Pile It On

Grandpa & Granny have a huge yard with lots of trees, which this time of year means lots of leaves. And so Hampton & Harrison got to enjoy one of the joys of childhood....jumping in the leaf piles! They raked them, rolled in them, squished them, and put them in their mouths (that last one was mostly Harrison). Most importantly, they had a blast being outside in the fall air!

 

North Pole Breakfast

We welcomed Telly, our elf, back this year with our annual North Pole breakfast. With special goodies like chocoalte milk and snow-covered powdered sugar to eat, we gathered around and had a little early holiday party with Telly. He's so thoughtful that he even brought the boys a couple of gifts to get them in the holiday spirit!

 

Weekend Update

This weekend was craziness! Here are a few of the things we packed in:

Our first Thanksgiving night shopping spree. Lets just say we crossed it off our bucket list & now we never have to do that again!

Bo stood for hours in line to score cheap Hangout Festival tickets.

We went to a fun birthday party for Hamp's little friend Lucas

We decorated the house (mostly)

Tanner & Randi slaved on monogramming orders

We got Hampton ready for his first day back to school in like two weeks!

Thanksgiving Day 2012

 We had a very low-key & wonderful holiday this year, celebrating at Grandpa & Granny's house. Grandi joined us (Granddaddy was in TN helping his mom put on a spread), and we had a delicious meal of Bo's smoked turkey, as well as dressing & macaroni & cheese recreated from Tanner's Grandmother's recipe. Add in all the sides & desserts made by Randi & Jan, and we had one major meal! We were all too stuffed to even have seconds...that's pretty bad on our favorite meal of the year!

We had a great time watching the parade, a tradition Tanner's family has been doing since she was little, as well as playing outside, looking through the stacks of Black Friday ads, and catching a little bit of the dog show while playing trains. We got some great photos, especially since the weather was amazing and the trees were gorgeous! Here are a few of our favorite photos. Hope everyone had as wonderful of a day as we did!

Happy Turkey Day!

"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; His love endures forever."--Psalm 118:29

Thankful list

Tanner has been counting down the things we're thankful for all month, but we do have some not-so-serious things we're thankful for, too! So here are some of our other favorites:

Pizza, the world's perfect food. Tanner loves that Hamp loves it as much as she does!

Diet Coke, which is sometimes the only thing that gets us through the day!

That Grandi loves a craft project as much as we do, which comes in handy with Hampton.

Our DVR, which holds such wonderful shows as Scandal, Revenge, Austin City Limits, and hours upon hours of Yo Gabba Gabba

That 2 of the 3 sets of Grandparents live locally, and the other set we get to see via Skype.

Technology, which allows us to share our lives on the blog!

The joy that Harrison has while walking. He's so proud of himself!

The silliness that fills our home. It's wild & crazy here every minute, but we wouldn't change a thing!

That Hampton & Harrison are starting to play together & become the brothers we are so excited for them to be!

Holiday Countdown Craziness

Somehow Thanksgiving has surprised us with it's arrival this week. So has the realization that our schedules are packed full until after Christmas! With all the parties & events around the corner, we took this past weekend to stock up on groceries & gifts for the holidays. We ran like crazy, but we were able to get most of our shopping done. Now we just have to do the cooking, wrapping, assembling, crafting, decorating, addressing, and shipping! Do you think Santa would let us borrow an elf? We think we're gonna need it!


Hampton & Harrison helping at the grocery store. What would we do without Publix's free cookies & fun grocery carts?