Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We enjoyed a nice, relaxing four day weekend and lots of time with family. It was good to stay in town and not have to pack or travel :) Thursday we had a delicious feast at Nana and Pop-Pop's house. It was great to have most all the siblings in town (missed you Mackenzie!). We ate, kinda sorta decorated for Christmas, played cornhole (Chrissie and I beat the boys!), and just hung out. The girls enjoyed some time away too - saw New Moon, yay!

Today we got our tree and spent the afternoon decorating the tree and house. Hard to believe it's already Christmas time! Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

Catch-Air Playdate

Yesterday afternoon Ryan and I went to Catch-Air. We had a great time playing with our buddies! Here are a few photos of the fun:


Madeleine & Ryan lounging in the ball pit


Cole got Ryan upstairs and play with the really big balls!


Peyton and Ryan in the balls

Pregnant!!

In case you couldn't guess from the title of this post, I'm pregnant!! I'm 17 weeks along, due April 20th!! We are so super excited and blessed!! Not sure yet if it's a boy or girl, should know in a month or so, although we don't think we care either way. Ryan is looking forward to being a big brother... alright, alright, I don't think he understands at all. When we ask about the baby in mommy's belly, he does point to my belly. But of course, he then points to his belly and to Daddy's belly. As we get farther along and my belly gets bigger, I imagine he'll understand it a little more. :)

happy halloween!

Happy Halloween!!

We went to a fall festival with Nana on Saturday

Trick or treat Pop-Pop

and trick or treat to Grandma & Grandpa too

our little scarecrow

visiting Madeleine, the hula girl

Pumpkins with Madeleine

Ryan and I went to visit a pumpkin farm on Wednesday with our good friends Tara & Madeleine. We had a great time - Ryan & Madeleine always have so much fun together, I love it!! Of course, the kids enjoyed the slides and just running around the best. But there was plenty of fall fun too- pumpkins, a pony ride (although Ryan refused to get on!), a pumpkin wagon ride, beautiful fall colors. Happy Halloween!


too busy playing to actually pose :)

so cute! Can't wait to pull these out when they're 15!

classic plastic slide - awesome fun

Taking turns with Madeleine's new bike

Big boy eater

Ryan sat at his booster chair with us for dinner and actually ate everything that mommy & daddy did!! It was so awesome. We all eat together most every night, but Ryan usually eats something different - chicken fingers, fish sticks, etc. But tonight we all ate together and ate the same thing - oven roasted potatoes, carrots, and chicken cooked in Italian dressing. He had a smaller portion of all three and was so cute & grown up sitting there using his fork to feed himself just like a big boy. Don't know if he's really grown up over night or if it's mental since he's two now, but all of a sudden he's not a baby anymore. Still not sure how I feel about that - sad and happy all at once!

Pumpkins!

Ryan had a great time at Burt's pumpkin farm with Grandma & Grandpa one day last week. Sounded like a good trip: lots of pumpkin pictures, a hayride, pumpkin bread, a new pumpkin cup, lunch at El Rios. Hopefully Coleson and I can make it to a fall festival/ farm of some sorts with Ryan, but if not, we'll be able to experience pumpkin season through these pictures! Thanks Grandpa & Grandma!

Suzzette & Chris

Clay, Suzzette, & Jo-Ann

the Chase clan

us!

Last weekend we drove up to DC with Sarah and Maxim for Suzzette & Chris's wedding. It was a long drive, but a beautiful wedding! Everything was awesome and they looked so happy. It was also great to see the extended Chase family for the second weekend in a row! Best wishes to the newest newlyweds!

Tyler & Jennifer!

sneaking in some beach time while in Destin!

Jennifer's bachelorette party

all us kids

my babies!

we's so cute

um... not so cute :)

Congratulations Tyler and Jennifer!! We enjoyed a nice trip to the beach, a wonderful week of fun, a beautiful wedding, and perfect weather! We love you both and wish you lots of love & happiness!

Two years old!

Ryan had his two year checkup this morning. He is doing great, strong and healthy! He is 35.5" tall - 83 percentile. And 29lbs which puts him in the 62 percentile. He has 16 teeth, only 4 to go - his two year molars although they aren't even erupting yet (they may not come in until as late as three). I guess that's all for the exciting stats. :)