Breaking the Silence

This blog has been pretty silent for a while now, and it certainly isn't because we haven't been doing anything or don't have anything to report. It's because we have been in an Internet Black Hole for the last few days. I don't have time now to go into all the details, but here are some of the highlights:

• Weston completed his "13 Poster" and celebrated with a couple of games of pool and dinner at the local bowling alley.
• The kids finished up their CC semester and another month of school.
• We attended an amazing live performance of "The Miracle Worker" at the local community theater.
• We had a rockin' tamale-making party, complete with costumes, Latino music and our beloved Florez (a painting which, unfortunately, cannot be described). 
• I had a baby check-up, in which everything looked and sounded good.
• Ruth more than accomplished another AR reading goal by reading the unabridged version of "The Three Musketeers," which, by itself, is worth 42 AR points! 
• We made the trek out to the family ranch, where my father-in-law killed an enormous bull elk and Ruth shot her first deer--a beautiful 8-point black tail!
• We enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving dinner in a rustic environment.
• Weston turned 5!
• We made another road trip to visit my side of the family. Here, we had another birthday party for Weston, read a family history (which includes Daniel Boone's brother and a lady named Elvira), and devoured another Thanksgiving dinner.
• Max is pretty much wearing underwear full-time now, with only a few accidents here and there.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and enjoyed all the time spent with family! We truly have so much to be thankful for, as you can see just from this short list! I hope that I will be able to add pictures of all our adventures at some point, but I'm not making any promises.