Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent Thanksgiving at Tara's house. We had a huge crowd: my parents, Tyler's parents, my Aunt Jeannie and Uncle Bob, Derek's brothers and sisters with their families, and Derek's parents. We had a really good time.
Zuri really was having a good time, she was tired...it was bed time.

All the girls-(from left to right:Erin, Jenna, Zuri, Natalie, and Addison)
Uh Oh, Zuri spotted the computer. She thinks she is a big girl, she loves to 'type' on the computer.

We are so blessed!!! I love my life. I am so happy!!! I so thankful for Zuri, she is truely a blessing from God. I love every day God gives me with her. This Thanksgiving was a great time to reflect on our many blesseings.

I love you Zuri Kate!!!

Jaxon's Birthday Party

Jaxon's 5th birthday party was at Toadly Fun. It is full of inflatables. They had one specifically for 3 and under. Zuri had a blast! She was all over the place. However...she almost got buried in it. She was the only child on it, she was in the castle. Tyler and I were watching and playing with her...all of a sudden I saw the trees start to go down, then the dragon...of coursed I yelled for Tyler to get her out, he had to climb in and get her from the castle. As soon as he pulled her our the entire castle collapsed. She would have been fine, even if it collapsed on her...but it scared me,and I'm sure it would have scared her if she was buried in it...but she just laughed as if nothing was wrong...I swear she is not scared of anything! They said that with all the kids that had jumped on it, it got pushed off the blower...I think they need to fix that :) Regardless, she has fun!!!

All tuckered out!!!

What's New

Well Z will be 10 months on Friday... I will post more pictures of her then; but here is a little update of what she is doing. She is still not walking, but is still pulling up and holding on to things to walk. I don't really want to rush her because that means she is growing up. She will hold your fingers and walk, but has no interest in doing it herself. We went for her flu booster today and she weighs 16lbs 6oz. She is saying daddy all the time and started about a week ago saying mama...but I just heard her say it a few days ago (I guess she only says it when I am away because she wants me :) ) She loves to drop things and say 'uh oh'. She knows when she sees a dog, she will say 'da, da', I guess it will be awhile before we completely get 'dog' out but she at least knows what it is. We have Tinkerbell right now and every time she seems her she says, 'da, da'.,,who knows if she is really saying dog...I like to think so :) This age is so much fun she is constantly exploring and learning new things. I love her so much and love being her Mommy.

Uh Oh...Mom Caught Me

Zuri absolutely loves pulling things out of bags, boxes, drawers...anywhere she can. She decided tonight that while I was washing dishes she would get me a towel. She got me several towels. She was really enjoying herself, I just couldn't make her stop. Besides its just a mess. If I stopped her from making every mess she tried too, that is all I would do...it doesn't take that long to clean up, and she was having fun...what was it hurting, right?

Best Buds

Zuri and Blakely are having so much fun playing together. Aren't they so cute!!

Happy Halloween

We had so much fun with Zuri on her first Halloween. We started the day off going to Zuri's friend, Ana Grace's birthday party, she turned 4. Then we ran home, dressed up and went to Trunk or Treat for our church. Zuri really enjoyed watching the children in their costumes. Then Nana K came to pick Zuri up because it was getting chilly. Zuri went to see another one of her friends, Walker. Unfortunately, Tyler and I had to stay at Trunk or Treat so we were not able to visit Walker this trip; but from the pictures it looks like they had a blast. We had so much fun and can't wait to share Zuri's first Thanksgiving, Christmas, and then... her 1st Birthday!!!

Zuri was Peebles, wasn't she adorable :)

We stopped by Nana and Papa Swain's to take some pictures with Zuri's cousins, Addison and Jaxon.

The whole family was supposed to be the Flinstones...I finally convinced Tyler to be Fred and when I went to get the costumes for us, it was going to cost $80. I refused to pay that much for grown adults to dress up...so I was a lady bug (my wings are on my back...you can't see them) and Tyler was a Hunter....how original, right?.
Sweet baby Parker and Sweet baby Nolan were adorable Tigers. They were so good while we passed out candy to the Trick or Treaters

Zuri and Walker seemed to have fun playing together. The last time Walker saw Zuri she couldn't do much but sit there. In both pictures it looks like they are saying to each other, "what in the world are you doing?"

Don't they make a great couple :)