Rock City Lights...

As a family we went to see the lights on a lookout mountain at Rock city. It was freezing but the kids had fun. Plus it was free ! We used Stacy and Danny's family pass, can't beat that.

Some were not so happy as we waited to get hot chocolate... :)

Sweet baby :)

Garth Brooks Concert....

Garth Brooks did a series of benefit concerts in Nashville. I got tickets for my sister and her husband and our friends Brad and shelly. It was soooooo FUN ! We had awesome seats about 15-20 feet from the stage on the floor.

Ready for Santa...

Presley and Knox have been all about Santa and the elves. They are super excited about Santa coming and trying really hard to be good. The "elves" actually brought them a present early :). We got a wooden swing set that is usually $400 at Walmart for $50 on clearance !! Super steal. We have yet to put it together yet since it has been so cold. Presley had asked why her cousins have an elf and she doesn't so here is my wonderful answer :)..."Well sometimes Pres when kids are really naughty during the year santa needs to send them an elf to remind them that Christmas is close and they need to be good". Presley says, "ya, I have been really good this year". And I can't disagree. After the first few weeks of school she got into the swing of things and has been doing great. She had all blue marks for the month of November so we took a trip to Vegas for Toddlers...you know, chuck e cheese. She earned it and they had a blast.

What ?!?!

Wow...these kids can say the funniest stuff...

Knox: "Dad can I have a mint" (Holding a hand full of spaghetti noodles)

Bry "No"

Knox " Give me a mint right now dad or I will kill all of these noodles " (squeeze)

Christmas Gifts

Every year we have done a charitable act/gift with our children at christmas time. This year I came across "Operation Christmas Child". First you choose a boy or girl and then the age you are willing to buy gifts for. We chose children the same age range as Knox and Pres. Boy 2-4. Girl 5-7. You fill a shoebox with age appropriate toys and a few hygiene items. The boxes are then shipped to 3rd world countries. The kids had so much fun picking out the gifts to go into the box. Knox really wanted to keep the toy tractor but with some explaining he was happy to see it go to a little boy who would love to have it

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Thanksgiving...

This year we were finally able to have a Thanksgiving with my family :) Bry and I have always been on our own when it comes to the big holidays with the kids since we have lived so far away. Well the last one we shared with fam I was pregnant with Knox. We had fun up at my sisters house and my grandparents came in town. It was a beautiful fall day that we enjoyed with too much food.

I made this yummy looking Ginger Bread Triffle...too bad I didnt add the spices in the making of the ginger bread. It looked yummy but didn't taste so good :(

Sweet baby Janes...

Here is another post about our sweet baby Maryn Jane. It seems as though she is getting a lot of her own posts lately. Maryn was really sick for 9 days. 9 days of a fever 102 +, she was so miserable. So here is the run down of the last 2 weeks. I took Maryn in for a follow up with the Dr. for her pinkie nail on monday Nov. 1st. While we were there she noticed that Maryn had thrush in her mouth and around her mouth. Weird since she is 14 months and not nursing. She started the Nystatin and it was helping a ton. On tuesday she started running a fever and wasn't sleeping through the night so I took her back on thursday and found out that she also had developed an ear infection. She started Amoxil on thursday night. She ran her fever all through the weekend and I took her back to the Dr. on Monday morning and her ear infection had cleared but she still had thrush. The Dr. sent us over to the hospital to have some blood work done. They called that evening and told us that we needed to take Maryn to the ER and get a Rocefin shot since her white blood cell count was pretty elevated, just in case it was a bacterial infection that could get in her blood. So off we went at 6:45 and while we were there they did chest x-rays, flu test, uti test, a rocefin shot, and lots of poking and prodding of baby Janes. She was miserable. While we were there her fever was 102.6. We left a little after 2:00am. On tuesday she still had the fever but it was down a little. We started on Omnicef. We called the Dr. back on wednesday when she was still running a fever and the other Dr. called Bry back and said that the mono test had come back negative but that Maryn's SED count was throught the roof...106- when normal is 20. So she def had something going on that on thursday they needed to do another blood draw and if her WBC and SED were still high that we would need to meet with a disease specialist. So now we were starting to freak out ! On thursday morning her normal Dr. called and Maryn's fever had subsided so she didn't feel it was necessary to do the blood work until monday. She think maybe a really bad sinus infection ?! WHAT ?!?! Well if that is all it was thank goodness, but wow ! What a miserable week and a half for our baby girl !