Santa visits Addyson at school

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Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving Day at my parent's house in Grenada. I only managed a few pictures.

Caroline Ruth Day

Amy(my sister) and Matt welcomed sweet Baby Caroline on October 18. Last weekend I flew down to meet her and enjoyed some time with her big sister and brother.

Addyson's Birthday Day 2

Since Addyson LOVES animals, we decided that she would LOVE going to the zoo. So the Sunday before her actual birthday we met Aunt Angela and went to the zoo. She had a wonderful time and as you can tell she's getting her "cheese" smile down pat!!

Addyson Turns 2- Day ONE

We like to spread birhdays out around here. On Tuesday Addyson will be TWO, but we decided to go ahead and kick off the celebration today. We gave her the "big" birthday present and let her break it in. She loved it- she giggled and squealed the first 10 minutes at least!!

Halloween

Lookout neighborhood, here we come!!

Cutest Bug EVER!!

The TOUGH LOOK

Going to a neighbor's Halloween party

Laken (center)went trick or treating and to a Halloween party with friends, then they all slept over at our house. This was the first year I didn't watch her trick or treat : (

sleeping like a baby...

Laken-pep rally

State Swim Banquet

This banquet is by invitation only and only the top 5 swimmers in each event for each age group are invited. Ryan Lochte (Olympic swimmer) was the guest speaker. The banquet was held in Jackson. I was really proud that both of my swimmers received this honor!!

All of the Top 5 swimmers from Starkville:


Posing with Ryan Lochte

MSU tailgating

All of these tents were set up by Southern Tradition Tailgating:

The rain won't stop my fun!!

Loving Andrew

Arriving at the Tailgate

TIME TO GO!!!!

Tailgating with friends

Pappy went Bye-Bye

Addyson recently said bye bye to pappy when day care started. This is the last picture I have with her and pappy : (

Emma Kate's birthday party

Lake Tiak O'khata

This weekend we met the Dinkelackers and the Fords at Lake Tiak O'khata. This is a lake with diving boards, water slides, and pedal boats. We had a picnic lunch and a wonderful dinner at the lake restaurant. It was a perfect summer afternoon and only thirty minutes from our house!!

First Day of School

Laken started SEVENTH GRADE!! She has friends in all of her classes and is especially excited about Viva Art this year.

Cade started THIRD GRADE!! He likes school as much as he can like school : ) He is good friends with two of the boys in his class. His teacher is very creative and he was pumped about winning a day at the teacher's desk by playing a game called homeworkopoly...

Addyson started day care/preschool. She hasn't cried about being left, but the teacher did tell me this afternoon Addyson kept telling the teacher, "she be back." How sad is that-she's trying to be positive!! Bless her heart!!

Preston and Nelson come to visit

My friend Michelle was going to a funeral the other day, and she asked me to keep her boys. Of course I was thrilled since I don't get to see them nearly enough!! As you can see my kids loved having them here, and Addyson really played and shared SOME with Preston- a first for her!! I love the one of him mowing and her following with the baby to make sure he does it right : )