HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2009!

This year we decided to stay home bound (with our crazy year of going and going we wanted to stay put for Thanksgiving). I was also VERY up to the challenge of making my FIRST Thanksgiving dinner. I can say I LOVED it and don't know why people stress about it...I seriously enjoyed EVERY minute (okay maybe not clean up). My parents decided to come over for a quick turkey dinner. They came late Wednesday night and left EARLY (like 4 am early) Friday morning. Along with my parents came our VERY important part of Thanksgiving this year....THE TURKEY FRIER!!!

Yes, I truly believe this is the BEST way to cook a turkey!

This was the men's duty while the women finished preparing all the food for the delicious meal!

Look at my cute parents!

We attempted a few family pics but Boston just wanted to play and was ABSOLUTELY NOT willing to take a decent picture....KIDS!!

So we gave in, let him play and got one of just us....like my fury husband? I believe 2 minutes after this picture was taken he was upstairs shaving.....

I swear these kids have a love/hate relationship but when they love each other, its the CUTEST thing EVER! They will literally stand there and hug FOREVER....until they've gotten so excited and are jumping up and down and Boston gets a little TOO excited and tackles Tessa to the floor...

The finished turkey in ALLL of his glory! Seriously, this WAS the best turkey I have EVER had at Thanksgiving!

The FEAST that literally could have fed a small country!

He LOOOOVES his Mimi!

After our massive feast and letting the food sit for a little while, it was PIE time! We had a PIE for EVERYONE...seriously-6 pies for 6 people! Hey, it's THANKSGIVING people! Personally, I'm not a fan of pies (yes, kill me if you must) so I opted out to make the chocolate pie (my 1st pie ever made) which in my opinion was the BEST....that might have something to do with me not even trying the others!

We finished the night with a little dancing entertainment from the kids. Apparently, they BOTH love to dance!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!

LET THE HOLIDAYS BEGIN!!!

WE DID IT!!!!

I can OFFICIALLY say it IS official! We have FINALLY (after 2 previous tries) gotten rid of the binky!!!!! SOOO proud of the little man (and even MORE proud of myself for finally deciding 100% that it was time)! Like I said, we've tried 2 other times without success (for various reasons) and this time, it was do or die! For myself mainly, ALL BINKIES HAD TO BE GONE...OUT OF THE HOUSE...DESTROYED....GONE!!!! Yes, I think it was harder for me than for Boston. I explained to Boston that big boys don't use binkies and that they're only for babies. We then proceeded to chop the binkies in half and throw them in the trash. Boston actually found this pretty exciting....all until he laid down for his nap! He only came out of his room once asking and crying for them but then after explaining again that they were for babies, he went right to sleep and has NEVER had a problem since!!! It's officially been ONE week and I'm VERRY proud of this guy!

Please ignore Boston's new cheesy smile....this is what I get when I ask him to say "smile and say cheese" for the camara!

All cut and ALL thrown in the trash! I do find it funny that I've probably bought 385798790235 binkies over the past 2 yrs and only have THREE left!! Seriously, where do these things disappear to??

WHAT HAS BLOGGER DONE?!?!?

I have NOO idea WHAT happened or WHY it happened (apparently I was an inactive account??) but my blog went major screwy on me and I'm still trying to figure it all out! VEEEERRY annoying! So please don't mind the construction going on...still trying to straighten all this junk out!!

GEAUX TIGERS!!!!!!!

(yes, we've taught Boston to yell those words!)

A few weekends ago (Oct 24th to be exact) we got to make a quick trip to BATON ROUGE for ONE MAIN reason...........

That's right, it's fall people and that means ONE THING-------LSU FOOTBALL!!!!! We called my dad's tickets to the Auburn game this year. Sooooo off we went to enjoy a night in TIGER STADIUM!!!!!!!!!

LOOOOOOVE this place on a Saturday night!

Yes, we put the SMACK down on Auburn! I wish it was a CLOSER win because I must admit I felt it was a boring game BUT hey, a WIN is a WIN!

GEAUX TIGERS!!!!!!

**Thanks Carol for watching Boston for us**

"Tick o Teat! Ummm YUMMY!"

That was the phrase Boston spoke at every door on Halloween! It cracked me up! I should probably be unpacking right now but I am taking a break to post or else it'll be the end of the month before I can get to this!

For Halloween Boston wanted to be his FAVORITE character DASH! Yes, he LOVES him and constantly reminds us, "I DASH!" So I searched and searched and couldn't find one in his size. I should have just bought it big and hoped it worked but I didn't. So between all the packing and moving, I ended up waiting until the Wednesday BEFORE Halloween to find a costume. I was striking out until I went to Party City and found this little jewel....

Yep, he was our little PIRATE! I must say HE LOVED IT (thanks to Backyardigan's episode about pirates...). All night we'd hear "ARGH!!!!" I thought he'd struggle to want to wear the eye patch+earring but HE DID IT and loved every minute of it! I struggled to try and get a FULL picture of him because he WAS NOT having that before we went trick or treating....so I guess you get what you get. I'm learning to deal with that children not wanting to cooperate like you want all the time.....

For Halloween we went to our friend's the Curtis' house to go trick or treating. The weather was PEEEERFECT and although we were worried at first that we weren't going to load up on enough candy, we ended with plenty!

David the fireman, Boston the pirate and Tessa the little ladybug!

I tried all night to get a good shot of the kids together and failed every time. None of those kids wanted me to get a good picture!!!!

We got home after and let Boston enjoy SOME candy before bed then as adults, we sat back and enjoyed a scary movie....I mean common, what's Halloween without a good scare?!?

Halloween is getting more fun each year with Boston! As a parent, holiday's really do start to be all about the kids!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

MY CHILD CAN DO WHAT?!?

We have been quite the sick house this past week. It all started with Kent then to Boston and now I've come up with it! What a mess! I felt the worst for Boston being sick. You feel soooo helpless as a parent. It was funny though because on day two of being sick, he'd get these spurts of energy and then crash 2 hrs later. I'm grateful for those little spurts of energy because I found out that my son new quite a few songs that he could sing by HIMSELF and would get upset if you TRIED to help! THEN he started counting to TEN in SPANISH (thank you DORA) out of KNOW WHERE! I had absolutely NOOOOO idea he could do this! Guess I underestimated my son! Lucky for me, he actually LET me video tape him! In case you can't TOTALLY understand, the 1st song is "You Are My Sunshine" and the 2nd song is "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Apparently he also knows "I Am a Child of God" and "I Love to See the Temple." There may be MORE but nothing has come out yet. I've been singing him all these songs since he was in my belly so it's SOOOO exciting to hear HIM sing them! Love this guy!!

CRUISIN THE CARIBBEAN BABAY!

Last week we were lucky enough to have a little week long getaway to the Caribbean. Every year the company Kent works for takes some of their employees on a cruise and let me tell you, THIS is what gets me through the summer!!

We had 2 1/2 days until we got to JAMAICA MON so we tried to keep ourselves busy. We caught some rays by the pool...

We sang a little karaoke (ME: PIANO MAN...this is a MUST on karaoke night) which Kent PROMISED he'd sing ONE song before the cruise was over....yeah NEVER happened!

We starting a fun little Texas Hold'em game (yes, I will PROUDLY say I WON) which turned into us getting a little TOO confident and turned into us loosing just a little....well a little TOO much at the boat's casino! Yes, we learned our lesson and understand now why you shouldn't gamble. It was our 1st time and we went a little crazy. We came away with a total of $0.00 (yes the casino also decided to also take my winnings from our innocent TX Hold'em game...stupid casino) which taught us our lesson (sorry mom and dad...).

We ate......we ate ALOT! Guess that's what happens when you have UNLIMITED food and can order BLT's to your room at 3 am....

I was excited to see what towel friend we had waiting for us every night. This was our monkey although I think my fav was the stingray.

Our 1st stop was JAMAICA MON where we decided to climb Dunn's River Falls. It was BEAUTIFUL!

Like the necklace Kent was conned into buying?

We have decided that Jamaica was a one time thing. It was beautiful and a fun experience but DEFINATELY our LEAST favorite. Soooooooooo many of the locals try and TRY to get you to buy stuff (I mean they are TEN TIMES more persistant than the mexi's) and then try and make you feel ULTRA guilty if you don't buy. One guy said this to Kent:

Jamaica mon: "Buy a necklace for the lady!"

Kent: "Nah, that's alright"

Jamaica mon: "Common, mon, I know you got the money! Help a poor mon out!"

Kent: "No, we're fine. Thanks though."

Jamaica mon: "Mon, you rich Americans, I know you got like 6 cars at home with 6 wives!"

Kent laughed and walked away.

But SERIOUSLY it's SOOO annoying and SUCH a turnoff. Aside from that, its WAAAY dangerous. In fact, we saw a random fight on the street where two guys were yelling and one was holding a mishedy. Yep, just right there on the side of the road!!! Crazy stuff in Jamaica mon!

That night while waiting for dinner, we got down with the servers. It's sooo funny to watch them break out in dance every night especially to like ghetto music while you're having a nice formal dinner. AWE.SOME.!

Kent started with a beard then shaved it each day to something a little less everytime. He went to a goatie and then to this WONDERFUL handle bar mustache. YEP! That's my man!

Next stop, GRAND CAYMAN (MY FAV BY FAR!). It was ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL and VERRRRY different from Jamaica. No one was pushy, everyone was friendly and it felt VERY safe! I'm DYING to go back!

We were supposed to go swim with the stingrays but due to our late night partying, we ended up sleeping in and headed to the beach and just relaxed. I L.O.V.E.D. every minute of it!

Finally, our last stop was COZUMEL. We'd been here before but it was nice to go back and do something different than before.

We decided to hit up Mexico's deep sea fishing for the day. Was it at all what we expected? No! Not at all. Fishing off the Gulf is DEFINITELY much better (so I've heard) but you live and learn. Some one's gotta teach those mexi's how to FISH!!!

The waves were REALLY big the day we went! Luckily, I took medicine and didn't get sick. JB was throwing up over the edge the whole time. Kent took ZERO medicine and somehow managed not to get sick regardless....I was amazed at that!

I caught my 1st fish from the deep blue ocean....a BARRACUDA!

Kent reeled himself in a BARRACUDA!

In fact, we ALL caught BARRACUDAS! That Mexico fishing....

We were all VERRRY happy to be DONE!

It was a GREAT trip and it was nice to get away a relax and reboot. I will say 7 days was LONG enough to be away from our little man!!!!! We were definitely VERY ready to see his sweet face again!!!

SOME BIG NEWS!!!!!!

I just wanted to clear the air really quickly. I have had some people wondering and spreading word on if there's a little baby floating around in my tummy. The answer to that is.............

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to get things straight and get THAT thought out of people's minds.

I have more posting to come but since we've been out of town, my tivo and house upkeep have taken precedence over blogging! Sorry. More to come soon!