Halloween, Thanksgiving and Birthdays...Oh My!

I have been the blogging slacker of all slackers lately. Actually, the truth is the boys have me running ragged. Camden just turned two on the 29th of November and Carter will be turning 4 on the 9th of January! With Christmas conveniently sandwiched in between those two days, the boys are in for an exciting three months.

Camden is enjoying verbal freedom running around the house screaming "mine" and all sorts of other words that drive Mommy crazy. Some of the ones that daddy likes are; hot-dog, eyebrow, Santa Clause and HO-HO-HO, which go right along with the current season. The boys have asked Santa to bring the Leapsters- well, Carter has asked for one but Camden has no idea what he is talking about!

Carter was Mater (from Disney's Cars movie) and Camden was an elephant for Halloween. For Thanksgiving, Dan's parents and my parents came along with my sister Heather and her children and my brother. We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving feast complete with a 25 pound turkey!

For Camden's birthday, we held a 60th birthday party for my Mom as well. EVERYONE came, I mean EVERYONE! It was great. Besides the brother-in-laws, we had the WHOLE Magee, Collins, and Fennel families as well as uncle David and Dan's parents.

We are thoroughly enjoying the boys and love that they are best friends. They keep us on our toes EVERYminute of the day, but time is flying by so fast that we are trying to take it in and enjoy it!

The boys enjoying the last bit of warmth October has to offer.

Camden's famous "OH!" face. This is the result of my saying, "Look! There's a bug on my camera!" to get the boys to look at me.

A ladybug always provides for some wonderful entertainment.

Hayride and pumpkin patch!

Cousin Gabriel enjoyed the day with us as well as Grammie.

Doodie L O V E S Carter.

Pullen Park Raleigh, NC

It's About Time!

August and September just flew by! We were all busy recovering from surgery (Bonnie) and traveling to the beach. Bonnie's friend Amy came up from Atlanta with her two girls to help Bonnie take care of the boys/house after her surgery. While Amy was still here, we all went to the beach and had a wonderful time.

The kids watching Noggin, what else.

The girls checking out their room.

Look Mah! No hands.

LEMONS! Blech.

Checking out the alligators at Myrtle Beach.

THE END

Our nice new blinds! YAY.

Our old, yucky, parrot destroyed metal blinds.

Where's Daddy?

The kids love to hide us with pillows if we dare lay down to take a rest.

Dan and Bonnie Back in the Day....

Carterisms

Carter has been coming up with some pretty cute things lately and I don't want to forget how fun this age is. So, here are a few of his latest Carterisms:

"Mommy, trains don't have feelings...and people don't melt."

(While watching Fraggle Rock) "Daddy, do Fraggles have hineys?"

(After falling and scraping his knee tonight) A small green bird with large talons, named Ramone, pushed him down by tripping his leg causing him to scrape both of his knees.

Pictures from our 4th of July Trip up North

This was our nest at Uncle Rob and Aunt Michele's house. It was super cozy and all four of us fit beautifully, and all with our own beds!

Cousins Kira & John and Jaja

Our pretty little girl...er, I mean boy playing with Kira's hair accessories.

Dan was rocking it out with Metallica on Wii's Rock Band.

We went to a small amusement park while visiting Dan's family in the Cleveland area for the fourth of July.

The boys goofing off at Uncle Rob and Aunt Michele's house.

Dan's brother's family decided to offer Simon a good home so we had to take
him up to Cleveland with us. He rode for 10 hours in-between the boys. Oh, and I case you are wondering, yes we had to bring his HUGE-mongous cage with us. And yes, Dan did make sure that suitcase wouldn't budge in the event of heavy braking.

Our cool dudes back at home.