{Grateful and Thankful & Stuff}

{I could have made this a couple of  posts but instead it's a whole bunch of Friday randomness...}

Last week the kids and I started working on a little Grateful Garland...Thankful Garland... whatever...

Wyatt keeps correcting me. I call it grateful and he calls it thankful. 

It doesn't matter, we are both grateful and thankful. 

So everyday we talk about what we are thankful for, usually over breakfast, 

and write it out on these little tags. 

Sometimes they want to write/sign their own and sometimes they don't. 

I cut leaves free-hand out of scrapbook paper, hole punched them, 

scrounged through our ribbon can, tied them on and hung it across the mantle. 

There ya go. 

Maybe I'll share our whole list next week.

Speaking of thankfulness and gratefulness and all that jazz, here are a few pictures 

from last week. Some were taken at our favorite park, some at one of my favorite 

parks and then some at our most-visited park (the one closest to us).

We had gorgeous weather last week,  it was even up in the 70's a few days!

  I actually think we went to a park four days in a row. For real. 

This week = not as nice but I'm not officially complaining....yet.

Look, short sleeves and flip-flops!

I say I am not complaining yet and I'm not but the complaining will come. Soon.

When the Winter Funk sets in and we are cooped up in the house and the sun is barely shining 

and you don't want to go anywhere because of the snow and ice and scraping the car

 and all you really want to do is lay in bed with a bag of Doritos watching old

 90210 and Gilmore Girls re-runs while the kids are forced to fend for themselves...

Okay, I'll quit. 

But you've been warned. It gets ugly in the winter around here.

Eric is hunting hanging out with the guys at the cabin this weekend. Lots of beer drinking, chest pounding and general ape-like behavior going on there while I am at home with the kids. 

I think he must have felt a little bad because he found me bootleg copies of Friday Night Lights

 episodes 1-3 of this season that just started. The final season of one of the best shows ever.

 We don't have Direct TV so normally we have to wait until Spring for FNL and yes, 

I know it's possibly illegal but it's Friday Night Lights and I love that show and 

I want to be Tammie Taylor and yeah,  I don't really care.  

So you know what I'll be doing tonight!

Other weekend plans include:

Christmas Parade tomorrow night and cousins spending the night

Possibly taking the kids' Christmas pictures before it gets way too cold

lots of lounging around in our pajamas tomorrow morning and

  Saturday Morning Cartoons and cinnamon rolls, by request.

How about you? Anything exciting going on?

Happy Friday, Y'all!

*Oh, I'm doin' Cartwheels over here today, too.