Christmas Fun!!!

Here are some recent photos of our different Christmas events. There are some from our trip to Opryland hotel with the Akins. Ty and I had a date to Dinner at Bethlehem at church. Of course I had to include the pictures of the kids with Santa. They did really well. They far surpassed my expectations. I fully expected a picture of two screaming children! The pictures of the cookies are from today. Ty and I made Christmas cookies while Ansley was napping today. He got really into it and was picking out the colors and everything. It was lots of fun. In other news, Ty pooped in the potty today for the first time and Ansley is soooo close to crawling. They are so much fun at these ages. I am enjoying this Christmas so much and look forward to the next week!

Thanksgiving 2007

Thanksgiving was lots of fun this year. We had a great time with family. Here are a few photos. We have so very much to be thankful for!

Random Fun

Well, it's been a while since I posted. We've done a lot in the past 6 weeks. Here are a few random photos of cute kiddos. I have more posts coming. By the way, that was Ty's first ice cream cone!

Trunk or Treat 2007

Last night was Trunk or Treat at church. This is a big deal at Harpeth Hills. I think there are at least 500 people there every year. We have a chili supper and then out to "trunk or treat". This was Ansley's first year and she was very good. Ty dressed up as a monkey, and Ansley was a banana. You will notice in the pictures that Ty has a dum dum in a lot of them. That was the only way I could get him to keep the head of the costume on. I know, what admirable parenting! The good news is that he forgot it was there after the 2nd sucker and left it on the rest of the night. Who's the sucker now? Just kidding. Ty and Ansley were a hit with their costumes and they humored me well. Ansley didn't fuss about her outfit and Ty made monkey noises for everyone. Brian and I were supposed to be dressed for the 50's to go along with our teenagers theme, but our costumes were hurting this year. We had a great time. Here are lots of pictures of the event. Scroll down to see a couple more new posts.

Ty's 2nd Birthday Parties!!!

This weekend was a lot of fun. Although his actual birthday isn't until Thursday, we celebrated Ty's 2nd birthday this weekend. We had two birthday parties on Saturday. It was a full day! First we had a lunch time party at our house for Ty. It had a firetruck theme. We had family and a few of Ty's friends from church. There are 3 other kids who were born within a couple of months after Ty. He recognizes them and likes to play with them so we invited them to celebrate his birthday. We happen to like their parents too!!! It was a beautiful day outside so the kids played and ate out there. I was pretty happy about that. We sat all the kids down at the little plastic picnic table in the backyard with their pizza. Ty ate about 2 bites and got up to play football. Later we sat them down with cake at the table. I came out about 10 minutes later. All the other kids were up playing in the yard. Ty was sitting at the table, face covered with cake, eating everyone else's cake that they left behind. Oh dear, I think he has a bit of a sweet tooth! He was cute, and I think he had a good time. He didn't want to open his presents because he liked the first one so much! We got him to help me open them though, and he has been having a blast with them.

After that party, Ty took a nap. Then it was off to the Petty family cookout/hayride. Their are 4 boys on Brian's side of the family that have birthdays within about 5 days so we celebrated all of their birthdays. It was so fun and festive. We had hotdogs (well, I didn't) and smores and all things cookout. The hayride around Brian's grandmother's many acres was great. Ty loved it, except for when he got smacked by some low branches. The boys all pulled a tractor pinata for candy and got lots of presents. What a fun time for everyone. Thanks to Janet, for spear-heading the event and to Uncle Gary and Aunt Linda for letting us have it at their house. There are lots of pictures on this one I know, but it was hard to narrow them down.