Okie Thanksgiving 2011

In the past we've had a TX Thanksgiving. But this year, the Family descended upon Oklahoma. :D We had family from California, Missouri and Texas come in for the holiday and it was great! There were gift exchanges, eating, meet ups, eating, outing to the movies with the kids, eating, watching football on the t.v., eating, shopping trips, the run and yes...more eating.

And... oops! I'll have to finish this post later!

(6 hours later) Hey! Sorry about that! Realized that I was supposed to be at my eye appointment and had to bolt! :D

It was great seeing all the family! Many who we only see once a year! :(

Christmas gift exchange with the out of town cousins.

The Kids!

Little Man loved seeing all of his cousins!

Although little "J" wasn't so keen on taking a group photo.

Football!

And more football!

Miss C and her Daddy

P, myself and J participated in the Turkey Trot

the day after Thanksgiving.

Had to run off all those calories!

We think this should be a yearly tradition from now on.

The Men of the Family

And the Ladies!

I included this one because I love it!

Grandma M took it on LM's first day of Pre-K back in August.

Lab pics.....Ewwww!

We've been doing dissections in Lab and I have to say, I'm just slightly less grossed out than I was in High School. Once you get the thing cut open, it's kinda cool. It's cutting into it that is SO NASTY!

Cow Eyeball, and yes, they do squirt.

That is probably the only thing from dissecting one

in High School that I remember.

Fetal Pig

They were bigger than we expected but surprisingly easy to dissect.

Ours was a girl and we had to identify the major organs

as well as the reproductive organs.

I don't think I'll ever eat pork again.

Almost time for Breaking Dawn!

Soundtrack from Breaking Dawn was released today and the movie comes out Friday next week! Yeah!

Ahhhhhhh Fall...

This past weekend we were going to take a drive (5 hrs round-trip) to view the fall foliage in our state but we decided that (A). We had plenty of pretty trees around town and (B). We were feeling too lazy that day to spend 5 hours in the car. :D

Here are some pics from a local park:

Little Man!

So happy to be back in Oklahoma where you actually get the changing colors of the leaves.

Halloween

On Halloween Day I took Little Man by his Great Grand-Parents house for a quick visit and candy after school.

Great Grandpa opening the door and getting

attacked by the light saber wielding Darth Vader!

GiGi, Great Grandpa and LM

Darth and Princess Leia fighting

The Husb and LM before we set out Trick or Treating

There were a few houses that decorated and one had a "trick" that about scared the pee out of LM! hee hee! The family had a cooler next to the porch with a sign, "Free Candy", on it. When you opened it, a paper snake popped up! Scared me too but it was so funny! LM said, "Not funny!"

Another house had a guy with a white stocking over his face so he looked like a male mannequin. LM told him, "you're creeping me out".

Maybe next year we can incorporate some tricks into our decorations!

Boo Ha Ha!

This morning we met family down at the Boo Ha Ha event! It's held at this fun area of town and all the business hand out candy & snacks to the kids. They also have a costume contest and a parade but we all wanted to take a break before college football started. :)

Me (Princess Leia), The Husb (Han Solo)

and Little Man (mini Darth Vader)

Grandma M with LM and cousin J (Fireman)

Sharing each others costumes.

LM was excited to see another Star Wars character!

Boba Fett!

Ran into my twin!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

More Phone Pics

More random pics from my phone!

Really need to just carry my good camera with me at.all.times...except it weighs down the "mom purse"...not like the extra quarters for the trinket machines, the extra spray bottles of hand sanitizer, a combination lock in case I make a quick stop at the gym and random other things DON'T weigh it down already. HA! :D

Uncle E with Little Man!

My brother is a cop who lives in Kansas with his family. LM thinks he is SO cool because he drives a police car, carries a gun, has a badge and throws bad guys in jail.

School has been keeping me busy, Busy, BUSY! Anatomy & Physiology is my favorite class with my least favorite activity. Dissecting. BLEH! Wednesday's lab had us dissecting and identifying different parts of a sheep's brain. ((shudder)) I was the only one in my group willing to go up and get the thing...luckily our professor suggested we rinse them off first because I'm telling you, the smell was gagalicous. Seriously..I think if I had not eaten my breakfast so early that morning, I would have been making a mad dash for the bathroom. AND I forgot to rub Vick's under my nose that morning before leaving the house (old high school trick) so no help there.

Once we got started it wasn't so bad because we were so focused on making sure we could identify everything. Next up, COW'S EYEBALL! Woot Woot! <----- sarcasm.

Little Bo Peep's sheep isn't coming baaaaack.

Sorry..couldn't help myself! :D

Pics from phone

Needed to delete some pics from my phone and found a cute one and a REALLY random one.

The first one is of Little Man and I at the Disney Toy Story 3 on Ice show. (The Husb was there too). The show was pretty good! Lots of special effects and wire work but they added in some routines that weren't in the movie like the Barbie Chorus Line and edited out others because of time constraints. All in all, it was worth the money because LM loved it!

LM with his Woody light stick and Me.

This next pic is pretty small but its from my Anatomy & Physiology Lab. We just finished up a quiz and I noticed a couple of people looking in the refrigerator so I walked over to see what was so interesting. WELL! It was bags of cats prepped and tagged for dissection in another class. ((GASP))) One group had even named theirs "Boots". ((Are you kidding me?!)) But I just shook my head and took a picture with my phone because I HAD to put it on the Blog.

Hoping that I get a iPhone for Christmas so I can take better spur of the moment pics! :)

(hint! hint!).

Pumpkin Patch!

On Sunday, the family got together out at the Pumpkin Patch for pictures, pony rides, camel rides and the petting zoo! Beautiful weather too!

Cousin J and Little Man

Climbing around the pumpkin mountain!

Yee Haw!

Camel!

Feeding the baby goats with Grandma M and Aunt P.

And Even More Picture Catch Up!

We celebrated Grandma M's Birthday last month!

Don, Grandma M, cousin J and Little Man.

Let Grandma blow out her candle!

Even More Picture Catch Up!

When we moved back to Oklahoma back in July, I thought about all the wildlife we would miss seeing in our yard & neighborhood.

Last week I had noticed that the birds, blue-jays in particular, seemed really agitated but I thought maybe there was a cat roaming around. Then when I got home from the grocery store, a squirrel was on a branch over our driveway, barking up a storm. Strange.

Well! The other day, my mom and I were in our front yard chatting and I noticed something that looked like fuzz blowing around. We grabbed one and saw that it was a feather. Mom said maybe the birds were molting or something. Then we saw that it was falling from the magnolia tree so I walked over and looked up...and this is what I saw!

A Sharp Shinned Hawk with what looked like a smaller bird.

He gave me his profile. :)

Beautiful bird but his yellow eyes, sharp beak & talons kinda freaked me out. He was pretty close!

I don't mind if he hunts bluejays (they're noisy and mean) but he better leave my dove and bunnies alone!