Happy 14th Birthday Minnie!

 Just a HANDFUL of my favs from this past year... I love your smile, I love your fierce competitiveness, I love your LOVE for tiny people, I love your sense of humor, I love when you full belly laugh, I love you playing with ALL your cousins, big and small, I love your friends and how you love them, I love you as a teammate, I love how perfectly you fit our family, I love that you are a porcupine, I love that a lot of these pictures you are sweaty :) I love YOU "sporty spice"! 

Thanksgiving Break (Part 2) Happy Birthday Minnie!

As is her tradition... Minnie asked to have a sleepover the day after Thanksgiving... This year it was Maddie, Serenity and Addison... 

 

Cookie painting (TRADITION)

I did a little game "who knows Minnie best"

Maddie with the 1/2 point win for "noodles/spaghetti" because she couldn't remember "chop suey" haha!

A girl pile up! Thankful to JJ for the movie projector! 

We did sliders for dinner with all the fixins'

TiTi for the win with cake pops!

and Husband ran out to grab our favorite fries and onion petals! YUM!

They played games and giggled the whole time and it made me so happy!

Dessert bar...

and spa treatments!

Meanwhile in the living room....

I put CJ in Minnie's bed since all the gals had taken over "his space"...

and moved Miss B into our room... poor thing... air mattress gave way so she woke up on the hard floor at 6AM thinking she was getting up for the day...

NOPE. Nice try Miss B... back to sleep for her until I got up at 7:40!!! I texted Tamarah, I was immediately thrown back to these days... this baby LOVED the "big biscuit" :)

Breakfast of eggs, bacon, bagels, yogurt, fruit, and two kinds of cinnamon rolls....AND a hot cocoa bar!

These two just reaped the benefits! :)

Loved every second of it... and I think she did too... :)

Thanksgiving Break (Part 1)

Kicked it off RIGHT with a sleepover with this guy on Wednesday.... sadly no deer for him this year but so SO VERY THANKFUL for all the snuggles and sleepovers this past month. Minnie already said she misses him knowing he won't be sleeping over every Friday.... 

Enjoying the big screen set-up that his Dad hooked Minnie up with for her bday sleepover.

MIL hosted this year and the kids wanted to go play football in the field across the street at church... these are the ONLY two pics from Thanksgiving. I'm always so envious of nice family posed shots with cute fall clothes but 

alas that is not my crew.... 

Not bad for a TID over Thanksgiving

On Friday Minnie and I drove by and there was yet again... ANOTHER fire... YIKES!

SCARY black smoke!

Thankful for these guys by the time we rolled home from the grocery store... 

Shuttin' it down....