Thanksgiving 2010

We got home last night from our Thanksgiving trip to Tennessee with my family!  I love being on our farm and just being home.  The food is nothing to laugh at either!  My stepmom knows how to cook and cook she does!  We have friend chicken, ham, and turkey!  When I called my BFFL to say Happy Thanksgiving, I told her about all this food.  She said, "What is this?  A meat lover's Thanksgiving?!?"  Ha!  What a spread!  Not only is her food fantastic, but she bakes pies... lots of pies.  We had two fudge, two pecan, once cheerio cheesecake, and one pecan caramel cheesecake (excuse me while I wipe the drool off my keyboard!).  Let me just say that we did not go hungry!  I got to visit with my sweet niece, Amber, who is now 22!  How did that happen?  Wonderful family, fantastic food, and beautiful sunsets on the farm.  I am thankful for such a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 He who rules the grandparents house!

She who rules our house... o.k.  she is second in command!

Nothing like a rousing game of High Ho Cherry-o!  Thanks Aunt Lisa!

The grandparents

My niece, Amber, and her boyfriend, Todd, whom Jemma adores!

She takes dress up clothes to make Todd dress up!  They got her the sweet tutu, headband, gloves and necklace for Christmas!

There is no place like home for the holidays.

Happy Thanksgiving!

From our little Indian princess to you and yours... Happy Thanksgiving!

May yours be blessed and safe!  I am thankful for all of you!!!

My first photo shoot that isn't Jemma!

Well, I did it. Not only one, but two!   I conned the neighbors into bringing their babies down for me to take their pictures.  I am taking another class and feeling like I am growing so much as a photographer.  I had so much fun with these sweet babies!  I would love your feedback!  Be honest... brutally honest!

How come rolls like that don't look so precious on me????

A Girl and her Bear

Need I say more?

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Pumpkin Patch

I am a slow blogger, but I wanted to share some pictures of our trip to the pumpkin patch this year!  The BHW took half a day off so we could have some fun family time and fun we had!  We visited the Boone Hall Plantation Pumpkin Patch.  It was a Monday afternoon and we had the place to ourselves!!!  It was awesome!  We picked out two perfect pumpkins, walked through the kiddie haunted house about 76 times, jumped on the giant pillow (all by ourselves!) for about 30 minutes, rode on the wagon and walked through the maze.  All by ourselves!!!!  Last year, when we went, we were joined by about 300 of our closest friends.  :-(  The giant pillow was a mad house so there was no way I was letting my baby on.  It was crazy.  This year was fanabulous (that is my fancy way of saying fabulous and fantastic... my second graders loved this word!)!  Seriously, the place was ours and we had the best time!  By the way, when did jumping up and down on a trampoline thingy get so tiring?  :-)

 Decisions, decisions!

It was about 85 degrees and hotter than blue blazes.  I made everyone wear jeans thinking about hay and getting our legs cut up.   Big mistake!!!  I thought we were going to melt!

Our fearless corn maze navigator! 

Happy above to be in the corn field, but concerned below when a big rumble of thunder boomed!

What a great day!  There is nothing more important than family and quality time together!