Trick or Treat!

We took our little golfer to Granny Hokies first..

Uncle Al was there and Chatham got a dump truck!

Then it was off to Gram and Poppy's....

Amidst the tootsie pops (for other trick or treaters) Chatham got a slue of Elmo gear, and snoopy (hasses ("glasses")

The Cadwallader's stopped by for some loot to.

Chatham was so in love with the new tractor Gram and Poppy got him he just sat on it to open his treats from his friends.

I think all in all Chatham loved Halloween this year. He helped Poppy handout suckers to all the kids who can to the door, and only held on to Poppy's leg (for dear life) a few times.

Another trip to Tweetsie....

This time with the Daddy's....

Everything was decorated for Halloween

We rode some rides and of course the train




Suzy and I even posed (in the sun) on a horse

It warmed up once we got off the train and we had a great time! We got our season passes for next year, and can't wait to go back and do it all again- maybe next year Chatham won't be quite as scared of the ferris wheel next year.

Pumpkin Carving

HAPPY HALLOWEEN WEEKEND!!!!
Wednesday Night we had the Cadwallader's over to carve some pumpkins- please excuse how redneck our house looks with boarded up doors and more cars than any one house should have in the driveway!

The men did the carving and then the mom's and kids dug right in.

Suzy and I used stencils for our witch and ghost.

Devin was feeling a bit more artsy and freehanded his flames.

As I was finishing up my witch the first of several tornado warnings am across our county. So sadly Chatham's pumpkin didn't get carved but he liked the silly face I drew on his. He likes to point to it and laugh.

I was VERY proud of my witch! So here's a closer look at her.

Newton Night Crawl

Saturday I ran another 5k

I even got Toph to run with me!

I have been training for 8 weeks now and Toph hasn't run in 11 years......I only beat him by 1 second!

(not looking my best- this was just over 2 miles in to the 3.1 mile race)

We did well- came in 98 and 99 out of 158 people- our time was 36 minutes and 25/26 seconds. (that is 1 minute and 24 seconds faster than my 5k 3 weeks ago) So I was quite happy with the results.

We had some pretty awesome cheerleaders too though! Devin and Suzy sat outside of Artist Cafe (a local restaurant that happened to be along the course) and as we approached the cheered and snapped a few pictures for us.

Happy 19 months!!!

Wow- what a big, silly, loving, wonderful, handsome, fun, caring, perfect (to me) son you are!!!!!

You have an infectious laugh and love to play! "O-sides" is your favorite place to play- you like your tricycle, bubbles, and of course Utball.

I think you've hit a growth spurt because you ask to "eat din-din" about every 10 minutes and ALWAYS have some sort of "nack" in your hand. You still call drinks "dukes" and have formed a new love for cucumbers.

Acters (tractors) and loons (balloons) are your favorite toys. and you love to read your animal book to yourself or have Daddy or I read the find teddy on the train book to you.

We love you so much!!!