A Different Kind of Thanksgiving

Well, our Thanksgiving was a little different this year. Mom was sick today so she and Daddy didn't get to join us for the meal. Actually we were supposed to eat at their house, so we had to shift gears this morning. Mom had cooked the "big stuff" (the turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, and the yummiest coconut cake you've ever tasted!), so we went and picked up all the food and brought it to Frank's mothers and had to eat without them. I felt so bad that they didn't get to join us, but I guess better safe than sorry. But I do want to thank them for preparing all the yummy food for us to enjoy.

And Conner wasn't with us today either, at least not until later. We had a group from church that went and served at the Salvation Army's Soup Kitchen for Unity in the Community, and he decided he wanted to go with them. I was very proud of him for giving up some of his day to help someone else out. It was definitely something he had never experienced before and I am proud of him.

My First Thanksgiving

I got to eat "real" food today too--

and it was goooood!!

Hope you and your family had

a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I'm 9 months old!!

I just love my sister!!

p.s. These are a sneak preview of our Christmas pictures---they turned out great!! (And that was a big accomplishment working with two kids and a baby!!)

I won something!!

I never win anything!! But I won a $25 Gift Certificate from Arbonne this past weekend. This contest was sponsored through Fun and Frugal a great website that I visit daily. Gloria from Fun and Frugal is having two contests every day until December 12. Some of the contests are sponsored by local vendors, but many of them have websites that you can order from, so be sure to go on over to Fun and Frugal to check out her contests and all the other "frugal" fun from Gloria!!

Just me Hayden

dropping in to say "hi" and "bye" for the weekend! Hope you have a fun one!!

Pinned!

**Link wasn't working for the video earlier....I think I got it fixed. Let me know if you can't view it. Thanks!**

Congratulations Conner on your first match of the season, your first win of the season, and your first pin EVER!!

The score was 13-0, with 6 points added to the team score for his pin. Conner is the one in the black singlet...just in case you can't tell!

Oh, and excuse the shaking of the camera at the end....I got a little excited!!!

A Big

to my Mom for taking care of Hayden and me while we have been under the weather this week!! I love you Mom, you're the best!

Free Coupon Book

Want a free $10 coupon book? Go to Betty Crocker to sign up and receive yours!!

Please excuse

the "Photobucket" box floating around on my blog. I haven't quite got it figured out why it is there. If anyone has any suggestions, please email me!! According to my photobucket account, I have NOT exceeded the bandwidth, so I don't know. Help!!

Playing Catch Up

My "simpler life" has been non-existent for a while now. Wrestling, Play Practice, Dentist Appointments, Doctor Appointments, Relatives Visiting (which by the way, it was great to see you Johnny and Linda!!)...and all the little "extras" that pop up!

Weddings, Halloween and Crawling...all things I have meant to share, but haven't had the time.

So anyway, the kids were in a wedding and looked so beautiful and handsome and did an awesome job being a groomsman and flower girl!! Here are a couple of pictures.



And this is what Hayden did through almost the entire wedding and reception!! And of course Nanny is always happy to hold him!!

On Halloween, we usually go to our local mall and participate in the Fall Festival sponsored by Westwood Baptist, our former church. Conner decided not go with us this year, instead went with our neighbors. Here are a couple of pictures of Mari Cate and Hayden. Mari Cate was a kitty cat and Hayden was a pumpkin. Most of the night he clung to Granddaddy---I think all the people were just a little overwhelming to him!

And in the last week Hayden has started crawling. He still does a funny crawl, but he gets wherever he wants to go and gets there FAST!!

And isn't his little doggy hat just adorable?? But just for the record, he HATES hats!!

Looking for that simpler life!! : )

A New Look...

for Conner! He got his braces on Monday.

BEFORE

AND AFTER

Brotherly Love

This is how I found them after they both got their baths tonight.

Shhhhh....It's A Secret!!

We'll see ya in February 2009 Mickey!

Christmas Photo Cards

Just about every year I do photo Christmas cards. I usually do them myself, simply because it saves money and I am able to do it. But sometime I would love to have one of those fancy places do up our photos on one of their fancy cards. So I am going to enter another contest to see if I can win. So you wanna try to? Check out this post at Simple Mom to see how to enter! Here is some of her work at Chickpea Designs. Pretty cool stuff!!

And by the way, here is last years Christmas photo...I was 8 months pregnant!

Hope you have a wonderful day!!