Funday Monday!

We kept my friend Tarah's little boy on Monday. His name is Tage and he is 5 months old. He goes to the same babysitter as Treyson, and our babysitter is in Jamaica all week! (bless her heart). He is just the sweetest, chubbiest thing EVER! Such an easy baby to keep, and NO it did not make me have that "feeling" to have another baby. I do not understand how people have 3 kids at such young ages....it's exhausting!Anniston LOVED having Tage here. She was such a big helper, and I purposely gave her "special helper" jobs so that she felt really big. Treyson....well, I was just proud of him for not trying to wrestle with Tage the way he wrestles with Anniston!I had a sweet little laundry helper yesterday that thought he was really silly when he put sissies panties on his head. Such a little monkey!Have a great week!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated Christmas with Scott and Courtney over Thanksgiving break. They rotate holidays since they live in Houston, and her parents live in Dallas. So, the kids got to open their presents from them as well. Anniston was so excited to get 2 new outfits for her build-a-bear doll that Scott and Courtney took her to make for her birthday. She got a cheerleading outfit and a ballerina outfit. She was pumped!
Treyson got these magnetic building sticks/balls that both of the kids have spent lots of time playing with. Thank you both!

It was really nice to get alot of quality time with them while they were here. We also got to spend alot of time with Todd, Melissa, Taylor, Michael and Connor. Here was our attempt at getting a good group picture!
We hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving! We are now looking forward to the Christmas season. Elfie (our Elf on the Shelf that Santa got us last year) dropped in on Sunday evening and left both of the kids Christmas pajamas to wear! Anniston was so excited, and Elfie has really been keeping her little "moments" at bay!

Church bracelet

Anniston has been wanting to wear this bracelet for the past few days. It is a bracelet that Uncle Todd and Aunt Melissa gave her for her baptism. I have been telling her that I needed to put it up so that Treyson couldn't get it. Smarty pants went and got her stool to reach it on top of the chest of drawers to wear it today. I told her it was only to wear to church. So now, the past 2 mornings, she has asked me if we can go to church so that she can wear her bracelet. (Fortunately she hasn't caught me on the technicality that she attends preschool at her church!! haha)

Here's the beautiful (and now tight) bracelet that is causing the heartache when I tell her to put it away!

Christmas Card Picture session

We were at Lake Ouachita over the weekend, and we decided to take the kids out to the gazebo overlooking the lake (where Jerry proposed to me almost 8 years ago!) to get some fall pictures to use for our Christmas card. I'm not going to post the actual pictures that made the cut for the card, but here's a sneak peek at our beautiful kids!! (I'm a little partial!!)

cupcakes

Guess what we're bringing for Thanksgiving??

AR vs. Miss State

We took the kids to the Arkansas vs. Mississippi State game last weekend in Little Rock. The kids had a blast, and we're definitely planning on taking them back at least 1 time each season. We stayed Friday and Saturday at my parents place on Lake Ouachita. It's so pretty down there this time of year.

Here's a pic of Treyson playing with the man's hat in front of us. These two couples from Benton have sat in front of us for the past 3 seasons. They're so sweet, and when she held out her arms to hold Treyson, he went right to her! That is very un-treysonlike!! He is usually very clingy to his Mommy and Dadoo!

Posing with our tattoos. Actually, now they're stickers. I didn't like them, they peel off easily. Needless to say, we'll go back to Razorback tattoos after we use up all of these stickers.

Feeding Dadoo....what a sweet boy!

Pink cotton candy....the 3 year old's highlight of the day!!

Anniston and Dadoo!

Happy Birthday PaPa!

We celebrated PaPa's birthday 2 weekends ago. First we saw him on his actual birthday at the Razorback tailgate (before the Troy game). We gave him a cake, sang to him, played football with him, and also played hide-and-seek!

On Sunday we met up with Todd, melissa, and their kids, MeMaMa, and MaMa and PaPa at Hardscrabble to eat lunch after church. We were put in the back room so that Michael, Anniston, and Treyson could run wild. And they did. PaPa opened his gifts and we ate ANOTHER birthday cake and also sang Happy Birthday to PaPa.

PaPa, we hope you had a VERY happy birthday. We love you!