Thanksgiving Break

Kelissa's Thanksgiving break started a couple of days early.  She competed in the Miss Oklahoma Teen USA pageant last weekend.  Many friends were made as well as reacquaintances.  This four day event held my mother, me, Chloe, and Chi hostage to the hotel.  Imagine two toddlers at a beauty pageant!  We did take in the zoo and a couple of play areas.  Kelissa did really well.  She got fourth runner up and WON the swimwear competition!  I swore I'd never let her enter a pageant that did swimwear! She had a great time.  This is the top five.  All the girls were amazing!Maybe a bit sad here. But...... always keeps it in perspective.Then we made a quick trip to Dallas to see Jeff's dad and Lisa.  I got the crew out in front of the house for a quick picture.This is Chi showing off, which is his new thing to do.  He is ALL boy!!!

              Don't all of you make your kids ride like this, or is it just my little Mayan Indian.When we got back from Dallas we had our family "Road Warrior" day out.  We loaded up the kids, four wheelers, and some good food and went off roading.  Since Kade had just seen Road Warriors we had fun reinventing the movie Sanders' style.                     Kade  KelissaCasonDaddy, Chloe and ChiWe found this old boxcar and the temptation was there for chloe to climb it of course, so we all did.  Getting all my kids together is quickly coming to an end since Cason will be leaving for OSU next semester.  This was a very special time.All my precious cargo!Then we came home and decorated the tree.  This is one BIG tree!  Chloe tells everyone who sees it that there's no decorations at the top!  There's a reason for that!  Hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving!