THANKSGIVING IN ATLANTA

We've made it a tradition of going to Atlanta to spend time with Dave's brother, Scott's family every other Thanksgiving. I love the city of Atlanta so I never complain--plus I love getting to spend time with Scott, Kim and their kids. This year we were lucky enough to have Kevin and Deidre join us too, which made for even more fun. It's always nice to be able to spend a Holiday with family---we don't get to do as often as we'd like for obvious reasons of course.

Kim's sweet Mom treated us to a very yummy, very southern Thanksgiving dinner-and for that we were truly thankful!!! We had a great time chit chatting, playing games outside & of course there was a bit of "shut eye" after the turkey dinner.

The kids had fun just hanging out as they always do. It doesn't take much to entertain this bunch. All you need are a couple of playstation controllers and LOTS of Diet Mtn. Dews haha!!!

Jr. Bucs 2011 Superbowl Champions!!!

Couldn't be prouder of our #24!!!

One reason I love living in the South--Praying always comes before playing

A few of Carson's biggest fans

Carson had an awesome season-he averaged 2 touchdowns per game which was very exciting, but I think my favorite moments were watching him just pound his opponents to the ground. This boy has no fear and has more aggression on the grid iron than I ever imagined. He was definitely born to play football!!!

Here's Carson with just a few of his teammates--he absolutely loved this group of boys and Dave and I really grew fond of their parents. I must say I'm already missing them~

This team lost only one game, won their age division in the Superbowl and walked away as the league champions. Way to go BUCS!!!!

HALLOWEEN 2011

We started our Halloween celebration with the annual Ward "Trunk or Treat"

Evan as "Baby Crockett"

The following day was celebrated by trick or treating at "Scare on the Square". We have the cutest, little town square here in Collierville where most local activities take place. We love it--it has kind of a Mayberry sort of feel.

We ended by heading back to our house for food, friends, and fun. It was potluck--everyone brought a pot of soup and I provided the rest. It turned out to be a great idea and a really good way to get to know some of our new neighbors better.

My zombie, bride, vampire and baby Crockett had a wonderful night. I'm thinking a tradition was started :)

1ST ANNUAL ENJELICA COVE BLOCK PARTY

We have been very fortunate to live in a very friendly, safe, clean, SOUTHERN neighborhood. Within the last couple of months we have had lots of new move-in's, so my neighbor and I decided we needed to have a "getting to know you" block party. We have people in our circle who have lived here for years so it was nice to have a mix of old and new. Mr. Floyd smoked us some BBQ and the rest potluck of course. We had a great time and I'm pretty sure a tradition was started.

HINTON, MCKAY, UPCHURCH, QUICK, REES, CARTER, COX, SHAUL, SMITH, LUCENTI, ROBINSON, JACKSON, SEELEY, MILLER & MRJDA

ENJELICA COVE 2011

FALL BREAK IN THE OZARKS

We decided to head west for fall break....well 3 hours west. I was looking online and realized we had a timeshare in northern Arkansas, up in the Ozark mountains, so we decided to give it a try. It was beautiful but very, very remote....almost creepy remote!!! After a few days of not really seeing anybody we started wondering if we were part of some horror movie. We realized we were in a golfing retirement community where the average age was 80 and with the weather being too cold to golf ---I guess they were all hiding. The highlight of the trip was Sugarloaf Mtn. Dave was so kind to take the kids hiking and let me stay home and just veg for hours. It was a great deal for all. The scenery was beautiful and the kids loved it!!!

With it being so secluded (not even any WI-FI) we learned that we had to make do with what we had. The kids watched lots of movies, played board games, went swimming & ate lots of crap~what more could you want for fall break. Needless to say we had a good time. Carson brought his friend Jarret and we just hope he didn't go home telling his family we're all completely nuts!!!

RED

As most of you already know---I decided I wanted a change so I went BIG!!!! I have NEVER put any color in my hair and one day I decided just to go for it. My friend Amy did it for me for a whopping $12.99 (Loreal from Target). I love it!!!! She did a great job and I really like the color. Thanks Natalie for helping us out on that haha :) I'm not sure how long I'll keep it, but I thought it would be good for the fall and why not??? It's just hair-and it can be changed back plus Dave loves it!!! So for now-I'm a REDHEAD~

Cara's field trip to the Memphis Lichterman Center

This year Cara's class visited the Lichterman Center for their field trip. The field trip was based on animals and the habitats that they live in. Like her mother, Cara was over it after about 20 minutes....until they brought the snake out. Most kids opted out of the snake petting but she hopped right up and was as brave as could be. Cara has a great teacher and a great group of kids in her class-making it a very fun day for her.