Santa @ Pigtails & Crewcuts

This is what happened when Santa walked in to the salon:

Much better once SuSu was holding her:


Jonas LOVES characters, especially Santa:

Jonas' new hair-cut:

Holiday House

Amanda and I after we parked *miles* away from Holiday House.....We looked cute though!

This was after our shopping experience.

After I dropped Amanda off, I returned with my mom for a couple of more hours.

Outline of the day & thoughts of how fun it was......

Lunch with Amanda: $20 (thanks girl!)

Cute shoes: hurt both our feet

Cute outfit: pulled and prodded on it ALL day (that is why I went in jeans the second-go-round)

Vendors: Creative ideas to add to my Project List

Gossip: Couldn't get enough of it

Time with Amanda: LOVED IT! Our minds were racing with all the cute ideas we came up with.

Time with Mom: Always fun and tasted all kinds of sweets that went home with us.

Negative: I have to wait 365 more days for it to happen again!

Will the leaves ever stop falling?

Probably like your yard, ours is covered in leaves. I will be glad when they stop falling. We rake piles (and I mean BIG piles) and then the kids play in them. I captured these one fall, warm day this past week. I hear it is getting cooler so we will miss playing outside so much when the cold weather arrives. You gotta love when the kids stay in their PJ's all day. My kind of day!

Best Frands

Don't you love this picture? This is Kelsie and Reese playing in Reese's bed one afternoon. We love when Bevie and Kelsie come play..... which is usually once a week. Just a shout out to Bev: 1. Update your blog 2. I love our conversations and how we chew the fat more than anyone I know 3. Our bow-making skills 4. Teaching you all about SOUTHERN CHARM :) and the love for monogramming.

Another hair-cut for Reese

I only straighten her hair when I have the intentions of trimming her ends. I did just that this past week and couldn't believe how long it was!

Aunt Jenn's house

Jonas, Brooklynn, and Aunt Jenn


Jason and his sister, Laura


cousin Brooklynn

the kids at the park!

Jason and B

B and Reese dancing on the couch!

Jonas and Jenn

B and Jonas giving sugar!

We visited with Jason's brother Robert, his wife Jamie Lee, Aunt Jenn, Aunt La-La, Baby B, and G'ma Doreen while in good ole Laurel! Jason rented a 15 passenger van for us all to go out to eat and to Target. We had lots of giggles, stayed up way too late, and the kids PLAYED hard. We love you!

Visit with Nana & Pops

This is our new cousin, Sadie!


Nana with Sadie


Pops and Jonas taking a nap.

Pops riding us around in his yard.

Jonas, Sadie, and Reese

While we were in MS, we stayed with the Lozada's on the coast. Thank you for keeping the kids so that I could have some girl-time with my best friends and to let Jason and me go to Homecoming. It's always fun to go home and be with family! We love you guys and will see you in the Spring!

USM Homecoming

Marie and me

Happy Halloween!

We did Halloween on the Hill in Park Hill last Friday. The kids had a good time collecting candy and then digging in it soon after we finished. We ran into the Alston family while we were out trick or treatin'. Jonas, Reese, Corbin (in stroller), Claire, Carson, and Caleb standing behind the stroller.

Monogram It!

More monogrammed items that I have worked on lately. My machine was in the shop back this summer for a month. I was having withdrawals without it. It's so much fun having around!

Say Cheese!

These were just taken this past weekend. Reese is wearing a Christmas dress, but she thinks the trees are ice-cream cones. And does she ever love ice-cream t-shirts. She had one this summer that she insisted on wearing everyday and also sleeping in. I am glad fall is here just so we can get rid of that ice-cream shirt from Walmart! You can also see Jonas' boo-boo on his chin where he fell in a parking lot while riding his tricycle.

What's been going on!

All of this is an update since the last time I posted, in NO particular order!

• Both kids moved up in daycare. Jonas is a Frog III and Reese is a Busy Bee.
• Jonas started back Speech Therapy late August. He is doing great!!
• Both kids are using the potty to pee-pee, but still require pull-ups for the other stuff!
• Attempted to take Reese's paci away but Jason felt real bad for her 2 days into it, and gave it back :(
• Our house is for sale!
• We are going to USM's home-coming in 2 wks! Go Eagles!
• I have gone part-time at work.
• I went to Vegas with a great friend back in August.
• Jason is headed to see U2 as I write this.
• Both kids have started riding tricycles.
• We have a new neice named Sadie.
• Reese fell at a playground and got a knot on her chin. I was about to take her to the ER, but Dr. Becky saved the day! (2wks ago)
• Our family was in town this weekend: Aunt Deb, Aunt Kathy, and Mamaw Dorothy came to visit!
• And the best of all..... we will be in Mississippi in 5 days!

Pumpkin Patch

Here we are at the Pumkpin Patch in Mayflower. It's a great family place if you haven't been this fall. Even though it was cold, the kids LOVED riding the ponies/horses and the small John Deere tractors. We ate a big ole' corndog, looked at the animals and picked out some pumpkins!