November!

Ahh, November - my favorite month of the year.  The weather is perfect, and there's Thanksgiving.  What's not to love about a holiday full of yummy food?!?  We ladies had a great month, relatively low-key before the onslaught of Christmas hits us.  Daddy had a very busy month with week-long trips to both Paris and Berlin between other trips in October and December as well.  We had lots of excitement on the 4th when sweet nephew Cooper Edward was born!  He came one day early and is just perfect and adorable.  We love him so much!  We ladies couldn't stay away and had to go visit him that Friday and Saturday before Bob got home from his trip.  The girls were mildly interested in holding him, but that was about it.


The 7 grandkids!

The rest of the week was fairly calm other than fighting a losing battle with our downstairs heater that finally got fixed two weeks later.  Luckily, it wasn't too cold most of that time and I enjoy the cold!

Bob was home the week of the 9th, and we enjoyed our time together.


Veteran's Day out and about for the girls!

We also had Bella's annual check-up (checked out good for an old girl, just needs to have her teeth cleaned - $$$) and Anna's 6-month cardiology checkup that week.  They were able to get good pictures and ultrasound because she did perfectly (first time with no crying!) and determined that it is time for the hole between the atria to be repaired.  We have that scheduled for next Thursday, December 11, so stand by for updates.  We will have to stay one night at UNC hospitals, and we are really hoping that this catheter procedure will work so they don't have to do open-heart surgery.

Bob jetted back overseas on the 15th, and we ladies had a fairly busy week with dog-sitting for one neighbor and mom-sitting for another.  Luckily, both behaved themselves.  Anna and I also went to our first of two puppet shows at the library in a month:



Anna also had 2 playdates this month with a boy from her class, much to Bob's chagrin.  Fortunately, Weston is a very sweet little guy and it seems that Anna is the front runner of the 5 girls who are vying for his attention at preschool!  Both girls had fall festivals/Thanksgiving feasts at their respective schools on the 21st, which I enjoyed attending!


Anna is hiding in the corner in a pink dress.

Daddy got home that evening, and we had a great time on Saturday at Josh and Kati's house for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner!  We also went to our first Wolfpack basketball game of the season that Sunday, which the girls greatly enjoyed (the concessions).  Good thing our wonderful neighbors gave us the tickets, because we managed to spend $40 in food!



We went back to Concord for Thanksgiving, which was lots of fun too!


Pie prep before heading to Concord

It is always so nice to spend time with our family there, and we also went to Cooper and Cole's house on Friday to spend more time with them.  We got our plans finalized for Beach Trip 2015, which we are really looking forward to!


Cousin Advent Wreath craft time

We got back from Thanksgiving and got our Christmas decorations up.  And so it begins...