Kids

Gotta love the kids. Monday, I walked out of the house to go to work. Benjamin was already up and sitting on the couch, while his mom and Sarah were still back in the bedroom. As I opened the door, I noticed that there was a fairly thick layer of fog. "It's foggy outside," I said as I left, mainly to myself.

Meron later told me that this exchange happened later in the day.

Benjamin: "Daddy said it was froggy outside."

Meron: "You mean foggy?"

Benjamin: "No, froggy! There are frogs everywhere! We have to be careful!"

He can definitely come up with some very creative things.

Thanksgiving was good. Ate lots of food, saw the family, etc. Our basic holiday.

Got together with a few friends to see Arkansas/LSU on Friday. Basically, when the right group of us gets together, it's Mystery Science Theater 3000 with sports. Lots of comments and running jokes going back and forth. Andy kept saying that he had a "turnover card" since LSU had recovered an Arkansas fumble on the first play of the game and kept trying to play it. Thankfully, they finally heard him on the last play of the game. Hogs 50, LSU 48, 3 OT. Ranks right up there with the Miracle on Markham as great Thanksgiving games our group has watched on TV.

Also was able to see my good friend Shively this weekend. I hadn't seen Shives since before Sarah was born, due to car issues and work issue with him. I was able to give him the league champion bobblehead we had received for running our keeper rotisserie league through CBSSportsline. As he said, "I'd put it on my mantle, if I had one."

We spent Saturday getting the Christmas lights up. I didn't do it last year--Meron got almost all of it done while I was watching the Hogs--so it took a while to get up the oomph to do it. However, after it was all said and done (and we may put a few more still), it looks pretty good. We've done the two trees (one in the den, one in Benjamin's room) as well, so just some minor things (stockings, Dickens Villages) left to do. We are having a Christmas open house on the 23rd, so we want it to look good for that. (And anyone in Russellville at that time is welcome to come by!)

So now we are just preparing for Christmas. Benjamin is really enjoying it. Sarah, well, she still doesn't know what's going on, but that's to be expected. Hopefully we'll get some Christmas pictures of the two of them done soon and I can get them up for your viewing pleasure!