Santa, smores and more

Visiting Santa in "downtown" Nolensville

Mim and KayKay came over to help the kids put up the trees in their rooms

Don't you LOVE Baylor's pink tree?!?!?

sweet little hands

We had to help Daddy w/ the big tree too

Later that night we had a dance party to Baylor's new favorite song "Party in the USA" (Mim is such a bad influence! J/K),

played outside in the leaves and

made smores!!!

Cute momma w/ her 2 girls

Christian and I LOVE smores

Thanksgiving '09

Christian had a request for chocolate pie and he wanted to help his daddy make it. Here they are the night before thanksgiving hard at work.

We drove up to my aunt and uncles house to have dinner w/ the family and when I'm around the camera is too:)

Above you have Baylor and Mim...below she is with Mam-ma

Christian, Ryan and Mandy at "the kids table". Mim, Baylor, Jeff and I sat there too

the "adult table"...we had more fun at ours:)

Kim showing Uncle Willie her new house and some of Travis' pics from Afghanistan

While other boys were watching football my sweet reader curled up w/ some books

Aunt Judy and Baylor having a little coloring time

We had our annual time out in the Opryland area w/ Nana, Papa and Uncle Jeremy just before thanksgiving. We like to eat at The Cock of the Walk and then go see the christmas lights at the hotel. We were also celebrating our anniversary, Jeremy and my birthdays...just a big old celebration:)

Jeff, Christian, me, Baylor, Nana, Papa and Uncle Jeremy

Christian is really showing an interest in playing piano

and we couldn't leave w/o sending Santa an email

Trick-R-Treat 2009

My little Minnie

and cute Mickey

I had tried to get a good pic of them together...this was the best I got

Garren, Bailey, Cooper, Christian & Baylor

We went next door for a little pizza party before we went out. Our neighbors throw a good party no matter the occasion.

Jeff and our adorable dragon...he had the best roar

the adults had tons of fun too

Trick-R-Treat...we want some candy

Big girls can have sllepovers too

Me and Kiki are at the top and L to R are
Laura, Becca, Amy G, Amy W and Heidi

My LG girls are the best!!! We rented a hotel room in town and just hung out...ate junk food, played silly games, talked about our husbands, kids, etc. You can choose to believe me or not, but we all praised our husbands (boyfriend in Amy G's case). We have all found some really good ones...not that they (or us) are perfect, but they sure are perfect for us!! We were so thankful to have this bonding time and want to do it again!!

Amy W, me and Kiki

Amy G, Becca and me

The hotel room had this L shaped couch that was perfect for us

Here is Baylor and her two favorite coaches after she received her soccer trophy

My sweet boy read scripture...on stage...at church...in front of hundreds of people!!!

I was so impressed that he actually did it. Jeff was doing the family prayer and our worship minister suggested that Christian read the scripture beforehand. Jeff replied with a "I really don't think he'd do that" and figured that was the end of it. He later mentioned the idea to me and I said just ask Christian if he wants to. We received an energetic yes, but we still were not sure he would do it on the day. Jeff practiced with him Saturday evening and he woke up Sunday morning saying "I can't wait to read my bible on stage with Daddy"

Being the proud mommy I thought I had the video camera all set and ready--only to realize it was not charged!!! I tried to borrow a camera and it didn't work so well. We recreated the event on Wednesday for picture/video purposes and I will try and get Jeff to upload that soon.