A south paw, like her daddy?

We've noticed for the last few months that Bristol uses her left hand for almost everything.  If she happens to pick up something like a fork, pencil, etc. with her right hand and use it, 99% of the time she will switch it to her left hand after a few seconds.  Is she going to take after her daddy and be a lefty??

Thanksgiving

We had reservations to go over to Preston's (the restaurant over at the Inn at Virginia Tech).  I was really looking forward to their dinner because I've heard how good it is.  Then a family in our ward invited us over to have Thanksgiving with them and we accepted.  He is the institute director here at Tech and they just have their big dinner at the institute building because they feed a few sets of missionaries and they have a really big family.  It was a wonderful day.

First Snow

Woke up to it snowing and it didn't stop.  We got a couple inches or so.  Brenalee was out the door by 7:30am making snowmen!  She was sledding down the road on the boogie board, too.  Her sled broke last year, so she is making do with what she has I guess.  That kid is CRAZY!  I had to go teach my gym class and I told the kids to stay in the house.  I got home and knew they had not listened because there was a new snowman in the yard :)

NAVY Ball

It's time for the NAVY ball!  This could possibly be our last one.  TJ only goes when he's forced to go and I'm not sure the next command will force him to!  We had a good dinner and good chats with our fellow dining partners.  I will miss not being here at Virginia Tech for this next year.

Halloween

It was a wet Halloween this year!  We took the kids over to the "University Mall" for some indoor trick-or-treating.  It's not really a mall, but that's what it's called.  The gym I work at is in this building and all Bristol wanted to do was go into the kid area she goes to every day.  She finally started getting the hang of putting out her hand and getting candy in it.  She thought that was pretty great.  I was surprised she kept her devil horns on!  We went and grabbed some dinner from Macadoo's and then went home.  It was so wet and cold we just stayed in and let Tyler and Brenalee go out by themselves.  They didn't stay out for long.  Due to the weather we didn't have near as many trick-or-treaters as we normally do.  I had way too much leftover candy.  I sent it to work with TJ!

Last Baseball Game

We went out to Dublin for the last baseball game.  I hadn't been to the last few because it was just too late to keep Bristol out.  But, I didn't want to miss this last one.  We dragged everyone out and Bristol was everywhere!  It was fun chasing her :)

Family Pictures

We went out on the Blue Ridge Parkway to get some family photos taken.  I had seen some photos of Mabry Mill and really wanted photos taken there since this is our last fall here.  It was about an hour drive and probably the most beautiful drive I've ever seen.  The trees - oh my word!  They were GORGEOUS!  I can't wait to get our photos back!  It was an adventure trying to get Bristol to cooperate though.  She thew her shoe in the water - our photographer's husband had to go fish it out!  It was soaked and she was barefoot the rest of the shoot.  She's such a hoot!

Family Pictures

I've always wanted to have some family pictures taken in the fall leaves here in VA.   I think we were just a week late in getting the very best from the leaves, but there was not really another time we had to be able to do pictures.  You can see some of the trees in the photos have already lost all their leaves.  Getting Bristol to cooperate was impossible!  I was a little frustrated with that child!  She threw her shoe in the water, so most of the pictures of her are without shoes.  We'll try again in a couple years!