Thanksgiving in Mentone,AL

This week the kids have been out of school for the whole week to celebrate Thanksgiving. On Wednesday our family along with Papa, Nana, and the Puryear Family (the Coon Family was in NYC) went to Mentone, AL for a few days (thanks to one of Michelle's friends). The cabin was a real "log cabin" which meant COLD. Sure glad we had plenty of firewood (Shawn loves making fires).



Wednesday: We got settled in our home away from home-



Sam Loved his bed !!!

We roasted hot dogs and made Smores for supper.




Thursday: Nana was up early starting on Thanksgiving lunch. So was Sam he was watching for deer.

This was the beautiful view Sam saw from the porch of our cabin.


Daddy and Sam got busy on the turkey they gave him a "shot" of good stuff and then fried it.

We had a wonderful lunch!!




After lunch instead of all taking a nap we decided to go for a hike.




Friday: In the state of Alabama this day is a day that people look forward to for 365 days *IRON BOWL* Daddy stayed at the cabin while we all went to explore the small town.



After the game (AL 26 to AUB 21) we ate at Wildflower Cafe.



Saturday: This was clean up and go home day!!


What a wonderful Thanksgiving Week we have had.

Penny Packing???

Penny wanted to help me pack this morning- I let her pack her own bag of things to play with....


Enough said!!!

Thanksgiving Fun @ School

Sam and Penny have had lots of fun activities this week for Thanksgiving.(Pilgrams, Indians, Turkeys, and Thankful Pie)

(Penny learned an Indian song- Her Indian name was Little Sassy Princess)

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving Week!!

Hanging Out

This week Sam and Hudson has been doing lots of playing after school. He came over to our house on Wednesday, when I picked them up from school (they had there whole afternoon planed out). first- Football;


second- Wii.



They both had a great time together.

Give me a W-I-L-D-C-A-T-S

What you got?? Wildcats!!





We went to watch Jordan cheer for JV basketball team. They did a great job cheering on there Wildcats (even though they came up short of a victory).




Penny was so excited about going and wathcing the cheerleaders (she told me they were so pretty). She was really proud when Jordan let her sit beside her and cheer.



Sam really enjoyed the game and always have to have popcorn during a basketball game.



Great Job Jordan and the other Wildcat cheerleaders- Can't wait to see you cheer again really soon.

Jumping for JoY!!

I am soooo excited that I have finial done it - I have gotten my pictures BIGGER!!!

Halftime and Leaves

During halftime of the AL/LSU game the kids decided to go outside and have there own game.


The Leaves are Falling Down So Try and Catch One... (This is one of Penny's favorite songs from preschool). The leaves are really started to fall around here - faster than we can rack them up. So I decided to surprise Sam from school with a "pile" of leaves. They were so funny running
and jumping in the LEAVES.

Birthday Fun

It seems if we get one invitation for a birthday we get invited to three. Last Sunday Sam had two birthday parties to attend and Penny had one this past week on Thursday. Here are the highlights from these fun parties.

Ben's Party: Halloween Carnival Theme

Dakota's Party: Bonfire/Hayride Theme

Caroline's Party: Dora Theme

Dress Your Door

Look what (Aunt) Michelle made for Penny to put in her room!!! It looks GREAT on her door!!!




If your interested in one of these take a look at her site Dress Your Door. These would make super Christmas presents.

Halloween Fun 09

After Shawn and I got home from Florence we picked up the kids from Nana and Papa's house and made our way home for a quick rest before the night time fun. Every year we go to the Coon's house in Pt. Mallard for the excitement. Mrs. Coon (better know as Poon) cooked her yummy Chicken Noodle Soup and Chili (and yes I had both!!)

This year we had lots of kids to enjoy Halloween: William, Sarah, Emily, and Put came this year to hang out with Sam, Penny, Smith, and Patton.

Patton works all month long to get his Poon and Pops yard ready for Halloween- Sam was so happy this year that I finally let him have a "scary" mask so he could join in on the fun of trying to scare the tricker - treaters.

Can you guess who is who????

Answer: Turner, Sam, Patton, William, and Smith

Look at our sweet princess..



Finally it was our turn to go around and fill our bags with candy. Every time Penny went to one house and came back she would look at me and say "let's go get MORE".

We ran into Callie (The King of Rock-n-Roll) while we were tricker-treating.

I think this was my favorite costume I saw this year!!

The girls were incharge of passing out the candy!!



While the boys scared everyone

Thank you Poon and Pop for having another Great Halloween!!!

After the Parties

we had all our bags packed - Sam and Penny were heading to Nana and Papa's for the night. While Shawn and I headed to Florence. He was running in with a few other of his running buddies.

We thought it would be much easier on us if we went the night before- which was really nice (since I could not tell you when we have done anything by our self). We picked up Shawn's packet and went to our hotel - then off for a nice dinner ALONE!!

Up bright and early the next morning- We made it to the Marriott around 6:30 ready for the day (hoping it is going to stop raining). I decided to run in the 5K while Shawn was doing his 1/2. The race started around 8 and about ten minutes after that my race was under way.(my race time- 28:46). I also won second place in my age group WOO HOOO!!! Yes I am very proud of my trophy!!

Shawn was hoping to have a PR (personal record) on running his 1/2- YEAH!! He did it in 1:49- that is super!!