Thanksgiving celebrations begin...

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that everyone had a wonderful day!

We began our Thanksgiving celebrations on Wednesday night at Graffitis. We had a great time in the party room (thank goodness we had the room with all of the kids) and enjoyed great food and company. The children did a little performing for all of us! It was lots of fun!

Today we went out to Big Daddy and Yaya's house for an absolutely amazing meal...I am still stuffed. We all had a great time, but I think that the kids had the most fun of all. After eating great food and sampling a half dozen desserts, it was time to go out and play. We changed clothes and headed outside for four wheeling, golf cart riding, gator riding and all sorts of other activities. Anna's favorite activity was "going mudding, dude" in the gator with Aunt Erika. Henry loved steering the golf cart and petting the horses. He just loves animals and was hugging Shadow.

We had a great Thanksgiving, and we are so thankful for all of our friends and family! We are really blessed!

Daddy volunteers at school

Daddy volunteered at Anna's school on Tuesday doing a messy clay project. Anna's school is trying to get the Dads more involved and a friend asked him to come. He had a great time working with all of the kids. Of course, he knew the majority of the children's parents! Anna enjoyed it even more!!! It was quite an exciting day, because on top of Daddy being at school they had a Thanksgiving celebration and dressed up like Native Americans. Anna loved being an Indian princess with her vest, headress and necklace. She has been wearing them around the house.

Thank you Aunt Alexee

Aunt Alexee came to visit this past weekend! We loved seeing her, and we hope to see her again soon. She brought Anna and Henry their Christmas gifts, and they love them. Anna is riding her scooter everyday, and Henry loves scooting around his new truck. Thank you Alexee!! We love you :)

Enjoying the fall weather

We have had a great week enjoying the gorgeous weather outside! We have been to the park a few times, and we went to the zoo with our friends, Lara, Carol Anne, Emily and Cait. It was so much fun! Henry is really getting fast at walking and he loves following the big kids!

We also played in the leaves in our front yard. Anna's favorite activity was jumping in the piles before they were gone. Henry wasn't so sure of them.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Yesterday was Chad's birthday! We had a great day! Anna was waiting on Chad to come home all day for his "party"! She set the table all by herself with plates, napkins and forks. We went out for a great dinner and then we came home to celebrate with cake. I had ordered the cake over the phone, and I guess that even though I repeated the words 3 times they didn't get the wording right. (Maybe it was the children going wild in the background, who knows...) It gave all of us a great laugh! So Happy Birthday DANNY! oops, I mean DADDY... We love you so much!

Road trip to Memphis!

We went to Memphis today to visit Aunt Erika, Uncle Scott, Charlie and Mac. It was so much fun! We had awesome barbeque and went to the Memphis Zoo. It was such an incredible zoo. Some of our favorite animals were the giraffes, polar bears, panda bears and monkeys. The exhibits were just amazing! We also ran into one of Anna's friends, Mary Love, there. Anna and Henry had a great time with their cousins! We can't wait to go back.

The panda bear exhibit was incredible...Chad and I felt like we were back in China. There are two pandas named Ya Ya and Le Le.


Anna climbing like a monkey!


All the kids! Check out Mac's face...he doesn't look to happy that he was sharing an icecream!




Anna and her friend Mary Love

The Northwest passage exhibit was amazing as well. You could watch the polar bears above and below water. There were also bald eagles and sea lions.

Anna and Mac checking out the new baby giraffe born in October.