We went to Motley’s Christmas Tree Farm and cut our own tree.  I felt like such a Griswold.

Our Thanksgiving tradition:  burn stuff.

Garrett also likes eating  stuff.

Peyton thought it was cold on Thanksgiving day.

Garrett says that he and God made this vine.  He had been swinging on it all summer after he ripped the roots out of the ground.  Thanksgiving morning he went up he hill to swing on it.  I was walking through the cabin towards the glass doors just as he swung out so I could see how, just as he was reaching the peak of his swing, the vine broke into three big pieces.  Luckily, Garrett fell into a pile of leaves.  When I got out there, he said he had broken his leg.  Of course, that was a bit of an exaggeration.  Lindsay asked Caleb if he had helped Garrett when he fell.  Caleb’s response:  “No, he fell all on his own.”

We camped out at South Maumee on the Buffalo National River.  The campground was well-maintained for being so far off the beaten path (11 miles down a dirt road after you turn off Highway 27).

I took Garrett to the Arkansas-Mississippi State game on Saturday. He really liked watching the game. He was really impressed that Arkansas had a player named Peyton (FB Peyton Hillis).

Take a look at the photos at http://www.conrady.org/photos

We have been camping a few times this fall. This time we were close to town, and the campground had a playground. Garrett really likes swinging upside-down.

Garrett caught this big, bad bass all on his own. I just can’t tell you where he caught it. That’s top-secret information.