Thanksgiving!

Well, November shot by like a rocket. Whew! A lot has happened.

At the beginning of the month, my youngest daughter was in the Christmas parade. Of course, she wanted me to walk with her and it was windy and chilly. BRRRR!! The pictures did not turn out because my hubby was in a crowd and too cold and jostled to get a good angle.

Then my youngest daughter had a living history night at school. She drew a name from a hat and it was Laura Ingalls Wilder. She had to give her "speech" in first person...."Hi, I'm Laura Ingalls Wilder. As a young girl, I grew up in the prairie..." She did a great job. She was also to dress as her person. Do you know how hard it is to find a prairie girl costume? Thank the good Lord that our backyard neighbor, Amy, has a daughter who was a prairie girl for Halloween. She let us borrow the hat and skirt!

Once again, I had to smile at the sovereignty of God. Here is our little Michigander doing living history night. And who does God have her choose? A pioneer girl from South Dakota, which is where her Dad hails from and her Grandma and most of her cousins still live! Whether she likes it or not, God is making her learn more about the Dakota's than she probably ever wanted to know. :)

And my oldest wanted the Chex puppy chow/muddy buddy mix for Thanksgiving. There are pics of her licking the bowl. No big secret....she just loves chocolate!

Then Thanksgiving. Driving to family in Illinois with the dog! Quite a road trip!!! But we had fun. Like making gingerbread houses with Aunt Kathy and her grandkids. Our oldest made her house for Grandma and left it with her, but our youngest brought hers home. She wants to eat it so badly, but we're trying to hold off for a little while longer. I'm pretty sure it won't make it past the 8th (which is A. Kathy's & Karen's birthday...and our now late but wonderful Grandpa Leroy). Maybe we can dig into it then to celebrate their lives!

AUTUMN!

WOW! Time flies! I've been meaning to update this site for a month, but didn't get it done.

The end of September was Coco's birthday! He now officially a dog and not a puppy. He acts like an out of control teenager too. We celebrated his birthday by buying him a cupcake (white cake and frosting). He didn't think too much of it. In fact, he wanted the brownies I had made for everyone else. So he ended up with a few crumbs of brownie and lots of ball play time. :)

Then October was just crazy with activities, ending with Halloween. One girl was a cat, the other was Nancy Drew. Coco was barking at everybody, so he was left in the house while we sat outside on a beautiful evening (60 degrees and cloudless) and offered treats to the kids.

Coco spent the next morning digging under our white pine tree for a rabbit. We know it lives there because he chases it out every so often. Still hasn't caught it though. BUT he came in with pine sap in various places all over his fur, which I had to clip out because you can't comb it out. He ended up getting a real clipping this week and now he looks like a different dog. :)

But Thanksgiving is coming and he will be traveling with us again! Hopefully the hair will grow in a bit more and he won't be so "bald". I'll also try to update this real soon as there are several activities coming up that I will have pictures to share.

And doesn't it make you feel good to think you're reaching your children...after election day, my youngest went to school and they were finishing up a puzzle of the USA. When they were done, my daughter said, "This is what Obama's going to do to America." and then destroyed the puzzle. Her class (except for 3 kids), laughed, clapped and said, "Yeah!" Kudos to my child!