Thanksgiving Weekend...w/ Lots of Pictures!

We have had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, enjoying food, family and mostly for Jack and I lots of time with Daddy! Now, there are a lot of pictures so if you are interested keep going...I'll try to keep my words short.
We began Thanksgiving morning playing indoor soccer with my siblings and some friends, this is where Jack got to stay... blocked by folding chairs. It didn't last at all and one person had to stay out to watch him.

Our Family at Thanksgiving dinner!

Enjoying POTATOES! YUM!

My sister Becky

Jack and Mommy at dinner.

After dinner we relaxed in the living room while my very talented sister Becky serenaded us, Jack wanted to join the fun.

So, aunt Becky let him.

So one of Andrew's greatest friends and Jack's name sake Davies has been an intern in DC and flew in for Thanksgiving so Friday morning we headed up to hang out with him. While I was getting ready I looked down and found this...

At Davies house, playing with Uncle Davies toys!

The last little while we have realized that Jack loves Elmo. It started with being at Walmart or Target and passing the toys, we would push the button on some talking Elmo and loved watching Jack's response. He also has a book that he loves about Elmo which makes noise. We found a DVD, that Jack loves. Elmo will talk then it goes to real kids and back. Drew and I have found that he will only pay attention when Elmo is talking and then go back to playing when he is gone. It is pretty funny. I don't feel like we have pushed Elmo on him but he has more naturally started to like him. It is fun to watch him know who Elmo is! Here is him at Walmart today watching a talking Elmo.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are even more excited to Christmas! Hope Everyone enjoyed there weekend too!

Twilight!

Before you make judgements listen to the whole story. Yes, I am a Twilight fan, I really like all the books and have always known I would want to see the movie. I figured I could wait, take my time to see it... plans changed of course when Thursday at 4 I get a call from a friend in my branch wondering if I wanted to get tickets to the midnight showing. At first I was a little hesitant, if I go to a midnight movie, home by 2 or 3 then Jack up at 6! Yikes! However, something inside me was super curious. Maybe it is the fact that the last 9 1/2 months since Jack was born has been pretty void of anything spontaneous, or maybe it was the 16 year old girl in me that just was dying to see Edward, so I said YES! So at 10:45 Jeni, Tesera and I headed out for Twilight! MOM"S GONE WILD!!
Here we are readily awaiting the movie (Me, Tesera, & Jeni)

I can't tell you how much fun we had. I have decided that I will list my favorite things...Here we go:
1. The fact that 10 minutes before midnight, theater workers came in and gave away prizes. Prizes for costumes, for Twilight apparel which weren't all just teens. In fact there were at least 3-4 old enough to be my mom ladies in the mix.
2. The fact that when they asked, "Who's favorite character is Edward?" Everyone screamed while the 3 teenage boys there BOOed!
3. The fact that there was Twilight trivia...which thankfully I didn't know many of the answers.
4. This lady pictured below. She was given a prize for being the oldest woman there. 60! Sixty years old and at a midnight showing of Twilight? That is what I want to be like at 60!

6. The fact that 5 minutes into the movie someone pulled the fire alarm and luckily it went of within 3 minutes or I'm pretty sure there would have been a rumble.
7. The fact that I had set myself up to be royally disappointed and really wasn't disappointed. I actually liked it!
8. The fact that all day today I have kept thinking about it, and am now going to Stephanie Meyer's Website to read the 200 some odd pages she has posted of the Edward addition.

What a wonderful night... Just us mom's out on the town enjoying pretending to be 16 again! Luckily we each have are own Edward Cullen, even though all three think we are ridiculous! :)

Looking Back...

I really wanted to post this sentimental, however after literally 15-20 tries of uploading these pictures this is what I got...
This coming Friday the 14th, 3 years ago, Andrew and I began our journey. Today for a nice Sunday afternoon activity we took a walk down the street to this tree (sorry I had another picture of it...I guess the trunk is okay). This is one of the first places Andrew and I ever spent one on one time together and where on November 14, 2005 Andrew asked me if "He could be my husband forever?" (Always thinking outside of the box). We took Jack there and played in the leaves. It is crazy how time passes. On that day nearly 3 years ago, I honestly thought I couldn't love Andrew more, however, the love that I have for him now is just indescribable; it grows more and more everyday.

I love this picture. This is (kinda) where we began and now look where we are. I can't even imagine what we will become. I love my little family!

(Oh, yeah for those of you that don't know I cut bangs)