Running Our Race

Since it has been sooooo loooong since the last blog post, I thought I would do a brief recap of the past 4 months in pictures.  Needless to say....we have been busy!  Between the holidays, Caroline's first birthday, many fun visits from family, and just life in general, time has just gotten away from me.  Thank goodness for Emma Grace who is constantly reminding me how behind I am on my blogging!  ha!  Seriously....she is my main motivation to get back on track!  So here we go... p.s.  this may take awhile to get through so grab a cup of coffee... Thanksgiving at our house.  Gina and Bob drove down from Nashville and Val and Cameron came up from Texas Lots of football throwing in the front yard.  The weather was perfect! Like mother-Like Daughter...same cords on!  We are so hip! Some of the kitchen crew:  Gina, Val, Emma Grace, Aunt Linda And a lot of ping pong tourneys - Christopher and Val usually fought to t...

Even though...THIS weekend is just 2 days away....LAST weekend was a blast. Here is the full report! On Thursday....I decided that no food would be cooked by me in the kitchen that night!  So, "Momma decided to eat out"!  The kids and I went early and then Brett drove in from Atlanta and met us at the restaurant.  Here is Caroline at our favorite mexican food restaurant enjoying a tortilla chip!  She keep waving them around shrieking....it was so funny Friday night we went for a great family walk.  The weather here has been perfect and we couldn't stand to be inside.  Here is Christopher and the Pups!!! Saturday:  On a complete whim....Emma Grace brought up the idea of running in the Callaway 10K race.  It is in a beautiful park in Georgia called Callaway Gardens about 45 min away.  She knew of another friend of hers, Sarah, on the cross country team that was running.  All she had to do was ask me...and I was in!!  I love ...

Last night we went to a fall festival put on by Trinity and Greater Peace Church in Opelika.  It was fun! Happy Halloween from Caroline The Chicken!!! Kate having fun "face painting" Dad and his Chick Dad and 2 of his chicks Me and my sweet girl.  I cannot believe she is 10 months old! Caroline and Claire King.  They love each other! Christopher is such a stud! Christopher and his best buddies...Micah and Justin Last week the Kings had us over for pizza, bonfires, and pumpkin carving.  It was perfect weather and their house is so cute for fall.  We loved it.  Here is Jeremy working on the perfect fire. Look at this cutie in her skinny jeans. The girls, Emma Grace, Claire, and Kate started off the pumpkin carving And of course...the boys couldn't be left out. Brett helped Caroline carve hers...ha!  I think they all resemble their respective pumpkins. Ha! This past weekend we tailgated with the normal...