Our Newest Member, Thanksgiving and Dylan

I'd planned on doing a post for each of these but as its almost Christmas and I'm just now getting around to recapping our Thanksgiving it'll be July before all our Christmas is up so hence the all encompassing post :)

I'll start with Thanksgiving. We went home for the entire week and it was nice having the time to really relax and enjoy our family. The boys had a great time soaking up all the grandparents spoiling ;)

While we were home I wanted to take some fall pictures of the boys for our Christmas card so we took them to the train station in Opelika. They were not super cooperative and it was pretty cold but I managed to get a few keepers!

One of my favorite parts of the entire trip was meeting my newest nephew Dylan Alan Baker! He is such a cutie pie and a very sweet baby! Well, just see for yourself!

And last but not least I'd like to introduce the newest member to the Stinson household....

CALLIE!!!

All Parker asked for for his birthday was a dog. We kept telling him we can't have a dog right now being that the house is on the market but when we move we'd talk about getting one. Weeellll...my sister decided that she wouldn't be able to keep their dog after she had Dylan so Bobby and I discussed and thought we could take her even though we're in crazy circumstances right now. I'm SO glad we did. She is the best dog and the boys are HEAD OVER HEELS in love with her. Carter gives her about 20 hugs a day and Parker tells her all kinds of things as if she's human and knows exactly what he's talking about. They're really so sweet with her and I think the feelings pretty mutual!

Cookies with Mrs. Claus

A friend of mine took her little boy to make cookies with Mrs. Claus last year and ever since I saw the pictures and heard her talk about how much fun it was I was DYING to take the boys!  I knew Parker would love it but I wasn't quite sure how Carter would do.  We had a great time but I think I may have overestimated Carter a bit, well just take a look for yourselves.

They were decorating the boxes! Can you see Carter about to get into his cookies? I had to quickly stop him only to have him act like...

...this for the majority of our visit ;)



All was well again when Mrs. Claus came around and said he eat the frosting off his cookies with his finger.







I'm not sure Parker knew what to think about Mrs. Claus :)

But what I do know is he had a blast decorating and...



...eating his cookies!

I'm so thankful for my sweet friend Julie who to took/let me take the pictures in this post!  I'm not sure how it happened but when I got to the shop the battery in my camera was completely dead.

Even though the cookie making was a little harry, we'll definitely be making this a yearly tradition!

Washington Square

I've been looking for a new place to take picture of the boys so a friend told me about Washington Square. I was looking for a park or something that had some of those beautiful fall trees I've been seeing around town and while the square didn't have any trees like that in it, there were a couple in the yards surrounding the park. The houses lining the park's boarders were beautiful. I just LOVE old southern homes and this square was in no shortage of them. It also had some beautiful oak trees with low swinging branches that Parker had a blast hanging from. I really didn't even plan on taking any pictures while we were there but I grabbed my camera on the way out just in case! Take a look at some of my just in case shots! Although I love the way Parker looks in these pictures I must confess, I tried something new with my camera when I took these pictures and I'm not really sure why but they came out a little grainy. Needless to say I won't be using that setting again ;)

Around and around

Ring around

the rosie,

pocket full

of posies.

Ashes!

Ashes!

We all fall

DOWN!!!

Hodge Podge

This is going to be a hodge podge post if there ever was one. Nothing too exciting has been going on around here other than we FINALLY put our house on the market!!! I'm excited and rather nervous about keeping everything nice and clean for showings but I guess it'll be what it'll be!

Since that's pretty much catches everybody up on our lastest and greatest I thought I'd leave y'all with a few, okay several, new pictures of the boys!

We've had some good times at the park,

Made some faces that I LOVE,

Gave a few super heroes a run for their money,



And a even snuck in a wheel barrow ride!

I guess with normal fun like this who needs too exciting :)

Trick or Treat!

We had a very busy but super fun Halloween! We're in the process of getting the house ready to put on the market so most of the weekend was spent doing odd jobs around the house but we did take some time out to dress up and get a little candy. We got the boys in their costumes and took them to the Kid's Fest at Cottage Hill Baptist Church. While I think they had a good time, there was so much to do and I think they got a little overwhelmed with it all so we came home and did a little trick or treating at a few of our neighbors' houses.

In case you can't tell Parker was a shark and Carter was a scuba diver! After looking in a magazine with Parker to get an idea of what he wanted to be he saw a shark costume and fell in love with it. When I saw one at TJ Max I just had to get it for him! Then the trouble came of what to do about Carter's cosutme. I knew I wanted them to coordinate but I was having a really hard time coming up with something when Bobby said "what about letting him be a scuba diver". I thought it was a great idea but knew I'd never be able to find one in his size so Bobby and I made enitre costume ourselves and I think it turned out pretty darn cute. We even had someone take a picture of Carter at the Kid's Fest and tell us we needed to enter them in a contest of some sort, LOL!