Thanksgoween

So much happening around here! But I'm feeling like I should be more committed to updating y'all so you can actually pray for what's happening; hopefully you'll see more of me on here. For this post, I wanted to show you some Halloween pics and share Thanksgiving stories. Tomorrow, I'll fill in some gaps on what's been happening on campus.

My totally awesome pumpkin!

Kyle's creativity at work! We love decorating our house for Halloween. It gets scary when it's dark, and we keep slowly adding to the collection by buying everything half off after Halloween each year. Which is how we got this:

Jack may look forlorn, but he's actually wagging his tail, waiting to go outside. We've never dressed him up before, but we couldn't pass up a hot dog costume for our weiner lab. My staff partner Ben suggested we get a lab coat for him to finish off the costume.

The first half of Thanksgiving week, we flew to Alabama to see the Holley's - Tag and Allison, Emma and Aubrie (our nieces, age 5 and 3). Aubrie says I'm nice and Uncle Kyle is silly. He sometimes twists his ball cap around his head. So silly. We ate well - home-fried chicken wings, Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends, and a night out for Allison and Tag's anniversary. I was laid out for a day with back pain. But the next day, we went to the playground. We pretended to be monkeys and ran away from evil Uncle Kyle, then trapped him by burying his shoes in pebbles. Emma helped us escape to the hippo. Very exciting!

The second half of the week, we stayed with my parents and brother north of Dallas. We watched the James Bond movie (awesome!) on Thursday, and gathered for Thanksgiving on Friday with the extended family. My cousin Sarah is a student athletic trainer at TCU and had to be in Austin for the football game with that other school on Thursday. I also got some great deals at JCPenney's on Black Friday. And I got to see lots of upsets in football all week - so much fun to watch!