Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving, Grammie, Poppy, and Uncle Davide came to Houston. We even got a family picture in....barely.

Caroline with her turkey shirt.

Getting ready to eat and Deacon is not in a picture mood...notice the bottom lip.

The table set and ready to eat.

Deacon and Daddy playing online before lunch is ready.

Uncle David carving the turkey.

Halloween

On Halloween night we went to Copperfield Church where they had their Trunk or Treat. Deacon was a pirate, as usual, and Caroline was a fairy princess. Daddy agreed that Caroline could be something different than a pirate so Mommy decided to go girly while I can. :) Plus it was too much fun making her flops and bow to go with it.

Those poofy flops make me smile....and a cute baby wearing it all helps too.

Caroline and Pawpaw. He took her over to pet the animals at the petting zoo, but couldn't get Deacon off of the boat to go with him.

He did get off of the boat to fight Seth....a pirate and a Jedi....who would win that battle?

Daddy taking a quick break for a photo opportunity.

Daddy aka Captain Red Beard at work. He built a pirate ship, yes a real pirate ship that is 25 ft. long and had the youth pirate band playing on it. Captain Red Beard also built in some fun for him with an air cannon that shot candy out at the kids. Deacon never left the boat the whole time we were there and it was the hit with all of the kids. They would crowd around just waiting for the next shot of candy. The funniest part to me is that for at least the week after whenever we went somewhere in town I would hear kids whispering...look it's that Pirate Red Beard.

Caroline and Mimi walking around.

Caroline and Pacey....two little fairies.

Pumpkin Patch

We went to a pumpkin patch at a Christmas Tree farm in early October. They had a train ride for the kids and lots and lots of pumpkins....it turned out to be a really hot day so we had to opt for shorts and sandals to go with their halloween shirts.

Caroline loved the pumpkins. She wanted to push them all over the farm that day.

Deacon thought that they made great seats and just wanted to run from thing to thing at the farm.

Deacon and His New Woman

This is Deacon and Hannah. The 2nd day of school, I went to pick him up and as we got Deacon's backpack I heard someone crying. It turned out it was Hannah all because Deacon was leaving and that is where it all began. The next week we went to pick him up and thought that we were seeing double, until we discovered that Hannah is an identical twin...nice my son is already going after the identical twins his Dad is quite proud.

Today was Hannah and Vannessa's birthday and so we went up to the Woodlands to their party at the children museum there. Little did I know that he would end up being the guest of honor. As soon as the girls saw him, both were so excited and saying...Deacon, Deacon, Deacon. Then their Mom explained to me how Hannah really has a crush on Deacon and always wants to know where Deacon is. Once it became time for opening presents, they opened Deacon's first. After they got done they came over and gave Deacon a hug...or at least tried to. As they were walking over their Mom was instructing the Dad to take a picture of this...and Deacon was running circles around me trying to get away. To top it all off, one of their grandmothers came over and asked what my sons name was....when I replied Deacon. She said Oh that's Deacon and then gave a little smile. I'm a little scared to see what 16 looks like if it is getting this serious at 3!

Caroline Walked!

I had the kids out in the cul de sac playing. Caroline went over to the grassy part and was crawling around. I was talking to another neighbor, when I looked over and she had decided to stand up on her own and then just took a couple of steps. She fell down, so I stood her up again and she took a few more steps. So strange that she decided to walk on some of the hardest terrain to balance on!

Some of Caroline's 1 year Pics

I could only upload 2 of them since the file sizes were so so big, but here are a few of her 1 year old pictures. There were lots of great ones. I used Rushing Moments Photography....I highly recommend her!

Caroline's 1st Birthday

Caroline and Uncle David playing with her balloons.

Please Mommy just let me eat and stop taking pictures!

Cupcakes. I made the cupcakes and frosted them. Tommy made the fancy treats to go on top....great teamwork!

We decided to get fancy and these were yellow cake with strawberries in the middle and strawberry cream frosting....yummy.

Happy Birthday!

Deacon's Dinosaur.

Yum Yum.

Caroline's kitchenette.

All of the family that made it to the party.

Caroline's 1st baby her name is Baby Stella.

4th of July

This was Caroline's crab crawl. It was her solution to get around on the concrete without walking.

We had lots of fun playing with fireworks. Deacon chased us around the culdesac with snap n pops.

Popping a party streamer.

Mimi and Caroline in the back while Pawpaw is grilling.

Pawpaw and Caroline. Caroline LOVES watermelon!

Deacon in his chair waiting for the fireworks to start.

Caroline and Momma watching the fireworks.

Caroline got tired of the fireworks and decided to help herself to some more watermelon!

Daddy and Deacon take a quick pic during the firework show.

Caroline 9 Months

I decided that this time I would try taking the pictures myself. So with a little help from Mimi this is what we came up with.