Happy Birthday Mimi!!!
Well, first thing is first! Happy Birthday to my mom....Mimi to Madeline and Timothy!

We are all looking forward to heading down to Tennessee next week when we will get to spend some time with you in person, but in the meantime, the kids have some creations and a birthday message to share.

We love you so much, and have lots of birthday hugs and kisses to deliver once we get there!



The kids have been busy this week! Because of teacher conferences (which went great for both of my kiddos!) Madeline and Timothy had a short school week. Timothy had no school Thursday and Friday, and Madeline had half days. We took advantage of the extra time to spend some time together....jumping on the trampoline for a good hour one afternoon. That's a workout!
We went to Burger King with some friends Thursday at lunch. (Take note of the absence of french fries.....)
How is it that in a restaurant with a playland all the kids land in front of a TV?
Well, they did play some =)
We brought AJ and Olivia back to our place and played with play-dough, watched a movie, played Wii, and half a dozen other random activities.
We even went bowling as a family Saturday night. Mmmmm....bowling alley pizza.
What a ham! Madeline had a lot of fun bowling.....she did pretty well. Sometime she used the ramp to roll the ball, sometime she used the bumpers, but sometimes she wanted to just go for it with no assistance. (This of course resulted in a lot of fouling and just flat out dropping of the ball.)

Timothy thought he was quite the little muscle man, lugging his ball around himself. He had a hard time adapting to bowling in the real world. After becoming a pro on the Wii, he wasn't keen on the gutter balls he was getting in reality!

Time out for a hug!
And one last picture....
Looking forward to seeing many of you over Thanksgiving!

-shannon