Catching Up on November

Yes, I am behind again......so here is a recap of our November. My parents rented a cabin in Heber Springs (about 30 minutes from Searcy) for 10 days in November. We were able to spend several nights up there with them and Jim and I stayed up there one night w/o the kids. The cabin was perfect because everyone was able to have their own room. It had a huge deck overlooking the beautiful Little Red River and the leaves were gorgeous. There was even a little loft room (like Laura and Mary's bedroom in Little House) that Laura slept in each night.

One day we drove up to Mountain View and went to a little old-fashioned soda shop.

We then headed to the Ozark Folk Center where they have a little school house and other shops. Laura went dressed as Laura Ingalls and played school! She was in Little House heaven!
One of the stops was a doll shop. Since it wasn't crowded, the sweet lady helped Laura make a corn husk doll. Very neat!
The cabin had a hot tub and the kids enjoyed many squeals and splashes.
This was Grant's first time to fish and he was much more interested in the fact that he had a "Cars" fishing pole than actually fishing.
We wrapped up November by spending Thanksgiving in Dallas with the Looney family. It was a fun time and this year we remembered to get a picture of the group!

Week in Review

We traveled to Houston for Thanksgiving to be with my parents. As usual, our trip went way too fast and it was packed with lots of fun activities. The kids traveled great on our 468 mile trek with 8 hours in the car.

We took family pictures at Portrait Innovations where everyone cooperated! Yay!! Taking pictures is so stressful and exhausting. I am so glad it went well. Here are a few pictures. I have tons more, but can't figure out how to rotate them.
We had our Thanksgiving meal with the "Looney" family and they are always a blast to be around. Laura was enamored with the 5 dogs at the house. I think getting a dog is in our very near future. I am very excited about this idea as I've missed not having a furry friend in our house.

Friday night we went to my favorite mexican restaurant Pappasito's and afterwards drove down to Discovery Green where Jim and Laura attempted to ice skate in 70 degree weather. It was a nice evening!

Laura, Meme and I went to the Nutcracker ballet on Saturday afternoon. The music and dancing were fantastic. This is our yearly tradition dated back to when I was a child. Let's just say that after the show Laura danced and twirled as we exited the theater to find our car. She loved it! We made our gingerbread house before the ballet and it was quite a production with LOTS of directions!


Now it is time to get ready for Christmas and to get geared up to make yet another 8 hour trip in 11 days to Knoxville to watch Jim make his doctoral graduate walk!