HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

We had such a great Halloween. Caroline was fired up the entire day.....in fact, she layed in her bed for an entire hour at nap time and never fell asleep and never stopped talking to herself the whole time. We finally relented and got dressed up. We started trick-or-treating about 3:30 in the afternoon and did not get home until about ten pm. We hit the family members first (which if you know the size of my family, it took awhile) and then went on the two great parties. Caroline played so hard and loved trick-or-treating. She was very good about yelling Tick or Teat!! and saying thank you. She was also saying "Best Niiiiii Ebberrrr!!!!! (Best Night Ever) She and her daddy went on a long hayride and she ate TONS of candy. She was probably the dirtiest I have ever seen her by the time that we got home but it was well worth it. Here are some pic in random order and even a few from last year just to compare.....(I sadly did not get any pics from our last get together because I could not find the camera...I finally found it this morning at the bottom of Caroline's pumpkin candy bag.....maybe someone will send me some!)

TrUnK oR tReAt!!!

We took Caroline to Trunk-or-Treat at our church recently. She got to wear her Raggedy Ann costume and looked adorable. She loved getting to see all of her buddies dressed up and really loved getting all of the candy. We then went inside and ate and played all kinds of festival games. Caroline expecially loved the cake walk....she played until she won a chocolate pie which we took to Granddaddy. She also won a prize for her costume. Can't wait until next year!!!

Carving at the Coulters

The Coulters have been busy carving our halloween pumpkins this week. We didn't get many pictures..my hands were too messy from cleaning three pumpkins, but we did get a few.

During the process....

And our finished masterpieces......

DADDY'S ALABAMA "A"

MOMMY'S GIRL JACK-O-LANTERNAND CAROLINE'S DORA!!!!! SHE IS OBSESSED WITH THIS PUMPKIN..TOO BAD ITS ALREADY ROTTING......

Pumpkin Patch 2009!

Some friends and I decided to take our girls to the Tate Farm Pumpkin Patch this past Saturday. Besides it being the coldest and windiest day of the year so far, we had a blast. It was absolutely freezing so we did kind of hurry through, but the kids got to do almost everything. We somehow did not manage to make it home with a single pumpkin! Oh well.....maybe next year.

The kids were so excited on the way there....hehe

We loved the petting zoo part..they had bunnies, puppies, pigs, goats, and a llama.

We played on the playground equipment and walked around....LOVED playing in the corb cribs...Took a hayride out to the pumpkin patch and picked out pumkins (that we were too lazy and too cold to carry back in and buy)...

And tried to get one group shot before we headed home...this was the best we got!

Best Friends

Callway Gardens

Granddaddy took our whole family (Mom's side) to Callaway Gardens for a Labor Day Weekend get-away. There were 17 of us, Dan, John P., Dave, and Kate were the only ones missing. We really had a good time, only a few hairy moments, which is pretty good with that many family members. After a long trip down on the backroads, Granddaddy does not like to drive interstate, and a even longer check-in process, we visited the butterfly exhibit. It was pretty but really, really hot. We let the kids run around outside of it and all watched the Bama game that night. The next day we ate a buffet breakfast and then we split up and some went to FDR's vacation home and Ginny and I got to spend some incredible time at the spa getting massages and pedicures (thanks Mom and Dad) Later we all spent the afternoon at the beach, and my child had an absolute blast. She lept running into the water full speed and flopping in. We also played in a jump jump and slid down an inflatable slide, ate sno cones, and watched hot air balloons fly over our heads. Then, all 17 of us went to the lodge for dinner that night. Some of the pics:

GO DHS!!

We recently took Caroline to Decatur High School's annual tailgate party before the first home football game of the season. She loved it and even Dan (who is NOT a DHS alum) had fun. Caroline got her face painted, ate dinner, danced to the band, watched the cheerleaders, got a balloon which she released, ate a sucker, got her picture thaken with the raiders, and played with all of her friends.