Top Ten

Here is my Thanksgiving Day Top Ten:

10. Kids old enough to play games without adult help.

9. Opening a Christmas present early, just because Aunt Cake wants to see how cute they are:)


She loved her shiny shoes!
8. A Family where the Men cook the turkey and the Uncle carves it! (on a side note: in a very unthanksgiving way, we all started to eat while Jim was still carving)


7. Pulling on the wishbone with my son all the while hoping that he got the bigger half-and he did!

6. Going to ANY restaurant that wraps up your leftovers like this:

5. Random nakedness from many little children. I especially loved it when they would escape from a grandparent only half dressed and run through the house.

4. Black Friday Shopping

3. Nieces and Nephews that I don't see near enough.

2. My children loving on their new cousin Mary Martin, pretty much constantly.


...AND THE NUMBER 1. THING I LOVED ABOUT THANKSGIVING

My Parents Being So Willing To Help Out More Than One Can Truly Imagine (really, think all the baths, clothing changes, bottles, nighttime wake ups, etc, etc, etc) so we could have

DATE NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blogger Mood

I am a woman and because of that I have the right to change my mood at a moments notice. Sometimes I can control it and sometimes I can't. Contain yourselves with that shocking bit of news. So lately I haven't been in a blogging mood. Maybe it's because I am not feeling witty or because we haven't done anything very fun or maybe b/c I believe that ALL blogs should have pictures and well, my camera sucks and it hasn't been out of my purse in quite sometime.

It would be funny to show you a picture of my cracked phone that went flying through the air when I was ripping my hand out of my pocket to wave to a neighbor (that's just how neighborly I am). It might also be funny to show you a picture of my phone floating in the bathtub(yes, they float) because it fell out of my pocket while I was giving Linley a bath, but no, I didn't take pictures of those. I did laugh at them and then nearly cry when I thought of the "I told you so's" that I was going to get.

So instead of something witty and funny we will think about our favorite side dishes at Thanksgiving: mine is crockpot dressing and Darrell's is a spicy cajun corn maque choux. Care to share?

I'll leave you with this and the hope that I will indeed photograph some major Family Funny this week.

Jackson's last soccer game ( I really can't believe how big he is or how old I am)


And 2 of LInley at her fall program.

Fear of the Unknown

Darrell and I hauled the kids to Memphis this weekend to celebrate Grandaddy's Birthday!
About 30 minutes from our exit it dawned on me: 'I forgot Linley's boopies (aka pacifier).'
We have had good intentions on taking aways those horrible things, but we have been to chicken to do it. Ever since Linley's first birthday we have wanted to give them the heave ho, but both of us were afraid of the weeks of nighttime crying and getting out of bed again so we have conveniently put off that horrible task.

So I had a decision to make: go buy one or just deal with it while I had grandparent backup. So we dealt with it and it was a piece of cake. What were we so afraid of again? Why did we not remember that our daughter loves sleep more than anything besides food? Really, she cried for about 1 minute and it was pretty much over.

We proceeded to have fun the rest of the weekend. Here was the super fun Memphis Botanical Gardens:

Jackson and I built this fort and chair. He thought the chair looked like a toilet and hence there is a funny face on him:)


The spider web:



An attempt to get a cute picture for all of the free photo card, ornament and photo calendar deals here, here and here. That obviously didn't turn out like I had hoped.


But aren't they just adorable anyway?

And these two: Words just can't express...

1st Hair Cut

For most of you, just stop reading. This post is not funny or witty or really even informational.
Now for the grands and great grands: I cut Linley's hair! Really it was just a trim in the back and she begged for it so I gave in.

She looks adorable and now the back is the same length as the front. I did not save a curl from her first haircut-that is until Darrell told me that I must: so I dug through the trash and pulled one out.

Here is documentation (and why are all of my words underlined?)

Pre hair-cut with finger in nose

Post haircut: She was only sad because she wanted to cut some too.

What to Post

So I can't decide what to post about.

I could post about this adorable chicken:


Or this scary vampire with Black hair:


Or how adorable Jackson is with his best Kindergarten buddy:


But really what I was most excited about on Halloween was getting all of these groceries for
$12.50

I know that I am crazy, but I really was excited.

Happy Halloween

3 Guesses

I'll give you three chances to guess what I am taking a picture of here:

1.

2.


3.
Did you get it? If not, you will have to listen to my story:) Darrell and I were waiting on our front porch last night, ever so patiently. What were we waiting for? Glad you asked. We were waiting for two grandparents, who shall not be named, to return our precious cargo to us from a long weekend away.

Thankfully, I had my phone with me on the front porch when I get a call from the nameless grandparent: "Dianne, we are on the side on the interstate, we ran out of gas."
Me: "That's funny, are you kidding?"
Gparent: "No, it is plain as day, right here on 840 before you get onto I-65"
Me: "We'll be right there."

Then, I started laughing and interrupted Darrell's, conversation with a neighbor and we headed off.

Really, who runs out of gas these days? Isn't that what the little orange light is for? We got a good laugh out of it and as I was snapping pictures the nameless grandparent says, "Oh, no am I going to end up on the blog?"
Indeed you are Grams, except for the fact that you wouldn't pose next to that lovely truck that hauled my beautiful children, nearly, all the way home.