Happy Thanksgiving!

We drove up to John's parents' home in Georgia this year and had a great time enjoying lots of family and some really great weather! We spent thanksgiving day at John's cousins lake house and our last night there celebrated John's parents 50th wedding anniversary with a special family dinner. We actually got a lot of pics too, so here are a few............


These first two are my new favorite pictures of him........he was getting really tired that afternoon at the lakehouse and laid down on the swing to rest....so pretty with the leaves all around him.






Again- tons of nice leaves we don't have here in FL........


Somewhat of a view of the lakehouse.....John's cousin Kelly and her husband host every year here for about 25 of us!


Playing ball with Dad and my new favorite 3rd cousin Beau!


Pitching for Granddad......


Playing ball with the boys- do you notice a theme here??!


Heliping Granddad make a fire.....


Riding a space shuttle at this great playground Granddad took us all to.....


Three of us at the big anniversary dinner.


With the grandparents at dinner.....


Eating his special big boy steak dinner- he just about cleaned his plate!


With his cousins Courtney and Craig.....


Courtney, John, Uncle Mark, and Uncle Todd....


Just kickin back in my recliner in the golfing lounge!

Aunt Manda's Birthday........

Aunt Amanda's birthday (we will not disclose the year) was a couple weekends ago, so we all went up to Mark's house and he cooked a great dinner on the grill for us and his daughter Hannah made a huge birthday cake for Amanda that Austin talked about for days :) Mark has a baseball field right outside the entrance of his neighborhood so we all took Austin up there to hit some balls on the real field. We had a really great day with them........


Hannah plays softball and Austin had to try on her helmet.........


Mr. Mark's ball boy......


Helping to open presents.....


Relaxing in Mr. Mark's man chair.........


Austin needed to have his own candle on Amanda's cake to blow out :)


Daddy pitching....


Mr. Mark pitching

A Trip to the Carnival.....

A Visit to Brooksville...........

We went up to Brooksville for the night last weekend to stay with my Aunt Sherrie, Uncle Axel, and cousin Gabi. We had a great time and it was a good quick little getaway for us- they have lots of animals and we finally got to meet Gabi's horse and see her ride. Austin LOVED playing with/chasing all their cats and dogs and giving them probably more than enough treats. They have lots of land for Austin to run, a playground AND a trampoline! It was really nice for Austin to be able to spend some time with them because even though they are not that far away, somehow we don't get to see each other much!


Riding on my tractor.........this might have been his favorite thing at the barn!


Gabi jumping her horse, Classy. Austin kept telling her to go "faster, faster!". Classy is an ex-race horse and he wanted to see just how fast she could really go!


Another favorite part of the barn for Austin- there were about 5 kitties there.....


Giving Classy a bath after Gabi was done riding..........

Sesame Street Live!

We did a family outing 2 weeks ago with my moms group and went to see Sesame Street Live one night. The kids had a great time- it was like they just couldn't believe all their Sesame Street friends they know were right before their very eyes!!!





Austin's favorite- Big bird..........if you could have just seen his face when this guy came on stage!


After the show with dad and Elmo!


Attempting a group photo- yeah right!


Attempting a group photo with moms.......

Randoms...........

Our little engineer..........


Austin had been really into trying on John's watch, so we bought him his own the other day at the dollar store!

Happy Halloween!

Make a Smilebox scrap pages

Splash Park!

Oh yes, it is still 100 million degrees down here in Florida and with a sweaty little boy who lives to be outside, I cannot wait for some cooler weather! So maybe by like, Christmas say, we can expect that?! Last week we went with our playgroup to the splash park and here are a few pics.....

Weekend Fun

Swimming in my pool......


Don't ask us why we had our camera at home depot!


We spent a rainy morning at the aquarium........