Thanksgiving 2016

November was a blur.  Every year with work I get busier and busier.  This year was just as crazy as ever and I worked a lot of long days.  The only thing I really remember is that we went to El Paso for Thanksgiving and to celebrate Mia's baptism.

I hate the drive to El Paso so much.  West Texas is boring- nothing but wind mills, oil derricks, run down oil towns, nasty gas stations, etc.  My poor attitude about it mostly just stems from the fact that it takes forever and I can't stand to be in the car for more than an hour.  We did really enjoy our time with family.  We had a great Thanksgiving meal, all of the cousins of course had a blast playing together, and Mia had a lovely baptism.

Halloween

Halloween ended up being fairly low key.  We had fun walking around with just our family and sticking to the streets close to our house.  I think the girls enjoyed coming home and passing out candy more than they did trick-or-treating this year.  The glitter from their costumes was EVERYWHERE.  I had to sweep, vacuum, and mop...all several times, and even that didn't get it all up.  The new rule is no more costumes with glitter! :)

Octoooooober - Pre-Halloween

Is it just me, or is October the longest month ever?  I guess it gets busier and busier every year as the girls get older and they have more activities.  Our month so far has been packed- there is rarely a day that we have been home- except for Sundays.  In the past month we have had cheer practice every Tuesday and Thursday night, had gymnastics every Wednesday, the girls performed in the Cabaret with the high school cheerleaders, spent countless hours painting and prepping for the homecoming float, rode in the homecoming parade, school pictures, cheered every Saturday at the Y (2 of the games I was the substitute coach), attended at least 2 birthday parties every Saturday, business trip to New Orleans, Red Ribbon week, painted pumpkins- 1 specifically for Joey's school storybook project, completed a diorama of the Alamo for Shelby's class project, visited with my grandparents visiting from CA (and also two of my sisters), cheer pictures, Fright Fest at Six Flags, pumpkin patch, trunk or treat, fun run for school fundraiser, Shelby got braces, weekly RS presidency meetings, working more than 40 hours each week, pumpkin carving, weenie roast, daddy/daughter camp out...I feel like there is more in there that I am forgetting, but I. Am. Pooped.  Anyway, I figured I might as well post pics of all of that now before tomorrow, since I am sure I will have lots of pictures from the HOA party and trick or treating.