Ryan's Preschool Thanksgiving Feast

We volunteered at Ryan's Thanksgiving feast before we left for Oregon.  The kids were so cute.

 

 

After the feast Mrs. McKinley asked everyone what they were thankful for.  Alanna was thankful for Jimmy and her mommy and daddy. Tyler was thankful for the whole earth. William was thankful for leaves and Halloween. Ryan was thankful for missiles. What ??? And snakes.  Yep.

Putting Up the Tree

This year we put up our decorations a week before Thanksgiving because there was only one weekend we'd be home before we left for Christmas and we wanted to enjoy the sparkling lights as long as possible.

This is a video of Max rocking out to the Trans Siberian Orchestra which he was really doing.  Pretty funny.



And Voila!

It's always getting ornaments moved by the littlest Epperson boy. :)

Jason and Evelyn

This first video is from October.  The second one is from November.  Too cute!

 

Max Cuteness

Yesterday evening, Max prayed that "he would be good when mom came to his school".  He told me at least 5 times how excited he was to have me come to school.  Today, I got to help in his reading class (which is a different teacher) and then in his class.  I did some projects for his teacher (cutting and copying) and then helped the kids with counting collections and grouping them so they could count by 5, 10, etc.  It was so fun.  It was also fun to see how excited the kids were to talk to "Max's mom" or "Mrs. Epperson".  The teacher had them all thank me at the end and then as I was leaving the school, they saw me from the lunch line and called out "Good-bye, Mrs. Epperson" over and over.  I seriously felt like a celebrity.  A total pick-me-up for someone with post-partum hormones. :)

Stay Calm and...

Yesterday morning I ran some errands and worked out.  I had 2.5 hours to myself and as I was stretching after my workout, I decided that I really some calm music to listen to while I stretched.  I just needed to quiet my mind and actually relax.  So I had a great post-workout stretch and decided to keep listening to my meditative music as I walked to the store to get a few things.  I browsed the Christmas decorations and just enjoyed the calm, the lack of noise and the time to myself.  When I was done browsing, I started to leave (still listening to my calm music).  All of a sudden it dawned on me that I had stuff in my hands and I quickly turned around and paid for it, joking with the store employee.  Sometimes you just need to get away and (almost) steal.  and bytheway, when I googled "Keep Calm and Steal" because that's what I thought of, why had someone really made a sign with that slogan?  Really people? haha.

Veteran's Day

For Veteran's Day, we decided last minute to visit the Museum of Flight.  We listened to the Boeing Employee's Band play songs as a tribute to veterans.

 

Looking around at everything but the camera.

Evelyn seeing mom's favorite plane, the Gee Bee.

 

They have a new exhibit on Amelia Earhart.  I didn't get pictures of it, but here is the engine that flew in her plane, the Lockheed Vega and it also was the engine of the Kingfisher, Grandpa Bob's plane. 

 Here is the plane Amelia flew, well, not the actual one of course.

The boys brought planes with them and were flying them around the whole time.

 Playing air traffic control.

 Jason staring at the airplanes.

 And of course we always have to take a picture in front of Ryan's favorite too, the Corsair or Skipper in "Planes". 

Planes!

Tony and I took the boys to see "Planes" two weekends ago.  The boys dressed as aviators.  Max doesn't have a bomber jacket anymore so he wore his Boeing hat.  They had so much fun. 

 

 

Ryan fell asleep.  Too cute!