Turkey warm-up

Who needs Thanksgiving turkey

when you can have

Thanksgiving spaghetti?

That makes more sense when

your family is Italian.

And we need cake.

Lots of cake.

"Tastes like diabetes" Cole said...

we thought that was hilarious.

On the way home,

we stumbled across a Christmas lights show.

We HAD to stop.

Always cool!

Getting into the spirit

Tonight we headed to downtown LS

for the annual Mayor's Christmas Tree lighting.

It was festive!

Ta-da!

Group shot

All this joy and cheer

is putting us in good moods

So good,

we'll get together

for a PJ picture

Gotta love

matching Christmas PJs!

No filter

Hiking makes us happy.

We checked out the Unity Village

nature trail today

for our weekend dose of happy.

There was this cool natural bridge

and a cool not-so-natural bridge

Some of us did not enjoy the hills

(see Tuck...)

but we did all enjoy being

together outside

Ahhh!

Happy.

Cuteness

Whether we are reading

in the bathtub

trying on new dapper clothes

or dressing like triplets

The adorableness is real. 

Howling Huskies take the ice

I was really pumped

to sing the National Anthem

at the Mavericks game

with my choir tonight

Look!

There we are on the big screen!

and on that one too!

Mom wanted a selfie with the star

Yep,

my fan club turned out in droves

Whirlwind

It's been way too long

since we were at the cabin.

Mom had to work tonight

so we had a Boys Night

down at the cabin.

We didn't know there was a dartboard!??!

Everyone took a turn

We needed new gravel

for the driveways and our new fire pit

and around the cabin...

this is what Mom saw when she pulled up

the next morning

We made a whole playhouse out of this pile!

(there was another one just as big next to it

we were saving for tomorrow...) 

We often work just as hard

as we play at the cabin.

Today was one of those days.

There were a LOT of leaves to rake

Teamwork makes the dream work!

Check out our pile!

We had 2 this size!

Mom and Dad forgot to take a before and after

but that big pile of gravel?

Yep, we moved one of the two piles

by hand all over the cabin.

And now,

we settle in around our newly

rocked-in fire pit

to celebrate

Nightmode

and selfie-style

Sunday brought a bit more shoveling

and finally some real playing

Tuck's dressed for adventure

Ranger was glad for a romp

We headed to the end of the road

and played in the sand.

I "heart" Mom

and Weston...well, he wrote his name

about as big as you can imagine

We put what is left of the gravel pile

to another good use...

Even Dad (and Mom) took a turn

Ahhh!

We needed this!

Back to the OR

See my hernia?

It squeezes back in really easily,

but it just won't stay in.

People are starting to notice it.

It shows through my clothes.

Mom and Dad decided it was time 

to get it fixed.

So Mom talked to her

surgeon friend Dr. Jason

and we headed to Children's Mercy

early this morning to get it done.

They distracted me with a lot of screens...

and as I got nervous,

I started to just pay attention to those

and ignore everyone else...

I refused to get undressed.

Despite Dad's best efforts

Maybe I thought if I kept my boots on,

it wouldn't happen.

But eventually,

they got the boots off...

It didn't take very long--

about a half hour.

There was a bump in the beginning

when the anesthesiologist noticed my weight was wrong.

Good catch, Dr. Pflumm!

It was smooth sailing after that.

All patched up!

But oh,

that anesthetic made me sleeeeeepy.

I'd start to eat or say something

and fall asleep in the middle

A recovery afternoon on the couch

with Mom and Dad was just what I needed

The toy from Mema 

and balloons and cookies from Aunt Mandy

didn't hurt either

Look!

Dr. Jason does good work.

My modeling career is back on track.