Thanksgiving Weekend

My pictures are backwards (again). I always forget it loads them in reverse order that I upload them until I have already added them, and by that time I don't care enough to change it. So, we had a great long weekend for Turkey Day- and hope you all did too! My side of the family rented a cabin in Blue Ridge, Ga to spend Thanksgiving. We drove up Wednesday afternoon and came home this morning. We spent time together cooking,baking, eating, playing games, watching movies, etc... We also visited a few local places around town and went to the downtown Blue Ridge tree lighting and parade Saturday night. Here's the "great tree" after the lighting: Us freezing waiting for the tree to be lit...they took their time!

Maddox and Adam watching the parade

Some of the fun characters in the parade

Jackson was being a stinker and didn't want his picture taken

The depot and caboose!

Thanksgiving dinner- Adam's parents drove up Thursday to join us! My aunt and Carlos were also there...there are a few people missing in this picture, but we forgot to get a group shot.

Some of the yummy food...

Me and Mom

For Stratton:

The boys love dancing to music videos on tv. They LOVE music- they both know half of the songs on the radio these days. Every Saturday morning we watch the top 20 countdown on VH1 and some days I'll put videos on and they dance in teh livingroom as they sing along. Tonight I got a video! We'll a snip-it anyway- Jackson thought I was cooking but I was hiding as I video taped him. Looks like he remembered some of his breakdancing lessons from Uncle Stratton!!

Jackson's class had a little Thanksgiving feast and performance of their own this morning. All the kids sang a few songs for the parents (there's a video of one below) and some of the parents brought food in to make a Thanksgiving lunch together. This little turkey handprint was at his seat along with a Turkey Day song for us to sing together

Here he is in his turkey head hat! (He's in the orange striped shirt)

Everyone practicing their songs-

New Paint!

This was our living room until a few days ago: a cold gray color... (above was our ceiling before- it was a really light gray) but because it's such a big and hollow room the cool gray made it feel cold and not-so-cozy...so we re-painted last weekend and Adam added can lights to the ceiling and we re-painted it too!

its a shade or two lighter than the walls, and the walls are a "Toffee Crunch" dark tan/light brown color. It's hard too tell in these pictures because during the day our livingroom gets so much sunlight but the paint is actually A LOT darker than the gray was!!

Since my accent color is blue, I added a splash to a couple walls-

It's a little "cozier" now that the color is warmer

I have to go make a bunch of food to bring in for Jackson's class Thanksgiving now, but check back later I'll have pictures from his class feast and performance!!

Jackson & Maddox conversation

I was getting the boys ready for bed tonight and they were both in Maddox's room getting their pjs on when I over heard this from outside the door:

Jackson: "Maddox, you rub my legs?? I'll give you a dollar..."

I then walked in the room and said "what's wrong?"

Maddox: "Jacknen's yegs hurtin" (his language)

Me: "Jackson, your legs hurting?"

Jackson: "yeah, I want the petin pad (aka-heating pad) I got crabs." (aka-cramps)



These two are characters for sure...so funny.

Check out the new kicks!

This guy has been keeping busy being a rockstar...as always, And this guy has been busy feeling under the weather and a little grouchy because of it.

NO MORE SCOOBYS!!! You may have noticed in all previous posts in the last YEAR Maddox is wearing a pair of Scooby-Doo Crocs...he LOVES them. I have taken him 3x to pick new shoes and he refuses. But we had family pictures today and not only did I not want Scooby in the family photo, but Scooby was getting too small. So, remember these???

Converse OneStars- I myself had a pair in 1996... they are back and look oh so cute on these little feet!!!

Does he look like a rockstar or what?? I totally dig them, and since I have convinced the little man that these shoes make him run faster, so does he! I never thought I'd get them on him but after fussing about them for only a few minutes he was sold!

Happy Halloween!!

Well...the kiddies made out with some great loot last night! Here's our "spooky house" after we spider-webbed it and lit our jack-o-lanterns...mine totally rotted and adam's was pretty rotten too, but it was still ok to light. I carved a new one yesterday afternoon:

Avery came over to trick-or-treat with the boys. Our neighborhood is a little better for trick-or-treating and there aren't many kids her age in hers; so she joined us again this year!

Poor Maddox- he felt like poo. He threw up about 15 minutes before we left and right after he threw up he cried: "I wanna go get candy" he must have known he might not be able to go! Anyway, my mom offered to stay with him and answer the door but I said I would atleast take him to 4-5 houses and then she could come back with him. So once he got suited up he said he wanted to ride in his stroller...and I guess since he didnt have to walk around he did okay because he made it the whole way!! We didn't do the entire neighborhood...but about 25-30 houses. I was just glad he didn't have to miss out, they had both been looking forward to going all week!

Walker had a ghost tee-shirt on and he went with us as well...he didn't know what to do with himslef I don't think. There were so many people out and ofcourse everyone walks up to ask "if he's friendly and can they pet him?" Maybe people always think he looks mean because of his size?? I think he has a really sweet looking face. (I could be biased) Well I'm off to take Maddox to the doctor- have a great day!