that flag says enough."

We went to a BBQ cookoff this weekend where we learned that Jacob loves him some ribs.  He ate 9, cleaned them to the bone!

The new way to shop with your mom, Annie knows how to do it right!

Brian found his compass and a few other stencils from Architecture school and Gwyn and Annie have been using them daily.  I told Gwyn this was about the most perfect snowman I've ever seen!  She was proud of it as well!