Lots to catch up on...

like the whole month of November minus Riley's birthday. I did manage to find time to post about that. A few days before Halloween two of my besties came into town for work, so we had a girls night. It was much needed. Lacey, Linlee, Allyson and I had dinner at Lime and just sat in this booth and talked for about four hours. It was great. No cutting up food into little pieces and no interruptions! Bliss. Allyson refused to be in a picture, so she took this one for us. A few weeks later was Jeremy's birthday. I managed to snap this picture of him with the girls and the cinnamon rolls that he baked himself. I stuck a candle in one and we sang to him. He was thrilled. You can tell by the look on his face:) Happy 31 to you Jeremy! We love you!

On a beautiful Saturday we had a mommy/daughter day with Samantha and Georgia. We started off playing at the park. Besides playing on all the equipment they ran circles on a little path I don't know how many times. It's amazing what entertains a three year old!

After the park we painted pottery. Riley picked out a butterfly box for all of her jewels and Georgia a piggy bank. Riley loved this and could have done it all day.

The finished products.

On this day Riley had been wearing her faux Ugg boots and the fuzzies were stuck to her toes and therefore ended up in the bath water. She did not like it one bit. Poor thing had to stay in this position while I grabbed my camera. It was too funny not to document. I wish I could remember the words that came out of her mouth.

Aunt BB gets baptized!! She wanted it to be a private, so we met at the church on a Monday night to support her. She was sprinkled when she was younger, but just felt like it was something that she needed and wanted to do! We are proud of you BB! We had dinner at the church afterwards and Travis announced that they were expecting. What a great night. I am so excited that Riley and Endsley will have cousins close to their age and so happy for BB and Trav. I love this pic. Mike looks like he has wings:)

The weekend before Thanksgiving I headed to the big city of Lebanon for a girls weekend at Linlee's. These are some of the girls that were in my pledge class at UT. It was fun to catch up.

We celebrated Thanksgiving in Gallatin on Sunday of that weekend. This was the only pic that I managed to snap that day. Riley refusing to smile.

The night before Thanksgiving Anne and Brent came to visit along with Brooks, Leigh and the kiddos. Here is Anne playing with the kids. I could just imagine what was going through her head with four children under 3 in the house. 2010 is upon us...it's the year guys!

Houston and Riley after their bath. Riley said to houston after they got their pj's on, "Houston, you're so soft and clean." I know he feels like a big boy in that pink kitty towel!

Houston and Riley with their little sisters

The next night was Thanksgiving at Tony and Phyllis'. Mom made cupcakes for the little ones. Here are Riley and Cole chowing down.

Nonna, Nanny Endsley and Endsley

Endsley's first Thanksgiving!

This is a position that Endsley often finds herself in. This was Riley fighting Anastin over her. Riley, Cole and Anastin playing under the table

The night after Thanksgiving we went to Reed's moms house for a little get together. There were a bunch of kids packed in that house along with all the adults. Here are most of the children.

"Brents friend", Anne was Mckennon's surrogate for the night. Leigh had to go back to work the week of Thanksgiving. Bummer.

Brent said, "watch this...I can make her smile." Way to go!

Endsley, Ben and Mckennon

Riley, Houston and Lainey

Riley and Brent

Meet Sparkles! He showed up the day after Thanksgiving. My aunt gave this little tradition to Riley two years ago. This is obviously the first year that I thought she would get it. I put his box under the tree and waited for her to notice it. When she saw it, she was like, "Ahhh. Look Ashlee. What's that under the tree?!" We opened it and she named him sparkles. I think she chose this because one of the names suggested was Markle. Who knows! He has been showing up all over the place and she is so excited every time she sees him. I think it's more fun for us than it is for her. Jeremy asks everyday if I remembered to move him, if he hasn't done it himself.

That's all I have for November. It was a good one!

Riley turns 3!

Today at 11:45 a.m. Riley turned three years old! I am going to be one of those moms who says that time flies way too fast. I feel like I say it all the time, but it does! We celebrated yesterday with a "bounce" party at Jump Zone. She asked for this party and has been so excited for weeks. When we mailed the invitations, she would ask, "Where are all my kids?" She didn't understand it was a few weeks away. She told me all she wanted from Santa was her birthday party with all her kids. No presents!

Riley ready to go in her #3 shirt.




Loving it!

Addison and Riley getting the party started

Endsley sporting a cupcake for her big sis!

They had stuff for the little bitty ones to play on

Nanny and Paw Paw made it to the party

Endsley wasn't hurting for any attention

She went for a slide down the fire truck and loved it. The smile on her face was hilarious! Gigi with Endsley

Some of the kids

Aunt BB and the birthday girl

A group shot. We are missing a few. It's hard to get twenty kids to sit still!

Endsley and Henry getting in on the action

Her awesome Barney cake from The Sweet Life. It was seriously delicious.

Everyone singing happy birthday. She was eating it up! Look at that face!

Dawson almost got to the candles before Riley!

With all her little helpers opening gifts And she's done! Poor CeCe wanted a pic with the B-day girl so bad. This is what she got!

The actual birthday! We spent the day going to church, lunch with family, decorating the house with lights, back to church and then more cake! We put candles in the leftover cake and sang happy birthday.

I don't know why but I am emotional over this birthday. One and two didn't bother me. I guess it was because she was still such a baby. She is a little girl now and that makes me sad. Just yesterday she was a baby and now she runs around singing "All the single lits (ladies)" and "Party in the USA". Oh me! Happy birthday, baby! I hope your bounce party was everything you wished for! I love you SO much. I don't know what I ever did without you!

6 months

Endsley is now 6 months and 5 days old. We are half way to eating cake at her 1st birthday party! This is all going by way too fast. I felt like Riley had been around for a long time at this point in her life. Not so much with this one. She still feels very new to me. At her doctor visit she weighed a whopping 14 pounds 14 ounces! She's a little peanut. She received one vaccine. I am choosing to space them out. Although, the four of went back the next day and got the h1n1 vaccine. I was totally against this and after hearing several horror stories about people from here I went with it. Hopefully we won't grow a sixth toe or anything:) Here is our sweet girl sitting up. She sits unassisted for a few minutes and will then topple over.

She has also found her feet. She loves sucking on those toes!

Her personality continues to grow. She found her voice last month, but is really putting those vocal cords to work now. Riley has her moments with her. If Endsley is getting too much attention the jealous side come out. Sometimes for no reason at all she will make her cry and when I ask her why she is crying she will say, "I hurt her, I mash her." Several spankings and time out have been required lately. She calls her "sis" "sister" "sweetheart" "precious" and I can't remember what else. At the moment she is showing her how to fold the socks that I need to be folding! Love you sweet girl!