Happy Thanksgiving!

 Oh the holidays are here and I just LOVE it! We had such a fun Thanksgiving break!! Thanksgiving started with this sweet little Indians musical at school. It was on a Monday, but I managed to block my schedule so I had just enough time to make it there and see him sing! He did great! At first, he kept saying "Mommy!" and waving to me, but then he started singing. :)

 So cute!!

 After the concert, they had a feast of muffins and fruit. This is his sweet placemat he made.

 I didn't have time to stay for the feast, but I am so glad I was able to see him perform! Love that little guy!!

 There has been a lot of activity going on at our house construction wise. The guest house, new fence, and a new firepit. The kids have obviously watched the building, so they decided they were going to build their own firepit. First, they needed some brick.

 Then they got the mortar wet.

 And finally, they started stacking.

 Not bad! The next day was freezing!! They wanted to test out their pit so we put some wood in and lit it.

 Waiting for the wood to catch fire.







Then we had to see how it was for smores making. It worked great!

 Thanksgiving this year was a little different. We weren't able to spend it with family, so we decided to host a Friendsgiving! It was a great time! Although we missed our families, these friends should be called family anyways. Here are the boys with the girls. :)

 I bought ornaments for all the kids to paint. They really got into it! Here is pretty Mary getting ready to paint hers.

 Concentrating so hard!

 Sweet Gracie. She tells me she is going to marry Beckett. :)

 Beckett working hard!

 Beckett's masterpiece! Beckett is in a stage where he won't let me pick clothes out for him anymore. He only wants to wear a couple tshirts and this Lightning McQeen shirt is one of them. Not the ideal Thanksgiving outfit, but oh well!

 Jackson's masterpiece :)

No Thanksgiving can be perfect! Little did we know as we were crafting, the dogs got in and ate half of my beautiful apple pie :(

 Friendsgiving 2015! We the Longacre/McMurry's, Eubanks, and Wonders over for dinner and the Moffett's and Foster's joined us for dessert. Perfect day!

 The next day it was time to go to Home depot to pick out our trees!! I can't believe it is almost Christmas!!! This is Jackson's new picture pose. Too cool for school!

 Christmas time!

 That night our plan was to go ice skating on the new Marietta rink with some friends and then all come over to our house afterwards for pizza, smores, and hot chocolate. Well, it was 72 degrees so everyone decided we should wait on the ice skating until it was  a little colder. We still had the pizza and smores though!

 A little smokey but sweet friends. We love our new firepit!!

 The next day it was time to cut down our Christmas tree at the Christmas farm! Here are the boys with their saw trying to find a winner!

 The boys really wanted a tree in their room, so this year we have 4 Christmas trees!!!!!! The funny thing about the farm is that it is very difficult to really judge the size of the tree. It seemed reasonable until we got it in their room. Oh well!








We had a pretty dull saw this year, so the boys had to really work to get it down!

 This kid cracks me up! He can entertain himself anywhere! Notice the clothing both my kids are wearing. I had cute Christmas tree cutting outfits for them, but they weren't having it! Beckett chose his 2nd favorite shirt...Batman.

 Thank goodness daddy is strong! He had to haul both trees all the way back to the car.

 We me the Konops and Chavers at the farm and the kids had a blast running around playing.

 Picture shenanigans.

 I'm not sure how this came about, but we decided to take out tree family photo cirque de soleil style this year ;)

It's not easy getting these kids to pose anymore! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We are looking forward to all the upcoming fun holiday traditions! We are also getting super excited to celebrate the boys birthdays!

Happy 40th Daddy and 91st Big Granddaddy!!

 Happy 40th Birthday Daddy! It is hard to believe that Greg has turned 40! He doesn't act a day over 21 :). I decided to try to plan a few surprises for Greg's 40th. A month before his birthday, I started planning a surprise birthday party. It is not easy keeping a secret from this man, so I had to get creative. With the help from our friends the Postons, we told Greg we were heading to Traton Homes for a charity event. I invited over 100 of his friends for food, drinks and dancing. I was so excited that his favorite local cover band, Brother Whitlock, was going to be able to perform. As we got closer to the date, he started to get suspicious, so we had to try to throw him off. Chris was awesome! The plan was we were going to go get a drink at the Postons before heading to the charity event for a quick appearance. We were then going to go downtown for dinner. Chris had a driver pick us up so it looked like we were really going downtown. He sent Greg silent auction items to bid on and he had nametags made up. After all of that, we threw him off enough to really surprise him. It was awesome!!

 I think it is a true testament to the kind of person my husband is in that he had so many friends wanting to celebrate his big day with him. His friends from high school, Ben and Andrew, flew in from Florida and his medical school/residency friend, Mike, flew in from North Carolina. Such a special night!

 The next pics are just some of the people that were there to make his day so special :)

 My besties :)

 Our trainer and friends BJ and Billy came :)

Such a fun night!!







I had the place decorated with pictures of Greg growing up. Thanks Noni

All Greg really wanted for his birthday was a Jeep. I tried to play it off that I couldn't buy him a jeep, so I gave him a jeep themed party. :)





As we were all gathering around the cake to sing the birthday song, Noni, Granddaddy, Jackson and Beckett arrived with Daddy's 2nd surprise.





The boys were so excited to surprise their daddy! They absolutely love the jeep!

Surprise!

I think he liked it :)

Time to sing the birthday song and blow out all those candles! So glad the boys were there to celebrate with us!!

 The next day I set up a golf game for Greg and his friends. It was a little drizzly but they made it through the game! They then came home to play soccer with the boys! Whenever Greg, Andrew, and Ben get together, it is 1 competition after another. It is so crazy to see my kids now getting into the mix!

These guys have been friends forever! So glad they were able to make the trip for his big day!!

Two cuties! The festivities didn't end there! We then had all the cousins over to our house to celebrate another special man's 91st birthday!

Great Granddaddy and Peebo with all the great grandkids! The theme of the party was "91 and still not done!" Keep doing your puzzles granddaddy! It's working!!

The whole crew! So thankful we were all able to get together to celebrate such a special man. We love you Great Granddaddy!

Getting a little help from his great grandchildren! There were 91 candles on that cake!

Aunt Kiera and Courtney helped the kids make this sweet family tree with their handprints. So cute! Happy birthday Great Granddaddy! We were so happy to be able to celebrate with you! You are one of a kind and we love you!! Can't wait until our next visit!! XOXO