Thanksgiving

I should start out by saying that I'm a slacker and I didn't take one picture for Thanksgiving so sorry about that!
My family went to Henderson, NC this year for Thanksgiving. We weren't able to go so this was my first one without my family. They had a great time and got to see lots of family.
We went to Matt's mom's house on Thanksgiving Day. It was very good! We ate and watched football all day long. (What else are you supposed to do on Thanksgiving??) There were 16 of us there, I think. It was great to spend time with family and relax.
On Friday we went to Grandmother's house. The whole family wasn't there but we got together anyway. It was us, my grandparents and Anna, Brian and Brant. We ate brunch and then all went home to take a nap(except for Matt went to play golf..his new favorite thing to do!). Friday evening I put up my Christmas decorations but I'm saving that for the next post.
Saturday we drove down to Sand Mountain to see Matt's dad and his family. We watched the Iron Bowl(ROLL TIDE!) and ate veggie soup. The guys were supposed to go hunting Sunday morning but it was raining too hard. Sorry boys! We headed home around lunchtime in the rain.
That night we went to Mom's to eat BBQ she brought back from NC. It was wonderful! If you've never had BBQ from there, you are missing out! The guys went to the movies and the girls stayed at home and watched tv and played.
I did leave out one part of my story...SHOPPING! Matt's mom and I got up on Thanksgiving Day to go shopping. She picked me up at 6:45am. Matt's big Christmas present this year was on sale for that day only. It was a GREAT deal and we couldn't pass it up.
On Black Friday, I got up at 5:40am and went to Chattanooga. Call me crazy...I went to TOYSRUS! Yes...yes..I know. But I HAD to have the Little Tikes slide for my baby girl and I couldn't pass up the sale. It took me only 20 mintues to get what I needed in my buggy. It took me an hour and 45 mintues to check out! I was back home by 9:15.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving break. We are so thankful we got to spend so much time with all of our family.

"Dora!"

Jenna has discovered the stairs in our new apartment. She loves to crawl up them. It scares me to death but she made it up, shouting "Dora!" all the way!

Shoe Boxes #2

Mom's office got together on Sunday night to put together shoe boxes. Mom, Andrea, and Ashley made pots of soup/chili and then it was around the table for everyone to pack the boxes full of toys. All the kids had lots of fun running around the big room. Mom took lots pictures...of Andrea! :) And here are some of everyone else!

Shoe boxes #1

Jenna and I went to Pam's(Nan's) house to help her put together shoe boxes on Friday night. We did 6 boxes. We had everything from Beany Babies to toothpaste to pencils to candy. Jenna was such a big help. She put all the soap in ziplock bags. She also wanted to play with all the toys and dump out all the candy. Her Papaw helped us focus on something else for a few minutes!

My Bladder

So something happened to me last night at my mom's house that's never happened before. This never happened when I was pregnant with Jenna. I was headed to the bathroom. I sneezed...twice. And then I had wet clothes.

Thanks to my sister who was home washing clothes I was able to change.

Yep, this is what's happening to me....

Strong Bonds

Matt and I had the opportunity to go to a marriage seminar in Gatlinburg this weekend. It's called Strong Bonds and its hosted by the Family Programs Office for the Army(and Air) National Guard. We weren't too sure about how the classes would be but once we got there we had a blast! The classes were very entertaining and informative. We watched really funny videos, played games, took a personality test, and had fun discussions. There were also some serious times too. They talked about deployments(i cried the entire time), renewed our vows, and talked about forgiveness. We met some really nice people that we'll never forget.

While we weren't in our classes we had even more fun hanging out around Gatlinburg, just Matt and I. We ate at Hard Rock Cafe, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co, and Huck Finn's Catfish just to name a few. They were all fabulous! We shopped lots and walked even more. We went to the aqurium, wax museum, car museum, Ripley's Believe It or Not museum and lots more. I was wiped out after walking my pregnant butt all over that place!! :)

It was so nice to get away just for a few days. Jenna stayed with Matt's mom the first night and my mom the second night. She had a great weekend too!! Mimi put curlers in her hair and she LOVED it!

Here is a clip from a video they gave us.

Lady Bug

Jenna was a lady bug on Halloween(Thanks to our great friend Ashley!). First, we went to Nan's house for dinner and pictures while we waited on Matt to get off work. We got to see Jenna's cousins Leah, Matthew and Hailey. Next we went to the Fall Festival at the mall. She got a little bit of candy in her Dora bag. Then before we went home we stopped by the block party to see Uncle Josh, Mimi and Poppy, Aunt Lindsey, and lots of other friends. Jenna loved being outside with all the music but she hated when she saw people in masks. I don't blame her, some of them scared me too. She didn't like the hat very much. In the last picture she was trying to get it off.