Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be thankful for and the annual Thanksgiving get together is a nice reminder of that.  Buck and I really enjoy hosting Thanksgiving (even though we work our tails off the days leading up to it!).  It was a beautiful day to share with great family.  We enjoyed yummy food (big thanks to my mother-in-law and others for helping out!!!), good company and of course, football.  This year's turkey was named "Hank" as in "Hanks-Giving."  I stole that from some silly tv show....

 

We introduce kiddos to dominoes at a very early age :)  I love this photo!  We were happy to have Uncle John and Uncle Stephen with us...not world travelers this year!



Grandma with the pool!

This photo makes me laugh....only because it looks like Jason Witten was at our family Thanksgiving.

Pocahontas (aka Grandma) was speedwalking on our way back from the park.  You can barely see the rest of us in her dust...

Brandon (nephew) said we looked like the Desperate Housewives. 

My sweet Grandma joined us this year.  She turned 90 years old this past March.

 We hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  We wish we could spend the day with all of our friends and family!

It's Time to Catch Up...

We have been busy, busy!  Busy with Brock's friends' birthday parties, enjoying the Fall weather and getting the house ready for Thanksgiving.  A few fun facts about our little guy:

It's no secret that we have an active little guy.  He loves to run around and play ball, build with his legos and blocks, read stories with Mommy and Daddy, draw on his Magna Doodle, etc.  He also loves crayons, play doh, stickers, markers, etc (we call it his art box).  One morning we put his chair a little too close to the window and he decided the window and window sill were his canvas.  Oops!!!  Thank goodness it was only crayon. 

And he loves to put on our shoes and walk around the house. 

His favorite words are:  mine, no and yea.  He is not shy when it comes to expressing his opinion either!  Brock loves to point out airplanes and refers to them as "bay-ohs."  We can't figure that translation out and the fact that he calls light switches a "bee."

Today we did a weigh-in.  Brock is 29 pounds and just shy of 3 ft. tall. 

Happy Halloween!!!

Brock dressed up as a garden gnome this year and it was greatness.  The beard was too itchy for his liking, so we marketed him as a freshly-shaved gnome.  We were not sure he would understand the concept of trick-or-treating and boy were we wrong!  We met some of his friends to spend the evening with- Brooke and Noah.  Brooke was a beautiful ladybug, while Noah was the cutest sheriff.  The three of them had a great time going door to door and while they may not have said trick-or-treat each time (that's kind of difficult for a 20 month old to say!), they did say thank you. 

Thank you for my pumpkin bag Ms. Mo!

"Are you guys really going to make me wear this?"

"What are you wearing?"

"I LOVE Trick-or-Treating!"

The cutest garden gnome I have ever seen.

Trick-or Treat!

The Daddies had to take the boys up to this scary house.  Brooke was not interested at all.

Love my little guy

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We had to get a photo of him in his element....a yard ornament!

Good times!

Happy 4 Years!

Well Hubby, thanks for being my partner on this crazy ride....

I just realized I never posted pics from our AWESOME 80's themed bday party in The Big Easy!!!!  Yes, Buck was wearing a mullet wig.....hi-lar-i-ous.  Thanks for keeping it fun babe!

God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
For when I think I’ve lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you

On my own I’m only
Half of what I could be
I can’t do without you
We are stitched together
And what love has tethered
I pray we never undo

**borrowed lyrics from Blake Shelton
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Pumpkin Patch

The Hall Johnson Pumpkin Patch is close to the house and very popular, so we decided to try it out this year.  We had a great time!  They have tons of pumpkins for sale and several things to keep the kiddos busy.

We even went on a hayride that stopped a couple of times to allow us to feed the animals. 

Happy Fall!  (Even though it felt like Summer again today!)

Wake Up!

Meet Rylan!

God didn't give me any blood sisters, but I have some great girl friends that I consider family.  One of those friends is Amy-we have known each other for 18 years (Amy, did you know that?!?)!  Amy and her husband, Kris, welcomed their son Rylan on September 27th.  He is perfect!

Brock and Brooke meet their new BFF

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In other news, Brock actually sat still for a few minutes on the couch to watch the Rangers, loves walking around in Mommy's shoes and snuggling with Gigi.

Watching the Rangers!

Luckily for him, I will not post the one with him in my high heels!  You owe me one kiddo!

He loves his Gigi!