November

Katie was enjoying her coding class.

Besides the Halloween themed games from October....

...all her other games featured a black labrador puppy as the playable character.

Here's Ralph taking on a grumpy crab.

Mikey is obsessed with facial hair.  Although, he says when he grows up, he doesn't want it.

A local gardening center had a huge display of poinsettia's and some other Christmas-y stuff.

We decided to visit.

Balloons, candy canes, pretty flowers....

What else could you possibly need?

A giraffe, I guess.

Mikey REALLY wanted to take that guy home.

Notice the "I can't live without him" look.

Katie liked the reindeer, but thankfully didn't try to use her sad eyes to manipulate me.

Mikey had no such qualms.

I will let this picture speak for itself.....

Dude.  WE  HAVE A LIVE ONE AT HOME.

"What am I, chopped liver?"

"Mmmmmm.

Chopped liver sounds yummy right about now.

I'm soooooo hungry.  It sure would be nice if someone would give me a treat......."

Execute cute puppy eyes....NOW!

Sigh.

Mikey and Ralph.

Brothers from another mother.

Ralph spent most of the fall just like this.

Eating leaves.

Keeps him regular.

Mikey became an author this month.

He created about a dozen books.

Illustrations and words.

It's crazy.

Speaking of crazy, I'm not sure what happened here.

Maybe this helps the creative juices flow.

I have no idea.

Somewhere in November we went to see Disney On Ice.

Big hit, as always.

The kids learned about Jack Skellington and wanted to watch Nightmare Before Christmas.

I was a bit nervous.  That Oogie Boogie is creepy.

But they liked it!

And now we have to listen to the songs every day.

The same thing happened with The Muppets Most Wanted.

Everyday.

Muppets songs.

Over and over and over.......

Thanksgiving Day was finally here.

We all watched the parade, as tradition dictates.

(As if anyone had a choice)

After the parade the dog show was on.

Ralph really liked it.

Turkey's done!

It was FAN-TAS-TIC!!

I found a pre-made gluten-free nut-free pumpkin pie.

Ralph was so jealous.

"Whazzat?"

Katie really liked the pie.

I think Mikey bit off more than he could chew, dessert wise.

It snowed.

The kids got outside to make some snow men and throw some snowballs then retreated quickly inside because it was COLD.

Ralph LOVED the snow.

He was a happy, snow-mustachioed puppy.

Did I mention that it was COLD?

Ugh.

It was.

Below freezing for days.

I had to bundle up for Ralph walks.

Even put foot and hand warmers on.

Um.

Yeah.

Beard.