November in a nutshell

I guess I had "bloggers block" for the majority of this month! So, here it is the last day of the month (and it's late and I need to go to sleep), so I thought I'd post a quick summary of our month.
Stacey's Birthday on the 5th. Dinner and an interesting Target shopping trip with Julie, LeAnn, Lisa, Kim, Amy and Amy!
Brad's Birthday on the 12th. We celebrated with a yummy stawberry cake, BUT note to self: Brad would much rather have the homemade one next year! (I'm still baffled; I thought it was awesome!)
We celebrated Thanksgiving at the ranch with Brad's family. Here's a pic of the cousins. The cute one in the middle wasn't too excited about being outside in the cold wind...or maybe it was because she didn't get to hold her beloved "bear."
Brad got some QT hunting with the kiddos. We had a great week in Texas. It flew by! We were sad to leave, but I was so thankful to finally get home tonight. Our routine 6 hour drive turned into about 8 hours! Mother Nature made today's trip difficult! First of all, we battled a 30 mph wind coming out of the northeast, which is obviously a challenge when you're driving from Texas to Arkansas. Then, it rained...along with the wind. Then, just as soon as we think we're on the homestretch, we pass through the tunnel and hit a parking lot on 540. When we got to the other side of the tunnel, it was snowing!...and traffic was at a standstill. We crept along for the remainder of the way home going about 10 mph. It was actually very sad and a bit scary for me. There was wreck after wreck after wreck. I hope and pray everyone is OK after all that, and I'm thankful for the protection God provided for us!We also had fun visiting Williams cousins during our Texas trip! Can't wait to be closer to you so we can play more often!

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Halloween

This day just started out strange!?!? This morning on the way to school it was raining with lightning and thunder just above us, the sun was shining as it rose to the east and there was a rainbow to the west! THEN, we get to Bryce's school and there's a hail storm for 10 minutes!!! The ground was completely covered with marble size hail. Just a strange start for Halloween day!

We had a fun night trick or treating and eating dinner with friends. Brooke had fun being Pinkalicious again (we went a little lighter with the pink makeup this time!), and Bryce was a football player for the 4th year in a row. He was Tony Romo (wrapped pinky and all).


Kinley.Spencer.Brooke.Bryce.Madeline.Stuart.Reagan.Bodie.Jami.Ryan.Addy

Bring on the tooth fairy

Our poor baby had to have 2 teeth pulled today b/c of severe crowding. He was VERY brave and did a great job for his first dental procedure. He was pretty pitiful for the first hour afterwards but is back to his normal active self now.

Pinkalicious!

Brooke got to dress up in her Halloween costume today for school. Pinkalicious is a children's book about a girl who eats too many pink cupcakes and turns pink; at the end of the book she has to eat green foods to turn back to normal! Brooke took pink cupcakes to share with her class today, and let's just hope it washes off because our picky eater will NOT eat green!!


Pinkalicious and JoJo (Jami Grace)

The rest of the story...and HSM3

OK, so here's the other half of the chicken truck explanation...the empty truck headed back out of town later in the afternoon. Once again, I was in the right place at the right time!
I am a huge fan of High School Musical and HSM3 is awesome! I loved it...even cried!?! Bryce and Brooke are a little more reserved in front of the camera than Lowery! She's ready to audition!

Amber, this is for you...

This is a chicken truck...To try and explain this to you rest of you, my friend Amber (from Texas) was telling me about a challenge she took last week to take pictures and document basically everything she did for a week. I told her that I would like to do something like that before we move back to Texas to document my life here in NWA...places I go, friends, and things that I would only see here in Arkansas...like chicken trucks! Her response was, "what exactly is a chicken truck?" For those of you here in NWA, chicken trucks are normal, a daily occurence, but in Texas, it's just not something you see...ever! And low and behold I was in the right place at the right time (and with camera handy)to capture this image for you Amber!