November 2012

November was pretty status quo....

except for the part where Alan comes home and says,

"Hey Mom, I wanna try wrestling".

"Sure, OK, hon.....what, wait a minute, 

what did you just say? Wrestling? 

Where'd you come up with that?!? Isn't that where they wear the ear muffs and leotard?!? Really?!?"

"They're not ear muffs, they're called head-gear. 

And it's a singlet, not a leotard!"

"Uh, right, head-gear--isn't that for braces? Singlet--is that really better than leotard?!?" Whatever--it'll keep him physically active after school? Great, let's sign up!! : )

I was completely humbled and had to shut my mouth after picking him up early before practice was over and watching these guys!! I was hot and sweaty and tired after just watching for 5 minutes!!! 

Their workouts were intense!! 

And here's one of my favorite pictures EVER--

wrestling face!!! Awesome!!

Look at that game face--so serious--I love it!!

Here's the outfit! 

And then one day he comes home and says

"Mom, can you cut my hair?"

"Uh, absolutely, son!! I've just been waiting for you to ask!

Don't move, I'll get the clippers right now!!"

Holy cow! OK, who is this young man and what happened to my baby?!?

So then we had some fun playing in the leaves.

Who's that with the wet sucker?

Must have been watching a little Charlie Brown?!?  : )

Cuties!!

Then there's the pumpkin smashing!! Nathan decided to take it on himself this year!

Check out that stick (small log)!

And that swing--from way over the head!! And those poor pumpkins! (Notice how he has no coat on--we had this ridiculous, warm spell--so nice!)

All except for Nathan's special little pumpkin, which was spared! It was hard to say good-bye and leave it outside. But we decided he would like to stay with his friends, so that would be OK. We'll get another one next year! : )

Before signing off, wanted to throw in a few of the pics Alan took on his caving trip with the Scouts....
This is looking outside from one of the caves..

Here's chimney rock, where they climb out of the cave 

 This is looking down into the "valley" where the cave opening is

And that brings us to the end of November.