Drea, 
Hugs to you and the boys!
Jen, the Buckeye ball player is actually a small Mr. Potato Head! I couldn't resist buying him when I saw him this past fall. As for the buckeye in the center that you thought looked like a ball, it's a craft pumpkin painted like a buckeye! I think they're both too cute!
Speaking of the Bucks, I'm so sad they lost the title again this year.

Still lots to be proud of though.

I hate to admit it, but I did predict LSU would win. So my friend said "let's bet on it then." Mind you he doesn't care about football in the least. He suggested the reward be an expensive dinner at at nice place out on the town. So I do have some great food in my future! Although I was hoping *I* would be paying for that because *I* lost the bet!!
It's after 5:00 am, so what the heck am I doing on the DIS??? Well I woke up Monday morning with a sore throat. Last night I was all ready for the game, and very suddenly, it hit me that I thought I had a fever. Yep. It was 98.7 vs. my normal body temp of 96.4. Just as quickly, I was SOOOO tired. Can you believe that I didn't even make it through the first quarter of the football game before I had to give-in and head off to bed?!! So before 9:00, I was in bed...*completely* unexpected. Thank goodness I didn't have a house full of friends over for the game.
I wanted to at least get back up during 3rd quarter, but I woke up on my own at halftime with a temp of 99.8. I managed to stay up until the game was over and headed back to bed at 12:15. I woke up again at 2:30 with a knife-piercing sore throat and either sweats or chills. 3:30....4:30...I finally just got up and took some Tylenol and made some ginger tea with fresh lemon and honey. I guess a call to the doctor's office in a few hours is in my future to validate I have strep throat and get some antibotics. UGH.
These near record high temps of 66 from yesterday and the prediction for the same again today isn't helping anyone, either, after the 12 degrees we were seeing last week. So I expect many will be getting colds here, too. I couldn't believe that I was out after sunset last night with no coat and my sunroof open. UNBELIEVABLE! It's the first part of January!! Anyone else seeing crazy temps?
Well I'm going to try and lay down for an hour before getting up for the day. Have a good day everyone!