A Turkey Break!

Dancing to the "Hot Dog" song on Mickey's Clubhouse, she LOVES it!
Our sweet little turkey!

Not listening to mommy!

Playing in mommy's classroom before school started...

I have started my Thanksgiving break from work for a whole week (til the Monday after Thanksgiving). I am very excited for this break. We don't have a ton planned (which makes it nice) but we do have some play dates to look forward to with friends, spending time together and with our families over Thanksgiving AND some shopping (oh and decorating for Christmas :) I had a much deserved girls night with a friend last night and it was SO much fun! We went to 108 Grille in downtown Franklin. I really enjoyed this place. Ellison is doing great, she has been in the best mood lately and is SO full of her self.

• She will sing "Jesus Loves Me" at home and in the car. She learned it at school. Now she does not actually sing the words but she hums, says baby and does the sign language hand motions that goes a long with the song. We are trying to get it on video. Every time she sings it, at the very end she always claps for herself and says "Yay." It is priceless...


• She recognizes SO many animals whether it is a picture or an actual animal. She can say what it is and makes the noise.


• She will point to any turkey she sees and say "Turkey...Gobble Gobble" (we did this with pumpkins (she says Punkies) for Halloween and we are already working on Santa and Ho Ho)
  
• She is really starting to put 2 to 3 words together when she talks. Like this morning I went to get her and her burpie was on the floor. She looked at me and said "I want burpie."
  
• She can count to three...I know this sounds silly but when I ask her to count she will say, "one, two, three" now sometimes she mixes the order up but she tries to hold up her fingers while she does it.
  

Catch up!

Love Jen!

The boys playing cards...

Ellison giving Owen a kiss :)


She was way too big to get in this thing but it was either put her in it or throw a fit!

The boys and their YUMMY and meaty pizza from Hard Knox...

Jen reading to the babes (Ellison was mad that little Owen was holding the book)

A toast to the mommies!

Ellison playing fetch with Jackson (she calls him "Jacket")

Playing outside in the beautiful weather

Play date/Surprise bday party for a friend at our house=CHAOS!

We have had a busy weekend :) We went to Knoxville to visit our dear friends! The weather was BEAUTIFUL! When we came back Sunday, Connor and I met up with some of his family at Vanderbilt University to watch Ellison's Aunt Alex play basketball. She plays for Lehigh University! We had so much fun supporting Alex and cheering her team on! We have started another work week but I am excited because I have the whole week of Thanksgiving off! I am so thrilled the holidays are approaching, colder weather, Christmas lists, shopping, cooking, being with family and friends! I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend!

Wonderful Weekend!

We had a great weekend! It went by SO fast. On Friday, Ellison and I had a playdate with some friends which lasted most of the morning thru lunch time. Ellison and I met up with my mom and grandmother, we did what we do best...shopping ;) We went to dinner then headed home, we had been gone pretty much all day! On Saturday, Ellison and I ran some errands while daddy played racquetball and did yard work. After Ellison's nap, our favorite photographer (Beth Lessard) came over because I won a free photo session! So she took some pictures of Ellison...she was full of herself, we can't wait to see the proofs! If you go to her website you can catch a glimpse of some photos she took! Then we went to a friend's house for a cookout. We had a blast! We were having so much fun that we ended up putting Ellison down for bed in a pack n play at their house so we could stay later. It worked out great and didn't bother Ellison one bit. Today we went grocery shopping then headed to Columbia for the afternoon to visit with some of Connor's family. Ellison had so much fun playing outside in the beautiful weather!

Checking in!

This week has been CRAZY! So much has been going on and we have been helping some friends out that really needed support. I can't believe it is already Thursday, last day of the work week for me :) I don't really have any updated photos except for a couple. Ellison and I went to visit with some of our dear friends, Ms. Ellen and her daughter Caroline. Ellen and I have been friends since high school. We don't get to see each other much so it was great catching up with them while they are in town. We took a nice walk outside and went to the park, the weather was BEAUTIFUL! Ellison and Caroline are almost exactly 1 year a part! I will update more this weekend but for now, have a great Thursday!

Happy Halloween!

There are LOTS of pictures and I must say that Ellison looked so darn cute in her puppy costume! Or original plans for Halloween got cancelled so we made some changes and had a great day, just the 3 of us! We started the morning at Pumpkinfest in downtown Franklin! Then we came home to eat lunch and we all took naps. We all woke up, spent some time at home carving our pumpkins and then headed to Main Street in downtown Franklin for some trick or treating. It was a blast! We ran into several friends a long the way and Ellison did so good...although she got scared a few times with scary costumes! She is tuckered out in bed while we watch the Tennessee game. We hope everyone had a fabulous Halloween!

Happy Halloween Eve!

Ellison had a fabulous day and is in the BEST mood! She went trick or treating at my mother's work. So she put on her costume for the first time and I must say, she looked precious! I made all of her costume except for the hat. She LOVED trick or treating and showing off. She would say "Trick Treat" and get handfuls of candy from the buckets, place it in her "Punkie" bag, wave & say "bye bye", blow kisses and even said "Thank You." Here is a peak at our precious puppy from today...many more pictures to follow tomorrow from Pumpkinfest and Halloween night!

Wonderful Weekend...

Googey and his great niece!

Uncle Bobo teaching her how to drive

Playing at GJ and Poppy's

Kissing a "punkie" (that is what she calls pumpkins)

We had a wonderful weekend! It was filled with lots of family time! Ellison's Bobo (my brother Jeff) and GUE ("googey" my Uncle) were both in town. So we had everyone over to our house for brunch yesterday and then ate dinner with everyone last night. Ellison and I had a play date with some friends yesterday afternoon. Today we spent time at home because Ellison was (and still is) feeling a little under the weather. Connor was busy doing some landscaping for our front yard...it looks SO much better. He has not tackled since we moved in. We are hoping for a good and well week. We are very excited for Halloween weekend!