Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday! We had a great day here with lots of guests at our house for dinner....we spent the day with my brother in law, Mark and his daughter Olivia, our friends Chris & Katia and their son Tyler, Katia's parents visiting from France, and of course Aunt Amanda. It was a really beautiful day yesterday so we enjoyed our dinner outside on the deck and John smoked a really, really good turkey on the big green egg. Here are a few pics......


The three of us......


austin and his cousin Olivia....


The chef and his smoked turkey....


Austin trying out some turkey and all the sides!

Gustav evacuation.....

So end of august-beginning of September my parents came down for about a week to evacuate for Gustav and Austin got to have another good time with his grandparents. I had to post these pictures because he just looks like he is having such a good time....they were playing with all his little instruments and listening to a kid's mardi gras cd we have......


Playing my instruments with grammy.....


Here is Austin really getting into it with aunt amanda.....


Shaking my tambourine.....


And shaking my backside!

LA Visit- Part Four- Kayden's Party

While we were at home we also went to my friend Shannon's son Kayden- big summer olympics birthday party. She had all these great little olympic games set up for the kids....Austin mainly watched the big kids and everyone had a great time! Shannon- I hope I sent you this picture of Kendal because I think it is so funny- love that camera attitude!!


Kendal the poser!


Luke and Austin- the observers...........


Austin trying out the hula hoop.

LA Visit- Cali's Shower

My firends and I got the chance to get together and throw a small shower for our friend Cali, who was expecting her second child. She has since had the baby- their second boy, Jonah Miles, and we can't wait to meet him!


The girls-plus Luke and Evan


This is my friend Amanda's son Evan- he is just too cute for words!


Amanda, Evan and Shannon


My mom giving Evan lots of hugs!

LA Visit-Part Two

My parents got Austin a blow up pool in their backyard and Austin is a little fish, so we spent lots of time in that pool! We also got to have a couple visits with our family friends the Fingletons- it was the first time Beth and her two kids, Madison and Chase, met Austin and Madison and Austin are a few months apart so it was funny to see them interact. Madison is too cute!


Austin spent lots of evenings in his pool in grammy and grampy's backyard eating homemade popsicles.....


Just hanging out!


My mom made him edible playdough, so here he is trying to figure out what to do with it!


Visiting with the Fingleton's- Austin decided on this visit he wants to be a cowboy!


Trying to get a group pic with Beth and the kids- obviously it was not easy!

August LA Visit- Part One Aquarium

In August, Austin and I left Florida behind and went to spend about a week and a half at my parent's house in Louisiana. We got to take Austin to do lots of fun stuff, see lots of good friends, and had just a great time in general. Grammy and Grampy took us to the aquarium one day, and Austin just loved it!


Grammy and Austin


Grampy and Austin in their matching shirts!


Grampy and Austin checking out a cool school of fish.....


White Gator!!

Back to the Blogging World............

So here we are back to the blogging world, and we are going to make a true effort to stick with it! Austin seems to be growing up so fast and we don't want anyone to miss it! Things have been crazy here it seems for months now, with lots of things going on and changes our family has been making. I was going through some pics from the last few months and wanted to make some posts to get everyone up to date, so here it goes.........these are from a pudding painting run I did with Austin a while back- he thought it was great as you can tell by the pictures and anyone who knows my child and me, knows I just closed my eyes and let him have at it!