Red sky at night...

There have been some glorious sunsets here lately. This one was particularly beautiful. It seemed that the whole sky was burning.

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving Day. Mike and Mindy and their family came up from San Antonio and our friends (the Lusks) joined us too. We had way too much pie. But managed to eat it all by Saturday night. Nate brined a turkey this year (it seems a popular option this year) and it was delicious!! We played the candy game. Not much candy, but lots of other prizes. I ran the Turkey Trot in Austin. It was very cold (39 degrees) but fun nonetheless. I'd never run a 5 mile race and really enjoyed it. But it took 3 miles to get warmed up! We saw Enchanted on Saturday. Everyone liked it. Very well done. Nate and Mike got up early on Black Friday for a trip to Best Buy. (Let's just say that I got my Christmas present early as it was too big a box to hide) and the kids have been playing in the box ever since. (I tell you, all you need to give kids for Christmas is sticks, rocks, and a giant cardboard box! Who needs ToysRUs when you can get a box for free!) Hope everyone else had a great holiday as well. We are now gearing up for Christmas...I got out my Christmas dishes! And the candle windmill and song and story books. We are good for the next week or so. Maybe some lights will get up if it warms up some. It's supposed to freeze tonight but be back in the 60's tomorrow afternoon, so maybe...)Happy Holidays everyone!

Remade

I found two tops on clearance at old navy and decided that they would make cute skirts for my girls. So I cut off the straps and added elastic for Aspen's and then made a top to sew onto Hazel's. It was pretty fun!

Enchanted Rock

We went camping with friends a couple saturdays ago out to Enchanted Rock. We love going out there and it was a perfect weekend for camping. not too hot, not too cold (it could have been colder) and we had a great time. The kids played on all the big boulders near our campsite and in the fire (of course) and we ate lots of s'mores. On Saturday we hiked to the top of the Rock. Even Hazel made the climb to the top all by herself (and most of the way down too). She slept so well on the way home!!! They call it Enchanted Rock because of the noises the rock makes as it warms up in the day and cools off in the night. We need to do this more often.

More Random Questions

So the other night at dinner, Isaac posed a burning question--how long would it take a sloth to walk around the earth? He really wanted to know. So we did a little research, made some assumptions (same speed over oceans, sloth does not die, sloth does not sleep, does not stop to eat, etc. . . .

And the answer is . . . 25 years.

America the Beautiful

Today Aspen and Isaac participated in the Veterans Day celebration program at their school. Isaac wore his cub scout uniform and was part of the honor guard escorting in the veterans that were attending. Aspen performed a musical number with sign language with her class. It was a very moving program.
I am so thankful for the many men and women who have served and who serve our country today. They make it possible for me to enjoy so many freedoms. They perform a priceless duty for me and all of us. We pray daily for those serving our country all over the world. Thank you.

The color guard fom the VFW.
Aspen is in the white shirt behind the boy in green. Bad pic I know, but the only one I could get.
Isaac in uniform!

Trashification

I watched this the other day and just died laughing. It really resonates with me.


“It is my personal opinion that all things, all objects, everything you own really only exists as part of a parade of garbage to the dumpster. Everything you own is pre-garbage. Your home is a garbage processing center where new things are purchased and slowly demoted through various stages of trashification until you’re done. It starts out you’re excited. You bring it home you put it on the kitchen table. You read the instructions. You tell all the people in the house all about it. And then some time goes by, you realize maybe you’re not going to be quite as keen on drying out fruit and storing it in your basement as you thought you were going to be. And so the object is demoted to the closet. It’s there for awhile. Eventually it lands on the floor, you start stepping on it to reach newer things that are just beginning on their journey to junk. Then the garage. The garage can be one of the longest phases for the object. But it is the most definite. No object in human history has ever successfully made it from the garage back into the house. Even the word garage seems to be a form of the word garbage (prounounced garbajjj). When you’re living in the same room as the garbage cans, well, it won’t be much longer now. Really, eBay is the only thing that can save the object at this point. Ebay, of course, another great step forward in human culture. Hey, why don’t we mail our garbage back and forth to each other. It’s all gotta go, my friends. Everything is thrown out in the end. Even we are thrown out, in the end, my friends. And when I hear about someone that died and wanted certain important personal possessions put in with them when they’re buried, I’m all for that. Take your crap with you."

-------------------------Jerry Seinfeld on Late night with Conan O'Brian Friday, November 2, 2007

PS I was going to link to the actually episode so you could watch it in person. But NBC's website is having difficulties. I think they're changing stuff around. anyway, i'll fix it later. It is hilarious to watch the words come from him.

PPS They removed this episode from the website. So you'll just have to take my word for it that he was hilarious.