Party on, Wayne.... ;)

Well, this was the weekend to PARTY!!!! :) Our family had a whole lot of celebrations this weekend. It all started Friday after school. I rode over to my sweet friends' house (Sage's & Alana's......aka "Mrs. Cronk"......get crunk, get crunk) to visit with and photograph their newest addition, Adelee Rose. I just KNEW Adelee was going to be a BOY (they didn't find out the gender until delivery). However, she's alllllll girl......BEAUTIFUL girl!!!

Once again, "big brother," Scoutie, had to jump in a few shots...

I truly LOVE this little family.....everything about them!! Sage and Alana have gone through a tremendous, and oftentimes difficult, "journey" to have this little precious girl. I admire them so, and their "story" serves as a reminder to me of how blessed I truly am to have effortlessly had 3 beautiful and healthy girls of my own. Parenthood is a precious PRECIOUS gift that many people (including myself) frequently take for granted.

 We don't always understand God's timing, but His timing is always PERFECT!! Many blessings and LOVE to my pals who are so deserving of this perfect little love-bug!!!

After visiting Adelee, Josh and I headed over to my friend, Tracy's, (aka Mrs. Moore's) house to celebrate my sweet and beautiful amiga VIVECA on her upcoming wedding!! Viveca (aka Senorita Hutchinson) is Nora's Spanish teacher....Nora will have get used to calling her "Senora Edwards" in January. 

We generally hung at the outside fire-pit and watched sports at Tracy's "shack." But we had to keep coming in to grub on the yummy spread of FOOD.

 Beulah BEES know how to do it right :)

Lovin' on Leo....

 Joanne.....the Scarf Whisperer....

Two of my "main squeezes" ....and our hubs off sharing pictures on their phones.....they're kinda like women.... :)

 So thankful to get to celebrate Viveca and Perry.....especially at Tracy's "dump" (I'm kidding of course....Josh might move in over there if I'd let him. She's the hostess with the most-est!!)

The next day, we were off to celebrate McKayla's 6th birthday at her groovy Pirate Party!! (Of course, we had to go as Tech Pirates.....:)

Lea and I never miss a CHANCE to DANCE....especially the "Cha-Cha Slide" :)

Josh loves his mother-in-law :)

Let's see how many P-words I can use: 

A Pirate Princess came to the party. Pirate Princess let the little pirates play with a parachute at the party. Plus, the Pirate Princess painted pictures on the little pirates' faces. Pirate Princess also performed a phenomenal magic show!

 Photo-Op!!

Love these little pirates (with cake all over their faces)...

They remind me of Melissa and I back in the day....

But we're still super-pals (and still super-CUTE) :)

After the Pirate Party, we headed over to Uncle Bug's and Lindsey's to watch some football, eat all of their food (as usual), and enjoy good times with old friends.

 Our kids stick out like sore-thumbs with their GT gear on. :)

 Cannot BELIEVE this baby is standing up!!!

Lyla B. flirting with Josh...

Josh and I always try to find something to celebrate, and that was very easy to do this weekend!! Babies, blessings, birthdays, weddings, friends, family, football......LIFE!!!! :)

Party on, Garth. :)

Halloween Hap-nins :)

Halloween was a little "off" this year.....we were facing COLD and whirlwind weather from Hurricane Sandy, the girls were recovering from colds (and Clairy still had an "iffy" tummy), and Grandmama and Lea also had the sickies. Still, we had a swell time!!

Normally, we have our pumpkin carved about a week before Halloween, but this year, some sort of rodent "had his way" with our beautiful, round pumpkin, so we had to get some rinky-dink pumpkins at the last minute. Therefore, we carved our rinky-dink pumpkins THE DAY BEFORE Halloween. Of course, we had to get homework done first.......here's a little video of my bilingual baby reading one of her Spanish books....

Once homework was conquered, we could focus on the rinky-dink pumpkins. Nora and Ella decorated their's and Clairy's with stickers. They were very proud!!

Then, it was time to carve the main rinky-dink pumpkin. Daddy, Ella, and Nora dove in....

Nora thought it was "wayyyyy, gross!!"

Claira and I hung out on the porch and watched all the pumpkin-action....

However, I did make my contribution by drawing the face of the little pumpkin (ya know, that takes REAL SKILLS!!!)

Daddy "cheated" this year by using his "power-tools" to carve the rinky-dink (if you look closely in the background, you can see our initial beautiful pumpkin that had been violated by a large rodent......and yes, it's sitting on our deep-freezer....that's in the yard.....waiting to be cleaned.....it's all about CLASS and impressing our neighbors this Halloween.) ;)

Our rinky-dink turned out pretty great if you ask me.....ears and all....

The next day was finally HALLOWEEN!!! Here's our witch, the witch's black kitty......

.....and the witch's "magical pumpkin" (head-piece compliments of the pipe-cleaners of one of Nora's FAVORITE teachers ~ art teacher Mrs. Fulton!!!)

Here's our special 3 together......

Off to Grandmommie's & Paw-Paw's we went (and this is one of my FAVORITE pictures of all time....for many reasons).

 I was a deer (again, pipe-cleaners compliments of Mrs Fulton!!! And Clairy-Berry was either really mesmerized or really scared of her little "light-up" ghost).

And Daddy was the deer-HUNTER.....can you see him in his camouflage??? (Holding Matthew and Claira....who had already changed into her pajamas....I so wish I had gotten a picture of both of them in their "pumpkin onesies!!")

And Lilah was a cowgirl.....

Finally, it was time to go trick-or-treating .....

 We ran into Senorita Hutchinson with her son, Christopher (which excited Nora soooooo much), but since I had an "extra bundle" to carry this year, I had to leave the camera at home. :( But thankfully, I got a picture of all of us before retiring the camera for the night....

Happy Halloweenies!!!!!! ;)