Happy 2009!

We rang in the (early) New Year at David & Nicole's house with Emma and Griffin. The kids had fun playing with the clackers and wearing their New Year's hats. Griffin's favorite had to be the poppers, though. Thanks Nic, or as Griffin like to call her, "Ms. Cole"!

The kiddos "cheers-ing"!

After dinner and playtime we headed home but had to get a little more clacking time in. He was delirious by this point!

Happy New Year!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Believe it or not I got NO PICTURES of the actual Thanksgiving meal at Mimi's! We were all too busy stuffing our faces to stop and pose. I did get a handful of the boys at the golf course. (Or as the boys like to think of it "Mimi's backyard")

Griffin could not wait to finally try out his new Spiderman clubs. Between work, the time change and the weather this was the first time he got to use his birthday present! Excitement would be an understatement.

This lesson lasted all of 2.5 seconds before "I CAN DO IT" was yelled over and over until Daddy got out of the way. I have a feeling we'll have many more pictures like this in the future--with the same end result, of course.

Next stop was Nana's house to visit with the rest of the family. Holidays can be very busy for us and involve A LOT of running around due to all of our family being here in town. I try to think of it as "If the only thing I have to stress about is to make it around to see all the family--we're pretty lucky!" (Remind me that in about a month or so, ok?)

4 Generations!

The happy couple who travelled all the way from VA to be here with us. We are more than thankful that you made it.

I'm sure you guys wonder where I get my picture taking craziness from. Well--here you go. We are picture taking fiends on the Fewox side. Have camera, will cheese.

Uncle Chuck obviously does not appreciate the serious business of taking pictures. I was looking through the snapshots and thought his face in this was HILARIOUS. He snuck in the picture, none of us had any idea he was lurking back there.

We're thinking about getting Andrew some Tinkertoys for Christmas ;)

Aunt Pam surprised Griffin with a special present in preparation of Christmas.

A pirate ship ornament!! Griffin was SO excited!

Thank you Aunt Pam!

By then the tryptophan had started to kick in so we all headed home.

Taking a rest before it was time to put up the Christmas tree...

but that's another post altogether!

Thanksgiving playdates and parties!

On Monday we had our playgroup's Thanksgiving playdate. Griffin and Walker had school so we missed a lot of the "play" but got to enjoy the yummy food!

Happy kiddos! Ava was only up for 10 minutes or so before it was naptime so I didn't get any shots of her! Brycie was the wildchild who didn't sleep for once! I will say shortly after this picture was taken she went down for a nap and somehow slept through the crazy racket below:

These last two are actually pictures from Deanna's blog but I loved them so much I couldn't resist posting them!

This is my life summed up in one picture :) Thank you so much for catching this moment Deanna, it's one of my favorite pictures ever of me and Griffin.

Tuesday BBMS had it's Thanksgiving feast. Griffin was excited to show off his pine cone turkey centerpiece.

Two little turkeys :)

Some of Griff's classmates. They refused to sit still so I got about 10 blurry shots!

The turkey lost an eye in all the jumping.

Next up? Actual Thanksgiving!

Part 3 of our crazy Halloween week!

So I cheated a little and changed around a few dates for easier posting. Keep scrolling down and you'll find four new posts. And hey, let me know if you're reading by dropping a comment!

What a busy day already (and we haven't even trick or treated yet!)

Today at school we got to paint pumpkins and eat cupcakes! Griffin really seems to enjoy painting but I think it may have something to do with the mess it creates.

Come to think of it, the same thing could be said about cupcakes!

After school we rushed downtown to get our pictures taken in costume by Studio S and visit with our friends. We had a hayride and games but we were too busy to take any pictures of it.

Shew, is Halloween over yet?! I'm exhausted! ;)

Part 2!

On Thursday we had our traditional pumpkin carving party at Nanny's. Griffin "helped" by getting the pumpkin seeds out and overseeing the carving. We couldn't have done it without him!

Helping Nanny with her witch.

Telling Mama where to carve for the pirate ship with Daddy overseeing as well.

The finished product!

Hopefully the ship will last through the week so we can have it at Griffin's birthday party!

Happy Halloween from the Blounts (even Maddy!)