Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving because you get to think about how wonderful life is and sit down to a home cooked meal with family and/or friends. I have so very much to be thankful for this year. I have a wonderful husband and son who fill my heart with joy each and everyday. I am always thankful for all of my friends and extended family who enrich our lives. I am thankful for the absolutely beautiful fall we had here with perfect fall weather and tons of trees to enjoy colored leaves. I am thankful that Dave has a job he loves but also one that doesn't make demands on his time outside of normal working hours. Since passing his licensing exam in August, I am thankful for the complete peace we now have in our lives. We have absolutely nothing going on or coming up. It's been a long long time and I treasure these moments of not having 100 things running through my head.

My first attempts at pumpkin pie (crust from scratch but pumpkin out of a can) and corn bread from scratch

He loves to help

28 lbs of Thanksgiving goodness (courtesy of my sister in law)

Dinner with Jay, Susie, and kids

My little turkey had a big day

AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pizza Night

Last year my friend Jamie introduced me to the Twilight movie. I loved it and want to see the next one in the series. Since Dave hadn't seen it, we rented it last night. We used Red Box for the first time. I think we are the last people to start using Red Box, but if you haven't, it is awesome and only costs $1. Well what goes better with a movie than pizza? We picked up the movie and headed over to Pizza Hut.

The pizza came with one little tiny slice of pizza among the pizza pie. It was meant to be for Jack's first piece of pizza. He was so cute!!! He picked off every piece of sausage and then ate the pizza. Dave got this sweet shot with the camera on his phone.

It's nights like this one that make me realize it won't matter if we are stationed some where we like as much as Fort Belvoir. We will have a good time together any where.

Jack's First Hair Cut

I have been wanting to cut Jack's hair for almost two months. Everytime I got it in my head to get his hair cut, someone would talk me out of it with "no, you can't cut those curls." It finally got to where I couldn't take it anymore. I loved it when it was just two little curls, but his hair was getting out of control. We brought him in and the woman cutting his hair said "are you sure you want me to cut off these curls?" YES. Jack did really well and the woman did a great job!

snip snip snip
Check out the mohawk
All done

We were told this would happen ..

Now if we could just teach him to use it ;)

The Weekend

Over the weekend we went to a birthday party for our friends' daughter, Dave had a poker night, and we watched football. Everyone at the party was in Dave's last unit at Ft Campbell. Did they all get put out to pasture in DC? I think it may have more to do with the fact that both ILE (major's course) and tons of field grade officer jobs are here. Jack was in heaven playing with all the little kids. It was fun :)

I get CAKE?

This is a random photo that has nothing to do with my post, but I like it :). Jack has made a walker out of our recycling bin.

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun Halloween. Our friends Bill and Kim sent Jack a really cute "Jack-O-Lantern" costume for his birthday. He also got a cute little bag that even has "Jack" written on the back of it. Also notice Dave has a cat on his shoulder in the family picture above ..... he is so silly sometimes.
This was the first holiday that was not Jack's first holiday :). We managed to have plenty of firsts though. He stood independtly for the first time, did his first trick or treat, and had his first piece of candy. We went to a party at my friend Laurel's house. Her son TJ is only two weeks older than Jack. After the party, we went over to the Dolye house to watch USC play Oregon. It was a great Halloween!

Jack, TJ, and Keegan

Jack's first trick or treat :)

Enjoying his treat - his first piece of candy!