Conrad's Auntie June and cousin Ava drove all the way down from Michigan to see us! They did a lot of this:
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| Baby snugglin' |
and this:
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| Story readin' |
I was a big fan. Meanwhile, I tried to figure out how to include pecans in as many Thanksgiving dishes as possible.
The day after Thanksgiving Coen could not sit still until we had put up our Christmas tree.
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| Trying to get this child to smile a normal smile whilst looking at the camera makes me feel sympathetic for my poor mother, who ever tried and failed to get us kids to do the same. |
Notice how all the kidproof ornaments are on the very bottom of the tree. He was so impatient to get the ornaments up that he started before I had the lights finished, even though I explained to him that he would just have to put them back up after they fell off as I put the lights on. Later, when they did fall off, he explained to ME that next year we should put the ornaments on after finishing up the lights.
Conrad has been working the in ED, which may not be his favorite, but does give him an average of TWO days off a week instead of just one. To celebrate, we have been doing lots of hiking. Here are a couple pictures of our day trip to Machine Falls:
We also did a day hike around Radnor Lake, of which I have no proof. Sorry.
Here are a few of us hiking up to the cleverly named Hike Inn in Amicalola Falls State Park in Georgia. Five miles up you can stay in this little lodge where they have bunk beds, hot showers, and best of all, bacon.
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| Conrad manned up and hauled the 40 lb. child + our stuff up the mountain... |
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| ...while I struggled to carry our little chubber. |
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| All the hikers we passed had walking sticks, so Coen decided he needed one too, so he would "match." |
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Coen definitely progressed as a hiker during our three hikes. He went from picking up every acorn along the way and dragging his feet on our first outing to insisting on hiking all by himself during the last 3.5 miles down the mountain in Georgia.
In other news, my boys are very cute.
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| Silas Smiler Myler |
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| Silas' first Sunday in his suit. |
