Opportunity for Service

This is a great opportunity to serve in an easy way! I work with an organization that is a ministry to special needs children and their families. Using the search engine and "shopping engine," after typing in King David Kids in the charity section, will automatically contribute money to our organization. So....set "Goodsearch" as your engine, and search with a purpose!
Happy searching...and shopping!

Facebook has eaten my blog...

Picture this...cute pictures of Addison at Christmas...awww. Cute pictures of Addison and her cousins...awww. Cute pictures of the family. Cute pictures of Addison at Mommy's 29th (yikes) birthday. Awww. Chocolate mouth. Cute pictures of Addison doing cute things. Awww.

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loading. What? Just one picture? Blogger doesn't to load more than one picture? What?

Well, I guess you can check facebook to see the rest of the actual above pictures. I will try to post them again a different day, pending Blogger's cooperation.

Aaahhh. Facebook is eating my blog! Come on, blogger, I'm rooting for you!

Trick-or-Treat!! Wait, what's that smell??

Trunk or treat at the church...(Andy was the hunter, hence the shirt, for our little stinker)


Then, we headed to another Halloween party where Addison spent her time chasing the cats. Constantly.


After getting her costume dirty, and without an extra shirt, Addie got to wear daddy's full size shirt. Pretty cute. Kinda silly with the nose and all.


Awwww. the hunter finally caught him a little skunk.



Face painting. We had to take a picture of it before Addie would let me wash it off. That was a hard transition!


the costume parade at mothers day out. such a cutie patootie group! (I like the skunk, myself:)





Ready to trick-or-treat on Halloween night.


And a tail shot. It swung when she walked. Oh, so cute.


Such a cute little trick-or-treater. We are still working on not going in every house that we approached. She definitely went all the way into two houses (we knew them, but still it was pretty funny!)


Going to show Emmie the monkey our skunk costume.


Moving on to playdough. Of course.


Now moving on to dolls. So fun.


Now a couple of random ones. This is what Addie has been doing during her naptime for the last three weeks. I guess we need to change the name to "rest-if-you-want" time. She doesn't want.


And now pajama day at school. Who could resist this little pajama-ed girl?



Whew. If this girl wasn't so cute, maybe blogging wouldn't take so long. I love her. the cutest word she says right now is "bal-es-spleen". Anyone want to take a guess what that word is?

Tennessee in September!

A little late in the posting, but here are a few of the highlights of our trip to visit Andy's parents at their new house in Tennessee. After riding on the airplane, Addie arrived to find an airplane of her very own to fly/ride around Gran-ma and Gran-pa's house!


Working in the kitchen with gran-ma!


Family pix on the deck in our new Tennessee stuff. Yes, this is the view from the entire backside of Gran-ma and Gran-pa's house. Their house sits on the top of a ridge overlooking the Cumberland Plateau. It's a rough life in Tennessee.


I love Tennessee!!!


In true Gran-ma and Gran-pa style, they had fun stuff planned each day. We did some shopping, went out to eat, got together with friends, rode their boat down the Tennessee River through downtown Knoxville, and even went to sing Karaoke at a place called "Scruffy's." (And yes, that actually happened.) Here are a few shots from the boat ride...
Gran-ma and Addie:)




In front of Neyland Stadium....the Tennessee football shrine. (j/k, we only speak reverently of Tennessee football in our house. I think my sister-in-law would hunt me down otherwise. Love you, Manda!)




Addison is really growing up fast. I figured she wouldn't be driving a boat till she was at least 3.


We stopped right by U.T. and docked so we could take a walk by the river. Addison, of course, found a flock of ducks to feed. Addie the duck whisperer.


She looooved this boat ride!


Yes, this is actually what the river looked like. Beautiful.


Gran-pa and Addie enjoying the ride!


Addison will play cars ANYWHERE. Here is the evidence. Yes, she is actually playing cars while the boat was going full speed. So cute.


Another fun outing we had was to the Tennessee Valley State Fair. It was beautiful and Addie had a great time. Here are a few shots...


Smokey did not fair any better than any other large costumed mascots. We tried. It turned out how I thought it would. Screaming.


Whoa. What is that?


I don't know, but I like it!


Their petting zoo was great.


Even daddy enjoyed himself.


Check out the name on this one.


Gran-pa and Addie in front of the ducklings.


Come here goat. Come here!


The only cow Addie would approach (until the last picture.


She was so excited to pet a baby albino Wallaby. (They had an Australia exhibit with Kangaroos, Wallabys and wallaroos).


Manda and Addie riding the rides.


Addison SCREAMED when the merry-go-round stopped. We had to carry her out of this one:)


As we were leaving, we passed by the Live Birthing Center from the U.T. Vet school where a calf was born about 3 hrs. earlier. It took a couple of times to get her in there, but Andy coaxed her into touching the calf. She still talks about touching the baby cow.


Oh, my fingers are tired from all this blogging. I'm a blogging sissy. We'll see if I have enough endurance to post my halloween pix. If they don't happen today, wait on pins and needles. they will be coming soon.

Catch up time!

Here we go...catch up time begins. I have been busy, Addie has been busy, and Daddy has been busy, too.

First a few silly pix of our growing girl. COOL!


I wanna wear pee-ter dress (pretty dress). She definitely says this every bath time.


Then we were off to Kiera's Hello Kitty 3rd birthday party. Mama Dee with the cousins...


I think she likes the song.


Cake? Addie is always up for anything with cake. Can you tell?


A playdate with Clark. Addison talked about this event for days. She looooooooves Clark. Who wouldn't? Look at that cutie patootie.

Is that Lucy, or is that a big furry brown chair? Yup, that's Lucy. And Addison is definitely sitting on her to play cars. Wow.


I wanna stir. This was fun, making pancakes; however, now anytime I pull a bowl or a pot out, Addison pulls the chair to the island and repeatedly shouts. I wanna stir, I wanna stir, I wanna stir! I created a monster....a stirring monster.


On our way to Tennessee, we always stay with my aunt and uncle, and this night, Addie got to meet her second cousin, Seth. They had a fun time!


Okay, I was planning to put the Tennessee pix on, too, but blogger does NOT like me. Aaargh! I guess I will have a joint Tennessee/Halloween post. I am awful.