Happy Thanksgiving folks! (And Happy Birthday to my Mom!!)

Gobble gobble!
Enjoy!!

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Hi dudes!!!

Another week closer to the end of the year..crazy!!!!! Well it's Dan's birthday week, he'll turn the big 3-4 on Wednesday! We've made plans to camp for two days at Desoto state park during Thanksgiving- let's hope the weather cooperates!! Yeah!! We'll hike into our campsite about a mile away from the trailhead.  Our campsite has a shelter that was recently built so it'll be a fun little homebase for a couple days!

Dan's already gotten some early birthday presents.. I got him a fly rod and we plan on making use of her during the trip!

We took out our rods for a test drive this past weekend.  We checked out Lake Payne state park on a quiet, overcast Saturday afternoon. We went for a short nature walk that tuckered Hannah out, then we spent a couple of hours casting off of the beach.  Dan's a natural, and though we didn't get any nibbles it was good casting practice along an empty shoreline.  After an hour or so Hannah finally laid down next to us after accepting the fly rods weren't out to get her. Prior to that acceptance she just ran to the car and sat....sigh

Other than that, we've had a low key week. I've been tutoring some undergrads in biology which has been fun (DNA refreshers yikes!!), and Dan's been working super hard on his samples in the lab and is on track to get a bulk of his samples done by February me thinks! 

Anyhow, enjoy some pics of our outing!

It's November!!!

Well Hot Dog!! It's Thanksgiving month already!!  Most of October flew by in a haze...

1) Dan's sister Caroline visited a couple of weeks ago.  We had a blast visiting Birmingham breweries (Good People, Cahaba, and Avondale), feasting on Alabama vittles (Cypress Inn, Rojo, Saw's Soul Kitchen, Jim n' Nick's, and The Alcove), and got to show off what an Alabama game day looks like vs the Tennessee Volunteers (which always begs for this video).  Super fantastic!

2) Dan and I (and Hannah) went to Tannehill State Park last week and went for a nice hike amongst some great Fall colors...It's a pretty neat state park, with Civil War history and some neat streams.  We had a blast hiking since it's been a while, and it whetted our appetite for more outdoor activities.  We're currently planning a camping trip to DeSoto State Park in NE Alabama during Thanksgiving!!  Yeah!

3) Guy Fawkes Day was last night, we went over the Benstead's to celebrate with a customary bonfire, and a not-so customary batch of pozole.  Mmmm...it was delicious.  It's a great kickoff to the weekend which is the big Alabama - LSU game tonight!!! ESPN's game day taped by the stadium this morning so everyone's been a buzz all week about that.  The game is at 7pm tonight and we'll be watching at a friends house.  In fact, today is Practice Thanksgiving, so we get to have turkey with all the fixin's while watching some football - yeeeeee-haaaawww ya'll!!!!

Here are pics from the last few weeks!

more soon (hopefully!!)
xo