Tuesday, November 20, 2012

He's on a ROLL!

Johnny Mac has started to develop quite a little personality already. 
He is such happy guy and smiles at us ALL the time,
unless he's hungry - and there's no mistaking when that is! 
He started laughing about a week or so ago, and it is the cutest thing in the world.
Usually Maeryn is the one that gets him laughing, although yesterday
when I dropped him off at Ms. Debbie's house (his awesome babysitter), 
she had him cracking up within seconds.
We have been saying for a while now, that he looks like he is going to roll over very soon.
He gets up on his shoulder and just lays there on his side, like he's teasing us...
So last night, I helped give him a little nudge so he would see how it felt
to roll all the way over to his tummy.  He was surprisingly happy
lying on his front (normally he gets pretty mad), and then all the sudden,
he lifted himself up on his arms and BOOM, he rolled right back over to his back!
Of course it was a one-time thing and we couldn't get him to do it again,
despite our efforts and Maeryn's demonstrations...

Monday, November 12, 2012

Family of Four - Fall Pics

Welcome to the family little man, you're one of us now kid!

Click here for some more awesome fall family pics taken by our friend Darci: http://darciallison.blogspot.com/2012/11/hey-darci.html

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Halloween 2012

We actually decided to "decorate" our pumpkins this year... I swear we have good intentions every year but somehow we always seem to run out of time.  Well, not this year! 
It wasn't the traditional carving style, we went with paint this time around.
I think they turned out pretty cool, but maybe next year we'll really do it right!

We entered this first one in to a contest at Kevin's work...
Didn't win anything but I'm pretty sure his peers were impressed so that counts for something, right?


My Alex Morgan pumpkin is now FAMOUS!
I "tweeted" a picture of it to the US Women's National Team yesterday,
and they actually "retweeted" it out to their 135 THOUSAND followers and said they loved it!
Woohoo! 


Maeryn helped paint these two pumpkins and then we added all of the fun accessories!


Kevin and our little pirate Johnny. 
Maeryn  Tinkerbelle was trooper about having to wear the sweatshirt which covered up a lot of her costume... but it didn't hinder her flying at all, so we were in luck there! 
Poor Johnny Mac only got to wear his costume long enough to take a couple pictures
and then we had to bundle him up for the night - man was it COLD! 





Our annual Halloween block party was a great time!
Olivia (Stawberry) and Tink
Addison (Cinderella)
Paxton (Tiger) 
Piper (Strawberry Shortcake) 
Trick or Treating!
We found Peter Pan and Captain Hook while we were out!
The captain must have been camera shy...
he jumped out of the way before I could get his picture.
We are still not quite sure about the "spooky" side of Halloween...
A lot of the houses along our street had ghosts and spiders and skeletons as decorations on and arounds their houses - all the typical scary stuff. Many of them lit up and made noises and some even jumped out at you. Our brave little soldiers did great with all of that - UNTIL we arrived here:
The haunted house on Country Trail Drive.
These people went all out!  Maybe the kids will appreciate it in a few more years...
The morning after...
Johnny Mac still konked out and Maer looking like she is having a halloween hangover!

October 22: 2 Months!

Oops, this is a little late...
I thought I had posted it already, sorry for the delay!

The Sleep Theif!

He actually is a pretty good sleeper, but these jammies are just too cute!



Bring it on Santa!

It appears that Maeryn's fear of large costumed "characters" no longer exists...
So far she is cool with Fred Bird, Clifford the Big Red Dog and now Lala Loopsie!
The big questions still remains... What about Santa?!?!
We shall find out soon enough.