Pumpkin Patch

I was waiting on the weather to cool off some before I took the girls to the pumpkin patch this year. Well, it still hasn't cooled off so Coach and Gram took them for a while today after the girls stayed the night with them last night. I think they can tell I'm getting more tired lately (It's probably the early school mornings with Ella, keeping up with a very busy and active 2 year old, Sophie, and the last month of Seth's pregnancy-ha!) Anyway, they had a great time and on the way to get pizza for the game I met them there to catch a little of the fun and take some pictures. Thanks Coach and Gram for the fun day with the girls! Here are some pictures after they did some of the fun things such as the hay ride, jumping house, petting zoo, swing set, and tractor rides. I hated to miss all of the fun so I made it for the final few activities they had!

By the time I arrived they were hot and tired but still had to get their pumpkins to carve.

Sophie calls pumpkins a "pumpkin patch." She had some clothes on with a pumpkin on them last week and called the pumpkin on her shirt a "pumpkin patch" all day! She keeps us laughing.

Sophie wanted to give the scarecrow a big hug! The sign above it said Ella on it too.


The girls only kept their heads in the barn animal cut outs for like 2 seconds for the photo opp...


Here is what Tadd and the girls did tonight with their pumpkins they brought home. A Princess pumpkin and their version of a scary face.

So we had two more cute pumpkins to add outside!

A shot of our front door Fall Decorations.

Seth's Shower

Some of my sweet friends had a baby shower for me last week to help me prepare for Seth's arrival. I had a lot of family come in town for the shower and a visit. It was a great shower and I was given some cute boy things for him!! We can't wait to meet him and add a boy to our family full of girls!! We are getting ready for him to be here soon and I'll put pictures of his little room up soon when it's completely finished. It has been fun to get ready for this sweet baby boy!

My sweet friends, the hosts!

Some of my family that came to town for the shower.

Gabby wanted a picture of her 3 granddaughters! We each have 3 kids and only the first and last out of 9 are boys-ha! That's a lot of girl drama-just ask our husbands!!

Some pictures of the cute table decorations! Including hand painted pumpkins with his initials! The food was so good! I have great, creative friends that can really cook too!

Baby Bump pictures-probably the only ones I'll take or post!

34 and 32 weeks!

Memphis Memories

We spent last weekend in Memphis, probably our last family trip as a family of four before Seth's arrival! I had some work to do in the area so we decided to make a full weekend out of it. We spent time with Josh and Sarah, went to the Memphis Zoo, went on a horse and carriage ride downtown. We had a great time and the Fall like weather made it a perfect weekend to be outside for most of it. Here are some of our pictures from the Zoo and carriage ride. The girls loved it all, they loved all of the animals at the Zoo, and even thought they were in Cinderella's carriage:)

Our little family of four-but not for long!

Josh and Sarah were with us most of the time since they live in Memphis. The girls had a blast with them and talked about them for almost a week after we were home!!

The hippos, Ella and Sophie were fascinated.

The monkeys here were very entertaining: If you can tell by the picture below, the small red head was a baby monkey that several of the bigger monkeys fought over most of the time we were watching them. Then they ran away from each other with that small baby monkey hanging on for dear life!

Sophie told several people about the monkeys that "take that baby away from his momma and ran away and jumped with him" it was so cute in her little voice to hear her tell it. I should have recorded it!

The panda bears were another big hit!

So were the Carousel and the elephants...

The Memphis Zoo was very nice and big!! We will have to go back again!

We had to sit and study the maps before the big day!

We had a great weekend and Uncle Josh and Aunt Sarah even kept the girls for us at their house one night so we could sleep in at our Motel, can't get too much sleep lately! It was a great little trip!

Hog Season

Tadd and I spent the weekend in Fayetteville with friends for the Alabama game. It was probably the most exciting and tense game I remember going to. We stood up for almost the entire game and it stayed exciting until the end:( We had a good time with friends and the kids stayed home with Coach and Gram. The guys hung out before the game and tailgated. Some of the girls spent that time shopping and eating:)


The boys had some important people beside them while tailgating, Jerry Jones and some of his enterauge (sp?) pulled up in a Dallas Cowboys Bus and some of his group ate and played Baggo with them during the day.



Even though the girls stayed back I had them dressed up in some Hog clothes to support the team!

Here are a few shots of Ella posing before School.


Sophie being her silly self in her Hog clothes.

Sophie shopping

Here are some cute and funny pictures I took of Sophie and I shopping. I mentioned in a previous post that shopping is how we adjusted to Ella being gone at school all day:) We are also getting ready or baby Seth's arrival this way! She has a thing for shoes! She and Ella are both very excited about having a baby brother. We are getting his room ready and having fun with it and shopping for boy clothes too!

Sophie thought she needed to try on some rain boots that matched her clothes

and some shoes with monkeys on them...she loves monkeys and has recently been calling people "silly monkey or monkey head" Not sure where this came from but she really keeps us laughing!!

Here she was laying out some clothes she thought that Seth needed:)

Being her silly self!

She loves wearing her back pack and carrying it with her like her big sister Ella!!

So Long Summer!

It's hard to believe that Summer is basically over! The pools closed yesterday and I put up swimsuits and cleaned out some closets all night-nesting must be in full swing-ha! I was looking through some pictures of our Summer and here are several cute shots. Our Summer was pretty hot and long but filled with lots of fun including: swimming a lot at Longhills pool, many Magic Springs trips (until the 100 degree weather and humidity hit!), two fun Beach trips, slip n slides, grilling and eating outside, and many more memories!! It's hard to believe that next Summer I will have one more baby in tow for all this fun!!