The Accidental Boilermaker

We don’t even have an inch of snow but Evelyn and Jameson still had fun running around and making snow angels.

We had a great Thanksgiving in Decatur.  Meredith and Jeremy came up from Louisiana so we took lots of family pictures. The weather was perfect on Thursday.   Evelyn and Jameson were excited to play soccer, frisbee, and hide and seek with Uncle Jeremy (who is probably hiding somewhere in the backyard). Evelyn got to climb a tree with Aunt Meredith and Aunt Katherine. Jameson took a pretend nap on the floor with Aunt Katherine. Evelyn played Outfoxed with Mimi, Uncle Jeremy, and Aunt Katherine. And Jameson narrowly escaped a trip to the urgent care.  He and Evelyn received umbrellas as a gift from my Aunt Martha.  It rained Friday afternoon so Nate took them outside for a walk to use the new umbrellas.  Jameson started running to catch up with Evelyn, tripped, and smacked his head on the pavement.  Thankfully everything seemed to look worse than it actually was.

Evelyn’s school had their thanksgiving feast today. Evelyn’s pilgrim hat was a little big.  Lots of yummy food. Evelyn actually ate her mashed potatoes this time. I ate her turkey and it was pretty good too.  Little pilgrim Jameson. He enjoyed helping Evelyn eat her chocolate cake for dessert. 

It’s opening weekend for the outdoor skating rink. We were downtown yesterday doing some Christmas shopping and drove by the rink just to check it out. Evelyn was so disappointed that we weren’t actually skating so we promised her we’d come today. Jameson had a really good time. He probably did the best he has ever done skating. Sometimes he doesn’t want to bear his own weight on the skates and it makes it really hard to push him around the ice. But not today and even he practiced marching a few times.  Evelyn did her own thing, flying across the ice. She’d fall, get back up and keep going.  The rink was crowded and the ice got carved up quick; I fell twice with Jameson but thankfully both times we were fine. 

We skipped church tonight to attend an owl event at Eagle Marsh. There was an educational presentation and then they brought out a few different owls. There was probably 100 people there which made it hard for Evelyn and Jameson to see the owls.  So we waited in line to get a close up view. There was also a hike to try and find an owl. We missed the main hike while we were waiting in line, so we did a short walk in the dark since Evelyn and Jameson insisted on hiking. Finally we stopped at Panera on the way home to warm up with a hot chocolate.