We are having a great Thanksgiving week celebration with a lot of family in town, a lot of laughter, and a lot of food! Here's a look!
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| We kicked off Thanksgiving week with a Sunday night cookout at Paw and Bmaw's! Most of the Howells (her brothers/their families) were there, and the food was great as usual! |
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| Cason and Uncle Robin |
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| Cambree & Andie - our kids still had to go to school the next 2 days! |
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| Caedmon & Paw |
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| The cousins have spent every free second (weather permitting) working on their conversation of a huge chicken coop into the "Cuzinz Fort!" |
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| On Monday, my new cousin Toni stopped by for lunch on her way from Arizona to San Antonio! We found Toni when I did an Ancestry DNA profile and she showed up as a first cousin match. It turned out she had been searching for her biological dad, who turned out to be my mom's brother - all confirmed with DNA tests. Crazy! |
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| Grandma Marie, Mama, me, and Toni Marie |
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| On Tuesday, after Caedmon's first basketball game, the Tidwell gang (three brothers and their fams) headed to Chickfila and to see Frozen 2! |
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| Cambree and Keysi back together again! |
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| Of course, we've had a couple of sleepovers thrown in there! |
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| On Wednesday (when the weather turned frigid!) we went out to Heart of Texas Baptist Encampment and made use of their zip line, ropes course, rock wall, and free fall for a couple of hours! Bmaw had been given a gift certificate for an hour's play for 20 of her family members - what a great gift! |
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| It took me a LONG time to scoot off of the side of that building for the zip line! |
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| It was fun. I'll never do it again. |
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| Everyone else thought it was awesome! |
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| Cason the corpse! |
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| Love that smile on Paw! |
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| Caedmon isn't much for heights, or jumping off of things, so he stuck to the rock wall! |
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| So handsome! |
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| The ropes course was my favorite part! |
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| Blu on the rock wall. Of course his brothers decided it was a competition for who could get to the top the fastest! (Of course Blu won. ;) |
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| And Paw somehow ended up on the ground! |
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| It was a high ropes course! |
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| So the free fall..basically you step off the side of the building and free fall for 2.5 seconds and then land easily. Well you're SUPPOSED to land easily... |
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| I was completely terrified. |
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| And did not manage to land on my feet. |
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| Sooo....I tried again. |
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| Same result..this time I slammed my head into that wall..thank goodness for helmets! |
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| Blu doing the free fall! |
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| Such a good picture of Shade and Andie! Poor AJ was sick so Caity and AJ missed out on this. |
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| On to Thursday, actual Thanksgiving Day...we had a Winsman Thanksgiving over at Mom and Dad's with Grandma Marie (and Paw and Bmaw!) |
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| Lots of domino playing! (Girls won 3 in a row at 42!) |
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| Family pic! |
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| Four generations! |
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| Mom thought something was very funny in this picture... |
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| And in this one.... |
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| It has been great to spend a little time with Grandma Marie - she's 85 years old (I think?) and still going pretty strong! |
So that's a look at our Sunday - Thursday.. today is Tidwell Family Christmas, and tomorrow is Howell Family Thanksgiving, so lots still going on! AND today is 2 weeks until we leave for Zambia!
