One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians!

This past Thursday Emma Cate and Chance's classes celebrated Thanksgiving by having a feast. The feasts did take place on the same day, but luckily at different times. I am the room mom for both classes so that is why I have not been doing much blogging! We had a week of making placemats, organizing food, decorating, making indian outfits, pilgrim outfits and last but not least cooking! This year both kids chose to be Indians! The indian name that Chance chose was Chief Lobo and Emma Cate was Princess Love Bunny. They are such unique names! The feast was so much fun and helped us to remember the real reason we celebrate this special holiday.
Brian and I are so very thankful for our teachers and all they do for our children! We are also thankful for our 3 little indians! Happy Thanksgiving!


Chief Lobo

Chief Lobo and his indian friend, Campbell.

Let's gobble til' we wobble!

Feasting fun!

Chance and his buddy Sterrett.

Chance and his Daddy!

Chance and his pilgrim friend, Thomas!

Chief Growling Bear was also at the feast!

Princess Love Bunny

Emma Cate in her classroom.

Giggling girls!

Singing our Thanksgiving songs.

Emma Cate's class is about to dig in!

Blessing the food!

Emma Cate and Daddy!

Gig'em

This weekend Brian and I took the boys down to College Station to visit our sweet babysitter, Jennifer. We had a great time eating out, going to tent sales, looking around campus, tailgating and the Texas A&M and Oklahoma University football game. Chance and Campbell loved getting decked out in Aggie gear. I had brought a brown shirt to wear to the game and very quickly looked around and gave in an bought a maroon shirt for myself! The boys had so much fun spending time with Jennifer! The kids truely have missed her since she has left for college. After all, Ennifer is Campbell's girlfriend! We all had an awesome time and it was an experience that we would not trade!

In case you are wondering...Emma Cate had to stay home for her dance class. We were sad to leave her behind, but she had a fun time with Grammy and Pops getting spoiled rotten!

Welcome Baby Kerrington!

On Thursday, November 6, 2008 our family was blessed with a new baby! Kerrington Paige was born at 3:08 pm at 8 pounds and 7 ounces. She was 20 inches long and is very healthy. She was born to my brother Chris and his wife Amanda. She has 2 big brothers whose names are Paxton and Bowman. Brian and I are thrilled to have a new neice and our kids are so excited to have a new baby "girl" cousin. Emma Cate is especially excited about there being another girl in the family! Chance on the other hand thought we were getting the baby ourselves. When I picked up the kids from school on Thursday I told them that we did not have a baby yet, but she would be here soon! Chance's response was, "Daddy better get home soon and start building that cradle so the baby will have somewhere to sleep tonight!" Oh how I wish it were that easy!
Welcome to the world baby Kerrington! We can't wait to meet you!

Big brother Paxton and baby Kerrington.
Amanda, Chris and their new precious baby girl!
Kerrington Paige

Dog Food?

Last week when we were fast and furiously trying to get off to school, Campbell decided to give Bogey (our dog) a little snack. He went to the kitchen and came back to the bathroom, where we keep the dog bowls, and was holding a box of cereal. I was busy brushing teeth and really didn't pay much attention to what he was doing until I looked down and he had filled up the bowl with cereal. If that wasn't bad enough, he sat down next to him and started eating the cereal with Bogey! I didn't know if I should laugh or cry! Needless to say, Bogey had a good breakfast that morning! It had to beat the dog food!

Halloween Happenings

Last week the kids had a blast with all the Halloween festivities. We started on Wednesday with the Halloween parade at their school. After the parade we celebrated two of the kids parties at school and on Thursday we had one more! They woke up on Friday and kept partying! In our neighborhood every year we have a hayride and party which consists of lots of rides around the block, pizza, cupcakes and lots of candy! After the party we all go trick or treating together. The kids always have so much fun! I've posted a slideshow of all the fun events of the week. In case you are wondering about our costumes...they all picked out their own this year! No theme, they are all growing up and have an opinion now! As you will notice Emma Cate was 2 things this year!

Fall, Football, Family and Fun!

This past Saturday night we went to a Bulldog football game. We had a great time with Nanny, Papa, Aunt Laura, Uncle Trey and Brooke. We also celebrated Nanny's birthday while we were there! Before the game started we went to tailgate at the stadium. The kids jumped on blow up jumpers, ate hot dogs, ice cream and played! The biggest hit for Campbell was talking to the police officer with his sirens and lights flashing! Chance was really excited to watch the marching band! Emma Cate just loved running around in her new cheerleader outfit, showing off her missing tooth and running around with her cousin Brooke!

Do you like my new red and blue hair?!
Cousins and friends!
Our future football player!
Campbell is showing Papa the police car. Family fun!
Go Bulldogs!
Chance is taking Campbell on a spin on his new bike!
Chance singing the National Anthem!
Campbell sitting still for the first time all night!
Papa and his boy!
Blue horns for everyone made a very quiet game!
The horns gave all the kids blue mouths!

What's Missing?

This past Friday Emma Cate lost her first tooth! She wiggled and wiggled it until we could finally pull it out! Granmom (Brian's Grandmother) has pulled all of her kids, the grandkids and great- grandkids teeth, so I thought it might be special if she pulled Emma Cate's first tooth. We went over there and as you might expect, she was a pro! It totally made Emma Cate's day and I think it might have made Granmom's day, too! Our little baby smiled all day! She was so excited! We reached another milestone with our little toothless princess! What a joy it is to be her Mommy!


Emma Cate and Granmom after the tooth pull!

A new hole in her teeth to show to all! She is so proud!

Emma Cate the next morning with her tooth fairy pillow.
She said that she had a nice Tooth Fairy!