Friday

I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We have enjoyed having some time off, seeing our families, and celebrating Thanksgiving. Walter is building a bird feeder for one of his sisters for Christmas and was working on it this week. Landen came to spend the night Tuesday night, so he wanted to build a bird feeder of his own.

When I brought him home Wednesday afternoon, he went out in his backyard and attempted to dig a hole to put his bird feeder in. It really looked pretty stable, but it wasn't.

Elizabeth & I went out to see it and she accidentally knocked it over! I could have chosen to try to keep her from knocking it over, but instead I decided to take pictures!!

Landen was extremely upset and again, instead of being helpful, I continued taking pictures!!

Eventually, we helped him get it to stand up again, but I'm quite sure it fell over as soon as we left!! Maybe Elizabeth's boyfriend will help him dig a deeper hole. Regardless, Landen was very proud of his bird feeder. He filled it with corn, so I'm not sure how many birds he will attract.

Here is a picture of Elizabeth & Mac. If he looks really big in this picture, it's because HE IS!!!

We went to Metairie, about an hour from our house, for Thanksgiving at Walter's youngest brother's house yesterday and had a great day. The weather was nice and we were able to spend most of the day outside. As usual, there was way too much food, but it was all really good!!! We didn't take many pictures, but here is me and one of my sister-in-laws listening intently to someone's story!

And then this is Keith - the younger one on the right. He probably doesn't look like someone who was about to have an emergency appendectomy, but yeah, unfortunately, by the time he got to his aunt's house in Baton Rouge where he was staying last night to go hunting early this morning, he began having really bad pains in his stomach and was taken to the emergency room in the early morning hours this morning. He had an appendectomy at 10:30 this morning and all is well. Walter & I visited him after the surgery and he is fine. But he wont be going hunting!

So, the only other news is that Walter & I are starting on a low calorie diet today and I'm not real amused about it. I've gained a few more lbs. lately and my clothes aren't fitting, so I will try this for a week or two and if that doesn't work, I'll go back to my no-fail low-carb diet.

Have a great evening!