Monday, October 31, 2011

Carter's class Halloween party

This morning, Carter has his school party. He even got to wear his costume so he was really excited! All the boys and girls looked so cute.
Isaiah was pretty happy because his Omaw was there holding him the whole time :)
Olivia was hillarious during the party. She followed one of the dad's around who was passing out marshmallows and she was conning him into giving her some....which he did.....twice! The class played games with candy as prizes and she was pretty whiny until she got her own pack of skittles. Sounds like she's a junk food junky....like someone else I know (ME!) 

Carter was working hard on his marshmallow ghost craft.
After his party, mom, Isaiah, Olivia and I went to Panera Bread for breakfast. I had never had their breakfast before and it was delicious! Maybe it'll be my new vice.

More Halloween pictures to come later this week. Hope you all had a great Halloween!

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Simply gorgeous

Is this not the most gorgeous set of curly blonde hair you've ever seen? Again, I know I'm a bit (okay, a LOT) biased! I love our daugther's hair. It's a mess to comb through but it is absolutely beautiful and gets her a lot of attention. I hope when she's older, she'll love her unique hair!

Friday, October 28, 2011

The.Cutest.Face.Ever

Okay, so I'm a little biased!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Fall decorations and snow!

Yesterday, we got several inches of snow! The first official snow was October 8th but it was really more of a dusting. Yesterday, the snow came and only this afternoon has it started to melt. 

I am starting to love the fall more and more now that I actually get to experience all four seasons.
The cold snowy weather makes me want to light the fireplace, curl under the blanket and drink a glass of hot chocolate while reading my current library book :)
I also love decorating our house for fall. There aren't really any "summer" decorations I like. I'm not into the whole beach/nautical/tropical theme. And I can't think of any other summer decor themes. So when fall rolls around, I like to spruce up our home with little touches here and there.

I love my Hobby Lobby apothecary jars! I wish I could find cuter ways to fill them up. The one in the kitchen is so large that to fill it up with any kind of candy would require I'm sure no less than 15 bags!
This year, the garland that I normally hang outside had to be relocated inside. It's just way too windy and no amount of thumb tacks, duct tape, you name it would hold those suckers up outside! So this is where I put it instead:
And look who's all bundled up and ready for the snow?

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Geaux Tigers!

Beat Auburn!!!!!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Spotlight on Olivia

This blue-eyed blonde-haired daughter of ours is growing and changing everyday. Her vocabulary has just exploded and now like her older brother, she talks NONSTOP!! She is saying all kinds of sentences and definitely speaks her mind. If she wants me to do something and I'm feeding Isaiah, she'll say "Baby, all gone, no more, move!" It cracks me up how assertive she is.
With all of this assertiveness comes many battles of the will. Honestly, I'm not sure who's winning at this point. She is a handful most of the time and when she's uhappy, she's REALLY unhappy, yelling, all snot-faced, throwing things, you name it. She is Miss Independent.
When I tell her she can't have something, she'll say in her sweetest little souther belle voice "Uh huh, momma, mine" and then give me a smile that almost makes me want to cave into her. When she's happy, she's soooo happy. She loves to listen to music, dance around the house, play with her brothers.
She's starting to recognize some letters (O, I, B, E) and can say the alphabet repeating after me. She knows some colors (blue "boo", yellow "hello", red "wed", green "deem") She does the cutest things sometimes. If a toy isn't working she'll say "daddy batees" (aka daddy batteries) because she knows daddy is the replaces of all batteries :) She loves going around saying my momma, my daddy, my bubba, and is now finally saying Isaiah, which sounds like I-day-ya. She LOVES the veggietales and often asks for more bob, larry and junior.

Our favorite thing to do these days, is crank up the music and dance to the song "Hold Me" by Jamie Grace. She is happiest when I'm swinging her around the living room. She loves to praise Jesus! So glad for that :) We love this precious girl of ours, tantrums and all. I know she'll be a strong-willed woman and I hope she'll use it for the glory of God....someday!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Third Annual Trip to the Happy Apple Farm

This morning, we drove South to Penrose and had our annual family pumpkin picking day. I wasn't sure it was actually going to happen because as we were stopped to get gas, a man came up to Theo and told him there was something leaking out of the bottom of the car and we're pretty sure it was gas. So we had to change our plans up but we made it out there.

This place is one of my favorite things about fall. It's so much fun and the kids (and the adults too!) love it. I'm glad we've gotten to make this an annual tradition.

Once again, Omaw provided the youngest two with adorable fall outfits! Thanks mom, everyone at the pumpkin patch was commenting on how cute Olivia's dress was :)

We didn't do any berry picking this year but we did find a lot of good pumpkins.


Including these three adorable little pumpkins


Annual tractor ride


Isaiah was happy with his debut trip to the pumpkin patch

Do you notice a pattern here? We can't get those fingers out of his mouth :)
One of my favorite pictures from the day

Family photos
(2010)

Happy Fall Y'all!