Thanksgiving 2018

We had a fun week celebrating Thanksgiving with the family.

Sherah's family stayed with us from Wednesday through Saturday.

Thursday for Thanksgiving we went to Aunt Sandy and Uncle Marvin's house.

Friday night we had dinner at Grandma and Papa's house.

Saturday lunch was also at Grandma and Papa's.

Today, we mostly took it easy.  We had been petsitting for Luna and her family picked her up last night.  This morning we petsat for Nikko, our neighbor's Golden Retriever, while they moved to their new house.

Morry and I took the dogs on a long walk.

This afternoon the boys decorated shirts and a hat.

Then, they watched the Steelers game.

For dinner, we went to a Chinese restaurant with Grandma and Papa.

Now we are getting ready to go back to work and school tomorrow.

Here are some pictures from the last few days.

Vet Adventure

Yesterday Noah had his cooking class and seemed to have fun.

In the afternoon we took all three animals to the vet for their yearly checkup.  They were all due and we thought it would be better just to take them all at the same time.  So, all four of us plus the 3 animals went to the vet.

They were amazed at how much Lizzy improved since the last time she was there.  She has a tumor in her rectum that is slow growing, but there's really nothing we can do for it.  Besides that, she's doing pretty well.

Flash checked out fine.  Everything looked good.

Calvin has lost quite a bit of weight.  He's down to the same weight as Flash now (8.3 pounds).  We got some bloodwork done.  Today, they said they think he has a UTI so we will start him on antibiotics for 10 days to see if that helps.  If he continues to lose weight we will need to bring him in for an ultrasound.

Last night we grilled steak for dinner.

Today, Noah went to cooking camp again and enjoyed it.

Evan hung out with Morry at Aaron's for meetings.  Evan really enjoyed doing that and getting lunch with all of them at the Little Deli.

This afternoon, Evan hung out with Wade.  They went swimming at Lifetime Fitness.

I was supposed to tutor this afternoon but it got rescheduled for Thursday.

For dinner, we had corned beef.

We took a walk after dinner.

Now we are going to have dessert - s'mores on the grill.

Sugar

This morning we took it easy at home.  Morry did work and I got stuff done around the house.

Early afternoon we left to run some errands.  First, we went to HEB to pick up something for Evan's class gift exchange. Then, we went to Voodoo Doughnuts to pick up dessert for the potluck tonight.  Next, we went to Barnes and Noble to get a book for the potluck gift exchange.

Evan and Morry went to Jesse's birthday party from 3-5.

Noah and I went over to the neighbor's party around 4:30.  Morry and Evan met us there after the birthday party.

It was a nice party.  The kids had a ton of sugar.  There was a table with desserts.  Then, they also had smores and hot chocolate at the party.  Both boys made smores.  Evan got hot chocolate and I put a few marshmallow in it for him.  Then, he decided to put even more marshmallows in the his drink. I think he had a little hot chocolate with his marshmallows.

When we got home the boys got ready for bed.

Morry is still working tonight and I still have a ton of stuff to do to get ready for the week.

Here are some pictures from today.

Downtown

Today the boys and I spent a lot of time downtown. We started at the Blue Cat Cafe. It's a "Vegan cafe serving light fare featuring rescued cats available for adoption plus resident felines." No, we were not going to adopt a cat. We got a couple of appetizers to share. There wasn't much on the menu that the boys would eat. We shared a pita plate that was supposed to come with humus, but they were out so it had black beans instead. We also got chips and salsa. The boys enjoyed playing with all of the cats.

 The boys couldn't agree on where to go next. Evan wanted Voodoo Donuts and Noah wanted s'mores from a coffee shop. We decided to make two stops.

 From there we walked toward Voodoo Donut. We passed the Toy Museum and stopped in there for a minute. I thought they just took donations, but we were told the admission fee was $9 for adults and $4 for kids. We (or I) decided we'd come back another time.

 We stopped in Voodoo donut and Evan ate his donut.

Then, we walked to Halcyon for s'mores.

 While we were walking the boys were playing the Pokemon game on my phone. There were lots of Poke stops downtown.

 Noah enjoyed the s'mores. Evan had a few as well.

 We walked back to the car as the wind picked up. It started sprinkling a little bit on a way home.

 We stopped at HEB to pick up a few things and got home around 5pm.

 We had pasta and quinoa (me) with veggies for dinner.

 We took Lizzy for a walk after dinner.

 The boys will be getting ready for bed soon.

 Here are some pictures from today.

Walk

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Last night, Evan was invited to sleep over at Wade's house.  Noah ended up sleeping at Grandma and Papa's while Rachel and I went out to dinner downtown.  We then walked to a coffeeshop where they let you cook s'mores at your table.  It was nice.

This morning, Rachel walked to get Noah close to noon.  Evan came home just before that.  Wade's mom dropped him off.

We had lunch and then went for a walk around the Costco shopping center.  It was 95 degrees out.  It's a fairly short walk - a little more than a mile so we brought Lizzy even though it was hot.  Somewhere around half way, Lizzy just stopped and refused to walk.  We had brought water for Lizzy but it was back at the car.  We figured we'd make it around and then let her drink.  So Rachel, Evan and Noah ran up ahead to get the water for Lizzy and bring it back.  Lizzy and I slowly walked going from spot of shade to spot of shade.  We got the water for Lizzy and put it on her belly and gave her some to drink though she didn't drink that much.  We tried to get her moving again but she had laid down and looked comfortable and flat out refused to move.  Evan, Noah and I went back to the car.  We had parked at Smoothie King and we had promised the boys smoothies.  So we went in there and got smoothies for the 4 of us and then drove and picked up Rachel and Lizzy.  Lizzy is acting completely fine.  I think her not walking was more out of being stubborn and not wanting to walk when it was that hot than her not feeling well.  But we didn't want to take a chance by making her walk any more.

When we got back, Rachel made cookies for the block party tomorrow.  The boys and I watched Die Hard 2.

We got Papa John's for dinner.

The boys are getting ready for bed.

Until next time...

Wearing Evan Out

This morning we went to Borders to pick up a few gifts.

Gabby came over at 12pm. Barton Creek Resort and Spa/ Country Club was having free ice skating today. Evan has been begging me to take him ice skating again. I asked Gabby to come over and watch Noah so I could take Evan.

The whole club is very nice and in the hills of Westlake. I had only been there one other time.

Luckily it wasn't too crowded when we got there. For a little while Evan and I were the only ones on the rink. Evan did very well and was actually doing some spins. We took a break and got some hot chocolate and s'mores. They had a s'mores package and you could roast the marshmallows in the fireplace. Evan did not want his marshmallow burned or smooshed. He enjoyed just making graham cracker sandwiches with chocolate and marshmallows. The people working at the ice rink said you don't have to be a guest to take advantage of some of the stuff they have there. She said we could come back and eat at their restaurants any time (who knows how much that costs) or do any of the spa services.

After skating we walked around the resort a little bit. They actually have a miniature golf course there. I asked how much it was to play and the woman wasn't sure since normally it's for guests play, so she said we could sign in as a guest and play for free. Evan was super excited. We played all 18 holes and Evan did very well.

After playing golf we came back home. I was only at home for about 30 minutes and then had to leave to go tutor.

When I got home we ate dinner. I had fish and Morry had chicken. Evan wasn't feeling well and he actually has a fever now. Poor guy. He just lied down on the couch during dinner and didn't want to eat.

We just put the boys to bed. Evan fell asleep right away. Noah is still talking and asking for things.

Here are the pictures and video from today.