A run in with the Law (s)

The In-Laws that is. Ha...I've been waiting to use that title. We had a great visit with Bunny and Pappy this week. The excitement level was through the roof at our house with the grandparents here and all the Halloween festivities to go along with it. They made it to the annual halloween "parade" at Mary's preschool. Allie had a party as well...and Garrett just couldn't contain his excitement, so he slept! Have a very safe and fun Halloween everyone. I myself will be missing it...WHAT?!!! Yep, I'm skipping town. I'm signing out, and Em and Adam will be at the helm. If you see them pop up on the blog don't be surprised. The hubs and I are going away for the weekend courtesy of the best sister/brother in law TEAM on the planet. THANKS Em and Adam...ya'll have fun now ya here!

Lets go for a ride

On a horse???? NO it was just crazy hat and crazy sock day at school last Friday. Allie picked out the cowboy hat topped off with a ski hat and was acting like she was riding a horse for the pic.....too much excitement for 7 am in my opinion. The excitement for the day is in the video below. The hubs has been home in the afternoon since he's working evenings, so Allie had to go through bicycle boot camp last week. After a few tears and "I don't want to's", she was off and going. Yesterday was the first day where she actually started herself without a push!




I think Mary was "barking" at a neighbor dog in this clip of Allie riding her bike.



The rest are just random things I haven't had time to post!



Garrett's first play day with our friends from church.



Monkey see Monkey do...just thought this was a funny pic of Mary and Little Lion.

Last night we had a cookout with our small group. The kids rode their ride on toys, ate hot dogs, and cooked smores. Look at all those missing teeth!

S'More please!

Pajama Party!

Tonight was cause for celebration!!! The hubs has been working 6pm to 4 am this month, and after a rough couple of weeks he has 5 days off!!!!! Yea....the nights are hard without him and we miss him terribly....so we had a party because he'll be here tomorrow night!!!

Road trip!

Nothing like hitting the road on a beautiful fall day....the smell of fall in the air, one or two leaves are starting to turn, "She hit me, my turn to pick the movie, Garrett pooped again!" Ha..it wasn't so bad! This marked a milestone for ole Mer...my first solo road trip with all 3. They really did great and were so excited to go see the grand and great-grandparents, cousins, and friends. A road trip with 3 doesn't hold a candle to flying solo from NY with terror toddler Allie in tow! We went to the football game to see the Eagles play Friday night, spent Saturday am with Memaw and Deda (my sweet grandparents), and spent Saturday afternoon with Beth Ann and her kids at the zoo. Dad cooked a steak dinner for him and me on Sat night and we had a "quiet" dinner with my kids, Anna Kate, Jones, and Laynie! Mom was merely catering a dinner for 120 people, but somehow managed to squeeze everyone in. She was hardly even gone! Anna Kate was able to keep up with us most of Saturday, but we weren't able to see much of Mason and co. due to the heavy involvement of Amber and Emily in their 10 year class reunion. Just wanted to share a few pics.

Fall, friends, and fun

This week was filled with unexpected play time!! Whohooo. It was unusually slow in fact. Allie was out of school on Monday, so we ventured out to the Lion's Den that afternoon. She and little Lion had not played in sooooo very long, and they had the best time together. Little Pumpkin was especially intrigued by Garrett and she seemed to be torn between staring at him and playing with Mary. They all had a great time together. Mamma Lion was much better about getting more pics, so scoot on over to her blog if you have time.

Not sure about that pose Allie is making!

They loved the teeter totter. Little Pumpkin is fearless.

Who's this kid??? That is my dear friend Sarah Gara's little boy. Sarah I know your married name and your kid's name, but I don't know if you'll let me post them yet or not! Hope ya'll made it home safe:) Their visit was an unexpected treat. We spent much of Tuesday with them and had a "quiet visit" since the girls were at school. I can't believe we didn't get any pics of us.

And that's her newest baby girl. She has her hands full...but doesn't seem to be phased.

There's Mary's pal, "My camel" (my campbell). We managed to squeeze in a pop in play date for the girls since Emma Cate was in the neighborhood, but Mary looked around and started screaming, My Camel....and he was in the car screaming.. MOO MOO!!! Amy was hesitant, but agreed to let him out to play! ha! He was so funny and charming as usual. Mary can actually keep up with him!
It was very hard to get a pic of these 2 together...too fast.

Just a funny pic of the 3 of them tonight. Garrett is not as impressed with whatever it was they were laughing about!

Give me FIVE!

5 MONTHS! Yeah. Now that we've got Mary locked in her room, we are all sleeping great again. (don't worry after a couple of nights, she quit trying and is sleeping until 7...for the first time in MONTHS!) I don't know how much he weighs, but he's quite the steam roller. He can hold himself in a sitting position for just a couple of seconds, but he's not too far from doing it alone...especially if he could be still. He is constantly moving as most boys do, but Allie was the exact same way. He laughs ALL THE TIME. He thinks everything is funny and is quite ticklish. We've tried cereal a few times, but who has time for cereal? We may just wait until he's ready for waffles and pizza...sounds like a better plan to me. He's catching up with his lamb!

If you haven't figured it out, he looks just like Allie.

Peek-a-boo!

It won't be long until he's tackling the girls.

I remember seeing a picture of my nephew Zach a few months ago just like this. I thought, we are so far from Garrett doing that in the swing. NOW we are already here. He can't grow out of it this fast! We are too attached.

Doggy Bag

This sounds like a scary post, but you'll figure it out quickly when you see the picture. Mary has a new strange attachment to these dogs that came out of a Barbie toy. Why do "they" make the most annoying tiny little toys for little kids these days, and on top of that, WHY OH WHY do they tie every little piece in the box down with wire, so that it requires 25 minutes to get the darn thing out while the kid is standing in front of you yelling, can I have it, can I have it. Sorry for the ridiculously incorrect run on sentence. I just couldn't stop myself. So for a month, we've been trying to keep up with the mamma dog and her 3 baby dogs. Mary wants to take them everywhere including the bed in which case the baby dogs fall on the floor behind the bed, and you see where that leads us. I decided to make Mary a Doggy Bag to carry around her precious treasures. Tonight, I said, "bed time Mary", and instead of saying, "MY DOGS???~!!!", she said, "MY BAG!!!!!???" because she didn't have the bag to put her dogs in. Do you think it's safe to let her sleep with a plastic bag???? Hmm...don't worry. I'll remove it once fast asleep.