First Annual Fries Turkey Bowl

It begins like this...

Joshua: Says something I am sure interesting and I am sure worth listening to..and "we will be here for Thanksgiving"

Tyffany: "We should have a turkey bowl like in high school"

And the rest is history.

Who doesn't want to get some exercise and fellowship with friends before going and gorging themselves on turkey day festivities? 

It was so much fun and we will be doing it every year! Guaranteed! 

 The field being prepared

 The fire for those not playing, but just here for fellowship (I am sure you are surprised to hear that was mainly made up of women)

 Breakfast for the champions that joined us.

 And it begins.

 Grown ups and kids alike took to the field.

 The chickens in the coop didn't even mind.

 One of our cheerleaders...

 A cute nephew...seriously

 Justin's game face

 There was an injury on the field and these boys "took a knee"

And even though Josh was part of the invention of this game, he showed up at 10:50, 10 minutes before the game was over and as we sent this picture to Tysen, Josh felt the need to show him all that he had learned from Tysen in the past. 

Looking forward to next year! 

Great White Turkey

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Great White Turkey again this year.  

My phone didn't do as well with the photos, or it could be the 3 kiddos making the half eye- scary faces that I won't document that did it.  Either way these are the only two pictures I have.  

The Turkey brought a movie (Elf), a game (Beat the Parents) and some pajamas. 

Abecedarian 2013

I am so very thankful to be the tutor for our homeschool Classical Conversations community's Abecedarian class, which is the 4/5 year old class.  I normally have 8 children and last Monday I only had 3 students.  My sweet nephew Paxton, was able to join us from his big brother's class.  I did a fun little review game where they made Pilgrim and Indian hats.   

I love Lylah's face in this picture, this is her new "Mom says smile" camera face.  I believe she is trying to smile without showing her teeth for some reason, and this is what we get.  

Fries Family Apple Press

We spent a Friday night pressing apples with Tim's family. 

We ended up with 30 plus gallons of juice.  

My freezer is stocked and ready to go. 

 Avarie was a trooper, all the other kids ended up in the house playing and watching TV.  

She stuck it out to the very end.  

 Dashel is the cutest, isn't he?!?!

I have the cutest nephews! 

Halloween 2013

We went to our church trunk or treat and then to Nanny/Papas for Halloween.  

Avarie was a barrel horse rider, TJ was Phil from Duck Dynasty and Lylah was Mickey Mouse. 

Pretty cute Fries kiddos

Thompson Farms

We had a field trip with some of our favorite people.  

The Phillips and The Other Fries' 

joined us in the middle of the day at a local pumpkin patch (another perk of homeschooling).

It was a beautiful day and we had a ton of fun. 

Happy Fall! 

Pumpkins

We carved some pumpkins this year, Lylah didn't quite "get" the idea of carving them however.  I didn't get a close up of TJ or Avarie's unfortunately.  

The whole family