Mysterious Mustaches

On Thursday night, Valerie's last soccer game (at night under the lights)ended in a 1-1 tie. It was such an exciting game with Valerie playing goalie for part of it and having some amazing saves. You should see her- a 36 lb firecracker, charging girls more than twice her size, absolutely fearlessly. She loves it too. This game was great, as were others this season- all of the girls on her team played their hearts out.

When we got home, there were four mysterious envelopes in our mailbox full of mustaches!!!! I can't tell you the fun that we had! But maybe you can see it from some of these pictures. I have some more pictures of Olivia, where she put the mustache on her chin, forehead etc, before getting it in the right spot. Very very fun. I suspect I know who the lovely sender of these mustaches is, but will need to confirm :)

















Over the weekend, Valerie's girl scout troop had a Thanksgiving dinner. We all went and it was really neat- over 100 people there and each family brought something different. There were enough desserts for each person to have about 10 each, and I think each person there pretty much did eat 10 each- the desserts were almost totally gone by the end!

I took Julia to a ninja turtle karate birthday party of a classmates and she had a blast. She had been looking forward to the party for WEEKS.

On Saturday we took a trip to Fort Jackson and first played on the playground. Olivia went down this huge slide and it was like a tidal wave when she hit the water at the bottom. Hence, the pink army pjs we had to get her before going to do our grocery shopping. At the commissary it was so crowded that we literally had to wait in line as we walked down each isle. The kiddos were very good through all of this though. Steve went to the auto center on the base while we were shopping, where he can put the van on a lift to change the oil easily.



We are all ready for Thanksgiving- the turkey is thawing in the fridge. The kiddos helped me plan the meal on our drive home on Friday. They all agreed on brownies for dessert (although we'll make pumpkin pie too). And they all insisted on mashed potatoes. Ethan wants fish (tuna) b/c he said that the Indian's taught the Pilgrims to fish and that was what they had at the first thanksgiving. Valerie strongly suggested baked beans. I might be able to work in the baked beans, but the fish might need to be bumped to Friday's menu.