Happy Halloween!

We hope that everyone has a Happy and Safe Halloween!

We will post some more pictures of Peter Pan after we get done trick or treating and head home to "Neverland".

Hangin' Tough

A bunch of us true "Blockheads", along with every other 30 something year old woman in Atlanta, headed to see the New Kids last night. Here we are.....even after all these years...still "Hangin' Tough!

Thanks ladies for the great night! I felt like I was 13 again!

Family Pumpkin Project

McKinley's teacher sent home a pumpkin last week for a family pumpkin project. We were supposed to decorate it as a family and "have fun and be creative." McKinley wanted to decorate it like a train....go figure. We finally convinced him to let us try something else. After some painting, cutting and glue.....you have.....

BAT-O-LANTERN!

Fall Fun with Friends

Friday night,McKinley had some of his friends over for pizza, cupcakes, Halloween crafts and pumpkin decorating. Here are some pictures from the night. Thanks Nanny for the fun crafts......you were a great party planner!

Shiver Me Timbers....A Pirate Pumpkin!!

We have a very serious problem at our house.....we apparently have a "cow monster" that is lurking around and scaring McKinley at night. This is his excuse for getting up every morning at about 4:45-5:00 everyday. We decided to decorate a pumpkin like a pirate to hopefully scare it away. Here are some pictures from our decorating party!


What is a Pirate Pumpkin without his first mate!

Hopefully this pumpkin will do its job....we also found some special "cow grass" to put outside his bedroom window and sprayed some special "cow repellent" to keep the cow away. Who would of known that our sweet, quaint, little house would attract such dreadful creatures.......you know it was about this time last year that we had a problem with the "shoe monster", now he was a real bugger to get rid of.....oh well all in a days work as a mommy and daddy!

(Thanks Uncle Brian for the pumpkin decorating kit! It came in really handy!)

It's a Girl!!!!

We could not wait for our next doctor's appointment, so we splurged and went to Baby Dimensions here in Newnan to find out that we are having a baby girl! I am so excited! McKinley is not to sure about a little girl, he keeps saying that he really wants a boy instead. Hopefully he will change his mind. I was 100% sure that this baby was a boy, and am beside myself with the thought of pink!!!!!

This is not the best picture, but the view is looking at her from the bottom up. Her legs are pulled up and those are the little spots at the top. It is kind of hard to tell in the picture, but we could see it really well on the tv screen. She was not very cooperative and kept moving for the picture!

Here is the first official head shot of our little girl....

Marley Ann!

(she has her little hand up to her face....so sweet!)

She kind of looks like an alien......but she is the most precious little alien that I have ever seen!

Moving on up....to a new room!

With the new baby on the way, we decided it was time to move McKinley to a new big boy/brother room. I started this project over a month ago, but it was very slow going. Finally it all came together this weekend. Aunt Tammy and Aunt Holly came over Friday night to help paint. The new furniture was delivered Saturday afternoon and we finished up moving his stuff into his new room Sunday afternoon. Here he is tucked into his new big bed. He told me that he loved his new room "it is perfect"

Fun at the Fair......Twice!

The fair is here in town and we went.....twice! This is McKinley's 3rd year going to the fair, but the first year that he really enjoyed it! McKinley and I decided to go opening night since Andy had to work the fair and we didn't have anything else to do. He wanted to ride EVERYTHING....especially the Ferris Wheel and was very mad that he was not old enough. He was especially persistant on riding the dragon "train". I tried to tell him that it was not a train, but a roller coaster. He would not listen to me and wanted to ride anyway. He was a little scared about getting on by himself, but luckily one of my students from school was there and offered to ride with him. I love his face in this picture. He was scared to death. Everytime the ride would pass me, he would scream "Stop the train.....this train in crazy!" He did much better on the more stationary rides......

Saturday night we went back to the fair to see the Lumberjack competition. (our neighbor was competing....he won the last 2 years and took home the title again)

Here is Scott and McKinley watching the events.

Not only did we meet up with Holly, Scott and the twins....we also met up with Uncle Brian!

The kids had loads of fun riding the rides and playing games.

Yes, McKinley had to ride the dragon train again!

What is a trip to the fair without some yummy cotton candy.

I love this picture....the twins will eat anything.....here they are chomping down on lemons!

Spread-Head in the making?????

It seems like I am not the only one excited about Widespread Panic coming to town.....I was cooking tonight listening to the radio and McKinley joined me and jammed out.

McKinley would like to dedicate this show to Uncle Scott.....maybe we should have gotten 3 tickets instead of 2!

Enjoy!

Trigger the T-Rex

To reward and celebrate McKinley doing so well at school, we went to Build-A-Bear to make a new friend. About a year ago, we made Toby the Triceratops, so today we decided to make him a friend.....Trigger the T-Rex.

McKinley and the Gang!

First Day of School

Today was a big day for McKinley. It was his first day of school. He has gone to a local preschool for the last few years, but that was only for a few hours, 2 days a week. Today he started big boy school which is all day- 5 days a week. He was very lucky to get into a class at Aunt Tammy's school, which makes mommy feel better since he is not at school with me yet! Here are some pictures from our morning. He was most excited about his bookbag and lunchbox. He was so excited that he put them on at 6:40 this morning and did not want to take them off even though he was not leaving for school for another 20 minutes. He was ready! McKinley is showing off his muscles in this picture. He is telling me how strong he is and that he can carry all of his stuff.

McKinley said he had a good day and that he liked it and wanted to go back tomorrow. I have tried all afternoon to ask him about school, but have not gotten much , but I do know that.....

1-you have to wear your shoes during naptime in case of a firedrill

2-he could not play on the playground because they were sweeping it (they were cutting grass and weedeating.....isn't that too cute....I guess seeing somebody weedeating does kind of look like sweeping)

3- Miss. Tracy and Miss. Misty are just like Miss. Susan and Miss Amy (his teachers last year) but more fun!