Thanksgiving in Arkansas.

This year for Thanksgiving, we spent the week with our family in Arkansas.  Sunday after church, we hit the road and made it to Papa and Gigi's just in time for supper! The children were sooo excited!

From the time we leave our house until the moment when we see this beautiful sight, the children are asking, "Have we seen the bridge yet?"

And we always, always take our picture with the big Arkansas sign.  I don't even have to tell the children what to do anymore.  They just run to the sign and get in order, ha!  Love them! About two hours later, we arrived at Papa and Gigi's house to find supper on the table.  Sigh.  That's the making of what's sure to be a great week. 

David and his mom share the same birthday, so cool!  And at our house, we always have doughnuts for the birthday boy or girl on their special day.  Gigi got to have her birthday doughnut before she went to work that day. 

David got to enjoy his doughnuts with a few spectators.  Another birthday tradition is for the birthday boy or girl to choose where we eat supper or lunch.  The birthday boy picked Moe's for his birthday lunch.  Papa got to go with us, but Gigi had to work.  We celebrated David and Gigi the next night when the Calhouns made it to town to help us celebrate.  Sadly, I did not get any more pictures.  Shameful!

I did take one of this girl because on Thanksgiving Day, she lost her very first tooth.  Summer pulled it! David replayed the conversation for me.  Summer:  Tilly, honey, let me look at it.  Honey, it's ready to pull.  Tilly:  okay, Summer.  And big sister pulled it right out!

Friday, we called the hogs in hopes that they would help our dawgs get to the SEC title game by beating Missouri.  Sadly, it was not meant to be.  Saturday, we stayed to watch the good ole fashioned hate game between Georgia and Georgia Tech, and that game didn't end so well either.  Sigh.  It just wasn't the year for our dawgs.  After the Georgia game, we headed back home to Mississippi.  We had a wonderful time in Arkansas for Thanksgiving and were so sad for the week to end. 

It didn't take us long to get back into the swing of things at our house though, ha!  Carter and David hit the deer woods and took out a couple of does.  Both of which are already processed, bagged, labeled and in our freezer. 

And while the boys are away. . . Well, the girls just gotta play!