Bowlin Beige

Grandma and Grandaddy Williams came to visit for Thanksgiving this year! We had some great time together at the house. Grandaddy took the kids to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for one afternoon and they had a great time experiencing the museum. We also went and picked out our Christmas tree and decorated it - probably the earliest we've ever gotten it up!  Next stop - hunting camp! There's my cute little turkey in the costume he made at school. And here he was singing in the Thanksgiving Program at school.  Daddy has already started growing his beard for hunting camp. Nightly storytime with Grandma  Three happy dogs - luckily Dixie and Blue didn't annoy Charlie too much! They had a great time coloring the Thanksgiving tablecloth.  We picked a good tree! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

If you ever have the odd opportunity to come visit our closets, you will find an awful lot of purple. Purple shirts.  Purple ties. Purple scarves. Purple boots. Purple dresses. Purple jewelry. Purple jackets. Lots and lots of purple. What better way to show off our love of purple than to get family photos taken, wearing purple in the place where we love to wear purple the most. Now that's a tongue-twister!  Luckily our friends got us hooked up with a wonderful photographer - http://www.denisefeagansphotography.com/ and she happened to be in Harrisonburg over Homecoming weekend.  Enjoy!   Keep in mind she had bronchitis during this photo shoot... hence the lack of smiles. Happy Homecoming!

Well, let's be honest here. I wasn't entirely sure this weekend was going to happen. On Wednesday Ainsley came home with bronchitis so things were not looking good. But luckily she had some meds and pulled herself together (for the most part - she was on steroids so we had some anger issues to deal with...)  But it turned out to be an awesome weekend in Harrisonburg with friends and fellow alums.  We drove up Thursday after work. The students open up Greek Row for trick-or-treating, so tons of families showed up on campus. The kids were excited to wear their costumes and get candy from the sororities and fraternities.  We had some family pictures taken afterwards - you might see a few of them in our Christmas cards next month! We had an early night since Ainsley was still recovering, and we pared down our Friday plans so she could continue to rest and take it easy. Eric played in an alumni golf tournament, while the kids and I wandered around town and found s