Out with friends

Friday night we ventured to Cabot to hang out with Laura and Brent while they enjoyed some downtime before their big weekend. They are getting married Saturday and about to have a LOT of activity. Thanks for the great food and fun...and we can't wait til next weekend!

Thursday night was Bunco with the girls (though we never play the game) and since Mary Carole was sporting my favorite outfit...I had to catch it on camera!

Playing around the house

So now that Ethan is sitting up better, he really enjoys his Bumbo seat AND he like playing in his exercauser. It's so fun to see him trying to figure out how he is making the noises and spinning the toys. He gets so intent on it..then he will look up and smile like "are you watching me? do you see what I can do?" He just gets more and more fun everyday!

1st Children's Event

Well...all who know me, know i LOVE Christmas. So I took Ethan to the Christmas Children's Event at the Junior League Building. I knew he wouldn't get much out of it, I just wanted his picture with Santa and thought he might be able to do some of the craft stuff. Well....Ethan wasn't real sure about Santa. I haven't gotten my pictures yet, but I don't think he smiled for any. I'm sure I entertained the other adults b/c I would RUN up to him and get him to smile and giggle, then run back out of the picture and every time I got back out, he had stopped smiling. So I got a good leg workout and he probably was never caught on camera smiling. Then, I made him do a handprint craft and he screamed when they painted his hand. So we decided it was time to leave, but on the way out we thought we would try to get a pic with the snowman...and you can see how that turned out.

Christmas Grandboys

My mom is thinking of using a picture this year of just her grandchildren, so Ethan and cousin Reagan had a little photo shoot thanksgiving weekend. You can see Reagan really loves his little cousin! And Ethan's sweater is too big for him.....he is not THAT big yet! Then Reagan wanted to "hold" Ethan, so uncle Courtney had to hop in and help. :)

Thanksgiving in Plumerville

We had Thanksgiving lunch out at the Grays' on Thanksgiving this year. Ethan got passed around as usual, and it was so great to see that entire side of the family...also we got to hang out with Brandon's brother Jared and his wife Brandi who we haven't seen in months. So it was a VERY happy holiday! We spent that evening with my family, but I got sick and hate to admit that I got no photos!!! AND, Chris (my middle brother) came home with his FIANCE' for the first time, so I'm doubly disappointed that I have no pics of them. It was great to see them though and we are so excited they are getting married!

Callie's Baby Shower

Callie had a new baby boy, Carson, on Nov. 19. We took her out to dinner at Cafe Prego and then surprised her with treats and gifts at Kelly and Terri's place. She was so cute pregnant and I'm sorry I'm just now posting these since she had Carson several weeks ago!

Uncle Jonathan

Ok....so I've really been a slacker at blogging since going back to work. I promise to try to do better after I get caught up tonight. Brandon's cousin Jonathan came to visit on his way back to Dallas a few weeks ago. Ethan was in a fussy mood...but he seemed to like Uncle Jonathan....we hope to see him at Christmas so Ethan can get to know him!!