I cant believe it's almost christmas already! We have had 1 busy month here! First i was fortunate enough to book 4 weddings this month! (and the last one was december 13th!) So i was very busy gearing up for those and getting them all done. One of them had 12 bridesmaids! That was a very busy day!

Jack has had lots of holiday "functions" as well. He has been very busy at school with planning his christmas party (which was this past thursday) and then the christmas show (which was friday). We also had his christmas party with our play group (i say our because it's as much for me as it is for him!) which was wednesday.

Baby Gabe is getting BIG! On Friday hey rolled over from back to tummy and was quite pleased with himself! He is now smiling all the time and loves it when anyone makes happy goofy faces at him. Greg can even get in in rolling laughter! Its very fun!
Gabe was also the Baby Jesus this december in the youth groups live nativity at our church. He might have been the biggest baby jesus ever!

Greg has also stayed pretty busy this month with work. Lucky for us, it's still nice here (the temps were in the 70s last week - though thats not very common).

Tomorrow morning we're making the drive to Indiana to spend christmas there. Pray for safe and HAPPY travels!

We hope everyone has a wonderful week leading up to christmas!!!!

Here's some photos for you!

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Ours was quiet and uneventful which with a newborn and 2 year old in the house, is just like we like it! Greg did all of the cooking which of course was fabulous! I made a pumpkin pie which is completely gone today. It was a beautiful day outside. Greg took Jack out on the golf cart for a bit even! And other than that, we vegged around the house. Here are some pics i took during the day...





On tuesday of this week Jack had his "Feast" at school. His class was in charge of making the trailmix. They also had pizza, cookies, fruit and other goodies. Jack was so excited about it! Each class came dressed up. The 2 year old class were turkeys.
Here are some other pictures from the day including 2 videos... one they were singing the blessing. Jack at least using his praying hands... but he was too busy chewing up the fruit he already ate to sing!








and over the weekend Jack's friend Lauren (she's in the preschool shots as well) had a birthday party. To ME it was chilly, but the kids had a good time. :)




and just for fun, a video of gabe...

New Photos

I'm a slacker, i'll admit it. I have some new photos to post and Gabe had his 8 week check up so i have some stats for you!

First we had a visit from Auntie Muff (my dad's sister). She was visiting her daughter and family down in Georgia and passes right by on her way home. So we met her at chic fil a for lunch. Of course she came bearing gifts for the boys (which she totally didnt have to!) Jack LOVES his dinosaur and has even slept with it! Jack didnt stand still long enough at Chic-fil-a to get a picture with Muff. He was off to play in the jungle gym.

Jack still loves to hold his baby brother. He likes him to watch cartoons with him. I'm not sure Gabe is always so thrilled, but he does spend an awful lot of time looking at Jack trying to figure out what he's doing!

And Gabe had his 8 week check up a week ago (i know i should have posted this then!)
He was 14 lbs and 12 oz! Isnt that crazy! It's the 98% for weight but he's also 25 inches tall which is 97% for height so all around, he's just a big boy! My linebacker!

And in honor of my little linebacker... i took this photo of him this morning (at my mom's request, she said she needed a new photo) in his colts sleeper that my dad (of course) bought him! I love the picture because he's smiling! He's starting to babble quite a bit and will sometimes smile back at you if you smile at him. Other times he just looks at you like you're an idiot. :) like here....
haha.

And not to leave Jack out of the post! Yesterday at school they had their gingerbread man party. This month they have been studying the Gingerbread Man story (they do a different story each month). Jack likes to run around yelling "run run as fast as you can, you cant catch me i'm the gingerbread man!" Its very funny, until he runs into something.

Here's a picture of jack putting his part of the story on the board. The kids seemed pretty good at knowing their part of the story so this must have rehearsed for the mommies!

Tomorrow we have jack's little girlfriends birthday party. I'll be sure to take pictures and hopefully not take weeks to post them! :)

Happy Halloween!

It has been a CRAZY busy week this week!

Last Friday was the Fall Festival at Jack's preschool. It was super cute. Lots of little games to play that they had to pay 1 ticket each time. But no matter what, they got to get a little treat. For some reason jack never went for the candy. Only the random little plastic toys that are now all over my house for my poor feet to step on!

here's jack playing the bean bag toss. He was sure to get a bean bag in each hole every time he played!

The Octopus Ring Toss

Hard to tell, but he's supposed to look like he's the witch in the picture. He kept going back wanting to take the picture but never never really smiled. But i promise, he wanted to do it!

This is Ms Laurie painting Jack's face. She is one of Jack's teachers in his room.

Then just lots of running around the beginning of the week trying to get stuff done. Wednesday i had a bridal portrait so both the boys went over to my friend Jenn's. Man do i have some good friends! Jenn ALWAYS comes thru and helps me out in a pinch. I think i owe her a few hundred baby sitting duties!

Thursday was jack's halloween party at school. He was excited to put the costume on, but by the time i got there for the party, the dino was no where to be seen. Apparently he told the teachers he was done and took it off himself. Oh well. It is a pretty warm costume so maybe he was just hot. I had gabe dressed in this super cute onesie with a ghost looking face on it. hehe.

we were trying to get jack's attention to be in the picture too. But he was on a pretty big sugar high and there was too much going on!

see all that candy in his mouth and none on his plate??


Then of course today is HALLOWEEN! We had a halloween party this morning with out playgroup. The mom hosting the party does it every year and she always outdoes the year before!

Jack at Gabe when we got to the party

Gabe sleeping

Jack playing at the party

Gabe is actually awake!

Tonight greg is visiting some buds in Atlanta so the boys and I flew solo for the trick or treating. I think we did pretty well! Gabe was in the sling and my friend Lisa came over with her 2 kiddos. Her son Life is about a year older than Jack so they had a blast running from house to house. Jack doesnt have the full out boy run just yet, especially not in a big costume. So he kind of bopped along and as he did his little booty and tail would wiggle around. It was so hilarious! And now that we are back home jack has a bucketful of candy that i'm trying to slowly hide. He doesnt seem to remember that Mama said 1 piece when he got home and thats it! Now it's 11 and he's still wide awake and raring to go! His early evening nap isnt helping and that coupled with the sugar buzz probably means i'm not going to get to go to bed anytime soon!

We continue our busy-ness into the weekend. once i get some more photos from the parties and what not i'll post them!

Hope everyone had a safe and happy halloween!!!

Happy Birthday MOM!

Today is my mom's bday! Just wanting to give her a shout out!

A visit from Aunt MeMe

I meant to make a post before my sister, Michelle, came into town. But it didnt happen. Big surprise. haha.

Aunt MeMe got here at noon this past thursday. Her visit was so much fun! After Gabe and I picked her up from the airport, we got some lunch and then went to pick up Jack from school. She got to meet his teacher, see his classroom, and all that jazz. He was SUPER excited to see Aunt MeMe and kinda brushed right past me. haha. Ok, well i did get my GLAD TO SEE YA MAMA hug. :)

The rest of the day on thursday was just spent playing around the house and outside. It was a beautiful day so we took full advantage. While outside we discovered a praying mantis that was pretty much "just like a cricket" to Jack. Jack was very interested. The Meemster suggested putting it in a bowl so Jack could hold it. But when he did that he poked his little front leg thingys out and touched Jack on the hand and he was definitely not too sure about that! From then on he had to just sit on the table. haha. But he did call Gramma and Bopi to tell them all about it.


Friday we ran some errands, mainly to target. And in true Aunt fashion, she spoiled her nephews terribly. First jack picked out 2 toys from the dollar section. A plane (that he still wont put down) and a fire truck. THEN he got to pick out a movie. he chose Robots. Thank goodness it's a cute movie for adults to watch too! And THHEEEEEEEN they got cookie dough, frosting and sprinkles!
And then of course the rest of the day was one of hopped up on sugar and bouncing around the house only slightly sitting still long enough to watch maybe a scene of the movie before it was off to more bouncing. But I cant complain, Aunt MeMe made super yummy dinner, did all the dishes, and helped with some laundry!


And here's the way Gabe looked most of the day...
Ok, so he wasnt naked the whole day. haha.


Now off to Saturday... a day filled with more sugar and fun! haha.
We went to Chuck E Cheese (Meems suggestion of course!) But we LOVE Chuck E Cheese so i was more than happy to go. For some reason Jack kept wanting to play this game with guns. I dont know where he ever could have learned the concept of gun video games (AHEM... GREG!)

Anyway, the day was lots of fun and in the end Jack decided to use all of the tickets he won to get... yep... sugar! Cotton Candy to be exact. Luckily he fell asleep on the way home so i was able to hide most of it! Actually, both of the boys conked out for a bit. And i snapped this super sweet pic of Aunt MeMe and baby gabe!
and this one is just too cute not to put up here! Jack said "Baby Gabe gave me a KISS!"

Sunday was super fun as well. We went to Niven's Apple Farm! Which was another suggestion of Aunt Meme. Well, she said we should go to a pumpkin patch. And i looked some up online and we decided Niven's would be a fun one. It was! We got there about 30 minutes before it even opened (woops) but no biggie. They had all kinds of stuff to do there! I think this will be the place we go to every year. Now instead of trying to place all of the photos within this paragraph, let me just explain all we did and then post the montage of photos! First there were these inner tubes with 4 very tall pvc pipes inside them. A strange looking contraption but it was for jumping on. Jack LOVED it. I'm thinking Greg should build one in the backyard. He owes me for gettign Jack hooked on "gun" video games! Then there were LOTS of animals to be seen. Jack loved yelling HI CHICKEN! at the pheasants. I dont think they were pleased. There was also a donkey, a pig, a llama, and i'm sure some i'm missing. There were baby chicks inside the barn that he got to see. We skipped the corn maze but we did go on the hay ride. Lots of fun. We bought a bag to pick our own apples. Picking apples is a little tougher than you might think. Finding ones large enough to pick, that are low enough to reach, all while walking around with a toddler and a new born and a diaper bag, camera bag, and purse with only 2 adults. tricky! But we filled up our peck and then had to walk back to the barn since the hay riders dont wait for you. Did i mention the toddler and newborn? With now this huge back of apples, diaper bag, camera bag and purse? Still it was LOADS of fun. Jack loved the apple cider and conned the old man with his cuteness to give him another cup. A very full day. And now for the montage of photos...

Me and my boys...

the jumpy thingy

a big tunnel thing they had hanging from ropes

Jack is 3 feet tall!

no i promise we didnt cage him

Jack having a convo with the donkey

Jack and Aunt MeMe in the TeePee

Aunt MeMe with the fig jam... and only she and i get this joke!

Aunt MeMe and Jack picking apples

Jack getting his own!
and then last but not least capping off the day... aunt meme and gabe!



Monday in comparison to the other ways was pretty dull. We had fun at home, but didnt go anywhere until we sadly had to take Aunt MeMe to the airport. But i must share one last photo because it's my favorite!


It was a super fun trip. Jack has gone to bed by 8 the followin 2 nights. not so lucky tonight though. But it's time to go and put him into bed. Trying to follow a much stricter policy! Wish me luck!