Time with Nana and Papa

It has become tradition to meet with Jeff's family the Sunday after Thanksgiving. We like to eat at Cock of the Walk (hence the humongous chair picture) and go to Opryland Hotel to look at the lights. It was especially memorable this year because of the flood. In May the hotel had water throughout the bottom level and we all wondered if there would be Christmas at Opryland.

Above is Uncle Jeremy, the kids, Nana and Papa
Below is our attempt at a family picture. Not only with kids that don't always cooperate, but also with a brother-in-law who doesn't know how to look through a camera the old fashioned way anymore:)

The kids were dancing underneath a gazebo in the Delta

checking out the water fountains that "jump" from spot to spot

Outside at the Nativity

and the BIG poinsettia tree of lights

This pic is to prove we made a WHOLE LOT OF FUDGE after Thanksgiving. We went on up to Mom & Dad's for a couple days and they helped us make 6 batches of fudge to hand out to our friends for Christmas.

The first delivery was to our friends the Denny's who now live in Lexington. Since we were kinda near by we drove over for a visit:) I had seen Jenni on several occasions when she has come back to Nashville, but the kids had not seen each other for almost a year. And I hadn't seen the boys (including Phillip) either. Another bonus was that some other friends would be driving through at the same time. So below is a picture of Jenni and Christian lovin on Miss Merritt. Such a cutie

Of course the boys had a light saber duel

Old friends together again...Baylor, Jake, Christian and Evan
Always good to get back together

Thanksgiving 2010

We had Thanksgiving at my aunts house. Mam-ma and Pap-pa were there of course. It was so good to see and spend time with them. Pap-pa had not been feeling well for a few weeks before so it was a gift to have him feeling better on this day.

lots of yummy food

I put in the above picture only to show Baylor's budding photography skills and below you can see what Christian made a bee line for post food...a book of course

Baylor LOVES her KayKay

Christian reading his "I am thankful" story to Mam-ma

Later on he tells me he wants two things for dessert. I told him this was a special kind of day that he could have both...then in he walks with three big pieces of fudge and a cookie!!! He was NOT allowed to eat all that, I promise.

a few random things

We tried out sponge rollers...she was so cute reading with her daddy before bed

This is Ruby and Baylor at the park. I thought it was sweet

Christian's school had a special WALK TO SCHOOL event. We walked one mile from the old school to the new one courtesy of some sidewalks we had installed from the Safe to School Initiative in our state. Daddy went in late to work so he could walk with us and Baylor didn't complain once about the distance b/c she was so enamored with watching all the big kids

Halloween 2010

The Friday before Baylor's class had a party. Everyone came dressed up-there were football payers, princess', a nurse, a policeman, a skeleton, a rock star and a butterfly. Mrs. Anna was a very cute box of crayons

I copied these two off Facebook and they won't get bigger, but these girls are cuties no matter what size the picture

The whole class made masks

and ate some yummy treats

The official day was on a Sunday this year, so that made things a little hectic. After church, lunch and a little rest time we had to get back over to church for Trunk-r-Treat. This is always a fun time with our church family. Many are spread out over Nashville and would not normally see each other in the neighborhood on this night.

Bobo Fett was checking on his jet pack. You never know when you might have to run off for a good bounty

Baylor made an adorable Sleeping Beauty. We curled her hair to "glam" up her look a bit

Levi can't wait to grow up and look as cool as his daddy (thinks he) is

Who are these masked men...

Christian and Luke of course

Our cute monkey was a little warm in his costume, but he survived long enough to get some loot

Bobo Fett and Caitlyn (Princess Leia)

Thought this was cute of the girls. Are they planning an attack on the boys or just deciding which row of cars has the better candy?

My little princess and her Queen

The sun is always an issue at Trunk-r-Treat...
Amy and Becca were troopers to still pose with me

Is Paige not the cutest little rag doll?!?!

JB and me (I know that is not proper grammar, but it sounds cuter)

The best part about this get up is that she is actually a police officer so she would normally be after the bad guys. Her dog was a bag of money

James the fireman

Baylor, Avery (Belle) and Macy (a black cat)

Jay (Darth Vader) and Xander (Iron Man) were on B's soccer team...Jay looks like something is pretty funny

Sweet Kamry

Mrs. Becca aka Pinkalicious giving Baylor some candy

is this a cute little golfer or what? We love our Stuart:)

We went home and got ready to trick or treat around the neighborhood. We had dinner over at the Gilreath's with Patricia, Jay and Garren. We are so glad we have become friends and get to see them b/c we all have fun.
Below you will see Cruella, a Queen and Snow White

AND Jack Sparrow, a Jedi and a vampire

The kids were all dressed and ready to hit the streets

Harry Potter and Hedgwig

So excited to go

Ready to roll out

I opted out of lugging the camera in the dark b/c we all know the pictures wouldn't look that great anyway. We had so much fun and tried not to make it to late of a night since we did have to wake up for school the next morning.