O Christmas Tree!

I love, love, love having a Christmas tree up in my living room...if it were up to me it would be lit up 24/7, and we'd go broke from our electric bill. I never feel like it has enough lights though....

Our tree leans toward the whimsical side...a favorite with the kids. I have vivid memories of our family tree growing up and especially my grandma Whitten's tree (the most glorious Christmas tree a child could imagine. 2 words: Bubble Lights!) I have ornaments on my tree that were on her tree and our family tree. I cherish them! I hope my kids grow up loving our tree and remember it always!

Pokeno!

Courtney and I hosted our first, monthly girls' Pokeno night! We had a blast with the fun and easy game...add in some yummy hors' devours and a peach bellini and, well, you get the picture! I'm looking forward to our January Pokeno night!

Family Visit.

We are enjoying a much needed and much anticipated visit from my mom, sister and nephew from Missouri. It's really fun becuase J gets to play with a boy his age! J and E are having a great time so far. Today we went to a McDonald's Playland and the boys had a ball....

I swear, a moment earlier they were smiling and laughing...

Em enjoyed some tasty fries.

Afer McD's we went over to Whole Foods where the boys rode in the car-t. They were going crazy and getting LOUD in the store! Boys...

Here's a little bonus pic..we volunteered/attended a fundraiser this week where Adam Vinateri of the Colts was the speaker. I'm not one to run up and ask for a picture so I just took one from my seat. It just so happened that our friend Adam Haffner was in the pic...it's a good pic of Adam.

Here's a little video that proves our little girl is growing up. She's been confidently walking now for a couple of weeks. Just growing up too fast...

We found out that she's a fan of powdered donuts...who isn't???

Mmmm...yummy.

Halloween 2008

This was a very busy, but very fun Halloween. First, the weather here was awesome! It was a beautiful warm and sunny day (Thank You, Lord!) you couldn't have asked for a better fall day for some Halloween fun!

First, we started the day off at a Halloween Costume Playdate, and I hope this is a new tradition because it was really fun! A great way to get A LOT of kids together in their costumes to have a blast! We played outside, had story time, held a costume parade, did crafts and ate a great lunch with friends and family.

Our good friend, Beth, holding the sweetest little clown!

Not a whole lot of smiley pics from little clown baby, but I'm glad she kept her wig on for a few pics.

She really loved sitting in the leaves.


One of J's best buds came with us to the shindig. Superhero buds!!

After a ton of fun at the playdate we headed home and put Em down for much needed nap. Then we carved our pumpkins. J didn't like getting all messy, so I did most of the work while he played with a near by lady bug.

Before the carving...

During....

He had to stick his hand in at least once for the photo op...yukky.

The "after" shot. We did a Happy Jack and a kitty cat. Lit up at dusk...spooky. Trick or Treat!!
The moon looked like the Chesire Cat's smile.

J and E opening their goody bags from Gam and Papaw.
Yummy crunchies...Em's favorite.

We ended the day at another Halloween Party.

There was a lot of dancing going on and J can really cut a rug. Check out this video of his killer moves!

October was a really fun month...let's see what kind of fun November holds. We're looking forward to Thanksgiving and a visit from Grampa Sonny and Nanny and then....the Christmas Tree!!!

I have this thing about not having professional pictures taken of our kids (unless someone else is paying, of course.) Too expensive. I have a decent camera so I subject my children to photo shoots from time to time. I took advantage of what may have been the last "warm" day of the season, made the kids kick of their socks and shoes and took some shots in Gam and Papaw's, sunny green back yard. The only thing I can't decide is color? or black and white?

Fall is my time of year.

I took the kids to a nearby park with our pumpkins and took some fall pics. Unfortunately, my camera battery died before I wanted to be done, but the kids didn't really care about taking pics anyway.



I know the beautiful weather won't last much longer. We just want to take advantage of it while it lasts!