Happy Belated Thanksgiving Post!!!

First up... JE in his war paint!! This pic is courtesy of my mom who picks him up from preschool for me! He is usually pretty tired when he comes home, and I think that shows in this pic! However, ain't he cute!!! :)

I know this is late... but here is the Turkey that started our Thanksgiving week!! We started the week before Thanksgiving by celebrating with my parents and my brother Jason and his wife Jenni. Then we got a couple days rest before heading to Opelika on Thursday to celebrate with my grandparents, Uncle, and other brother John. We left Opelika shortly after lunch and celebrated again in Selma with Jamie's grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins. Then we finally made it home around 7:30pm.... of course I left shortly after to begin my new craziness of BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING!!!! Yes that was me standing in line at Toys r Us two hours before they opened!! It wasn't too bad! Met some interesting people, even ran into someone that knew my parents!!! It's a small world after all!! (now that song is in your head!!) I got pretty much everything I went shopping for that day and made it home by 7am! I even scored a free donut at Woods and Water before going home, however I missed out on the free t-shirts they were giving away :( (who would have thought 250 shirts would run out in 30 minutes!!) I made it home to be met by two dancing children in the garage wanting to know where I had been... why to the North Pole of course!! Hubby let me take a little nap, then it was Iron Bowl time!!!

WAR EAGLE!!!!!

Lastly, we finished our Thanksgiving festivities on the Sunday after Thanksgiving by celebrating with Jamie's parents, brother, Jason (Beth had to work), and grandmother in Pine Hill! Had a great time there and finished the day by going to the shooting range and firing my rifle that I haven't used in several years... Eric also got a chance to shoot his BB gun!! I have pics of this too that I will post later!! Any who.... that was our whirlwind Thanksgiving week!! And boy do we have a lot to be thankful for!!

This is Eric dressed as a Native American for his school program!!

Such a cool pose!!

Eric and his classmates... the pilgrims are to your left....

one last shot of Thanksgiving.. JE insisted I take his picture while eating a fabulous meal... He kept saying "Cheese!" Which is JEspeak for take my picture please!!


Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving too!!! Now time for Christmas!!!

Fall 2008 scrapbook page!!

Starting to get the hang of this!! Still way unorganized!! If it weren't for Rene' I probably wouldn't even be doing this! You know me, I love a competition!! Anyway, my designs are pretty simple as I begin my scrapping journey!!

Surprises!!!

so... we painted our living room a couple of months back, a lovely shade of brown!! Well, you know how things go sometimes and we "took our time" getting the plate cover back on the wall where our surround sound wire comes out to connect to the sub woofer(because the surround sound is not hooked up right now). Anyways, we are sitting around one night and JE is playing with Pat the Hammer (Handy Manny)near the hole in the wall. Next thing ya know, you hear "Uh Oh!" and JE is pointing at the hole and their is no Pat the hammer around anymore... Guess where he is... in the wall. So I stick my little arm in the hole (hoping there were no spiders) and got out Pat... and then I discovered his little stash... see below for everything that I pulled out of the wall that night!! Needless to say the cover is on the wall now!!!

Contents: 2 lego men, lego block, and lego siren and lights

6 golf balls, 1 yellow ball, 1 green ball

1 fishing bobber

several mardi gras beads

and pat the hammer!!

Miss Heart of America Pageant

This past weekend my niece, Rebecca, competed in the Miss Heart of America (Alabama). The event took place in Birmingham at the Sheraton. She's pretty new to pageants, but is beautiful and did great. There were 5 other girls in her division...

This is her during the introduction where she announced that she loves children and hopes to be a pediatrician one day!! She would be great at that!!

Here she is waiting for the formal wear competition....

And here she is walking the runway in her dress... so pretty! (ps I have no idea how to turn the pictures on this thing so I'm sorry you have to turn your head a few times!!)

She stood here and hugged every contestant that came off the runway... if there had been a Miss congeniality she would have won it!!

Can't believe how grown up she looks!!!

Rebecca and John after the competition is over....

She was so tired, she also had a slight cold :(

Caroline took this wonderful picture of me and my brother!!

and here is me and Caroline!!

Then Caroline and her daddy!!!(it was a long wait for the judges to tally their votes!!)

and lastly, Miss Caroline took a pic of herself!! :)

Rebecca did not win, however that does not matter! She is still a very beautiful girl and we were proud of her for doing it! Caroline has chimed in that she does not care to do a pageant!!

brothers

So, John Emory has learned how to play the running game on the Wii! He's so funny playing it! Of course he insists that he is the only one to play... no one else can have a turn! He's not to good at sharing!! :)

Isn't this so sweet!! Eric was riding it and JE wanted to get on, so he hopped on the front!! I am so glad that they get along most of the time!!!

first solo scrap page?!

So, this is my first attempt at scrapbooking by myself?! I must say it is super hard to do with two kids running aroud wanting your full attention! I created this layout all by my lonesome... & I must say It's not that bad! It's pretty simple and not too much!! I think I scored a super deal at Michaels on the supplies!

October 2010

Okay, so this got kind of long and all mixed up with the pictures!! Hope you enjoy! We've had a great October and hope you did too!!


These are our beautiful pumpkins that jamie carved with our pumpkins we got from the pumpkin patch!! He's so talented!!

Sorority row tirck or treating... the whole group

Aren't they so sweet! Eric is such a great big brother!!

Trick or Treating

So we dressed up at work and had a decade theme! Yes that's me in the sweater dress and big hair! I got my whole outfit at the thrift store for like five bucks!! (including the shoes)

Both of my little Fire Fighters

JE's western attire for western day at school!!

Fire Fighter Eric

Eric's costume came in the mail before JE's did :( I only let him have it b/c I needed to try it on him first!!

JE's preschool had funny sock day. We were to make his funny socks.... so we found some neat buttons and sewed them on!! He loved them!

Jason, Eric and Jamie went to the hunting camp to look around and found a wild pig!

The Race Car driver taking the fire fighter for a drive!! This was at CHOM's halloween festival!!

Every time I cook, JE grabs a chair and joins me! I'm not sure what is in this creation, but I'm sure I wouldn't eat it!! Future Chef???

Eric's class at the Pumpkin Patch in Clanton!

The kids helped this fall with putting sand around the playground at mom and dad's house! We are thankful for the pleasant weather for letting them get outside and run out some energy!!