Thanksgiving Fun

We had a great Thankgiving dinner at Gaga's house. Jahnae, Damon and their families all got to come so we had a large crew! Lots of good food and fun was had by all.

Jahnae and her "mini me"...Aidyn!

Brendan, the excellent story teller. He kept the kids attention for a while!

Aidyn, Kennedi, Jackson and Ainsleigh listening to Brendan's stories.

On Saturday, everyone headed out to our house for some fun.

Can you believe we actually got all 9 kids to sit down together and halfway smile? I think there was a full moon.

Bailey, Aidyn, Ainsleigh, Jackson, Brendan holding Addi, Cooper, Kennedi and Sierra

Jahnae and her family

Taylor and his family

Damon and his family

Taylor and Kennedi

We couldn't get Cooper to smile much for his Christmas pictures earlier this day, but he sat down and kept saying cheese. Go figure!!!!!

Damon and Aidyn playing.

Sierra...I am not exactly sure what she was doing!

Jackson and Cooper had too much fun. They crashed after all the kids left. Of course our Energizer Bunny (Ainsleigh) was still going.

Jackson's Thanksgiving Program

The Kindergarten classes held a special Thanksgiving Program for the parents. It was so cute. They sang several songs which were very funny. Then we all went back to their classrooms for a special "play". Jackson had a huge fan club...mom, dad, Ainsleigh, Cooper, Gaga, Mimi and Popsy were in the crowd to cheer him on and of course do lots of waving to him:)

Our Pilgrim looked more like a country singer. Doesn't his hat

look like a cowboy hat, especially the way he is wearing it?

Most of the Kindergarteners singing their hearts out. The turkeys were on the front row and they were hilarious!












Back in Mrs. Dorsten's class for the special play.













Jackson was the minister along with being a Pilgrim. He had the only single speaking part and did a great job!

A very proud mom and dad with the star Pilgrim.

The Bees End of Season Party

We had our end of season party at CiCi's. The kids had a great time. They even had sugar cookies that were decorated like baseballs.

Jackson getting his trophey from Coach Eric.

Jackson is checking out his trophey.













Look how excited and happy he is!

Jackson, Coach Eric and Coach

The kids playing racing games. Ainsleigh and Cooper didn't have any money, but you would never know it. They just enjoyed sitting in the seats turning the wheels! Ahh, the simple things!

Celebrating an early Birthday with Papa and Grandma

Papa and Grandma were here visiting with us for almost a week. They had work to do but found lots of time to play with us. They even brought birthday presents for Ainsleigh and Cooper. We couldn't wait....we had to open just one now! We picked the perfect one to open. The toys were so much fun. We have been playing with them alot. Thanks Papa and Grandma!!!!!!





They were trying to figure out exactly what to do. Luckily their big brother was a pro at ripping off wrapping paper!












Jackson was a big help to Cooper. He would get a corner started and tell Cooper to pull! It was sweet.

Ooooh, a farm!





Ainsleigh LOVED her Princess Castle.


















Cooper was really into the animals. He had to make all of their sounds.









Mommy and Cooper playing farm.

Ainsleigh playing with her castle.

Last Fall Baseball Game

After so many rainouts, reschedules and yet more rainouts, we played our last ballgame for the fall. It was a beautiful day! Gaga got to come see our little baseball star! He had great hits yet again. One went way up in the air between the first and second baseman and rolled into the outfield and under the fence!

Waiting for a ground ball.

He caught it!

Here is that great hit!

On first base.

Sliding into home plate. This was a HUGE deal. We just learned how to do this and needed to do it alot.

Here is our future baseball player. He already can

run the bases...just not in the right order.

If this is any indication of things to come...we are in trouble!

Halloween Fun in Murray

We survived Halloween! We had lots of fun in Murray. I think my parent's neighborhood was much more crazy than ours in Franklin if you can believe it. The kids all got dressed with little prodding and went to several houses. Jackson of course went to more houses than the babes, but he was back at Mimi and Popsy's in time to hand out the last of the candy.







Dorothy, The Scarecrow and Bobafett

Doesn't Cooper look cute? He wore his hat the entire night!

Ainsleigh kept her pigtails in all night too!























Look how excited Jackson was to get all dressed up!

Mom and Ainsleigh trick-or-treating

Jackson was in a dead run most of the night. The
babes were way too slow for him! By the end of the
night, he was worn out.

This house was scary. Jackson wants Popsy to decorate his house like this next year.






















Mom and Mimi's arms were tired by the end of the night.

Handing out candy at Mimi and Popsy's.

Mom, Cooper and Jackson handing out candy.


















Mom and Jackson

Ainsleigh was hilarious. She wouldn't let ANYONE touch

her pumpkin. She wanted to look at her candy. We all

asked her, "Ainsleigh can I hold your pumpkin?".

Her response was "NO" and she would grab it

tighter and run the other way.

Mr. Cheese once again

Taylor found his pledge "sheet" so we had to take our pictures with it in front of the Lambda Chi house.

Our bricks at the Alumni Center at Murray State.





Jackson on the MSU sign. Look at all of the beautiful mums!