My Madness as a Stay at Home Mom

My Madness as a Stay at Home Mom

Friday, November 4, 2011

Swamp People, Pumpkin Patch, Alabama, Halloween

So because I am crazy behind on the picture posting there are a TON of pictures to show you. It’s a LONG blog post.

We went to a meet and greet with Troy and Jacob from Swamp People. I LOVE this show and Reese enjoys watching them hunt alligators as well. We were the first ones in line to meet them and they were super nice and really friendly. While we were there the local ABC channel was filming new faces for their commercial and OUR girl Reese made the cut. She shrieks every time she sees herself on TV.

013Troy..the king of gators016Jacob….028030035Reese and her friend Luke who was also there to meet Troy102Reese in front of the TV while her commercial plays!

We went to the pumpkin patch twice, once with our friends from Stroller Strides and once with Ryan to get our pumpkins, and we did some pretty sweet carvings.

060Reese and her friend Jack063my “pumpkin”065089094095105110

113FYI she dressed herself…and yes she’s wearing wool tights in 80+ degree weather.

114118Brynn obviously thrilled to have her picture taken

122and even more excited!123Ryan’s skull and Rosetta (the Garden Fairy from Tinkerbell) which was Reese’s pumpkin and my fine craftsmanship.

Random shot of Brynn…our chunky monkey!

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We went to Alabama for my cousin Christie’s wedding where Reese was the flower girl. Reese had a BLAST being the flower girl and told Ryan and I see wanted to get married at the same place and Brynnie could be her flower girl and Maddax (my cousin’s son) could be her ring barrier (as she calls it).

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016Reese and Maddox017

018020022024025029033036039042044Reese was SO good during the ceremony, she just stood there in awe of the bride.054057

063Our little family of four067

072Reese and Emmy…crazy that I babysat this kiddo when she was Reese’s age (and younger)

075It was loaded!

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105It was SUCH a gorgeous night…Alabama was slightly tempting for me to move to when it gave us this picture perfect night

108Gramps and his number 1 girl!

110116121I happened to catch them being silly

125140142dancing fool!

Halloween….

144Captain Jack and Cindi147Cinderlla

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Brynn’s photo session…which didn’t go well,  I’m not a professional

164Trying to take the same pic we have of Reese….just need her to quit crying167This was how it was most of the time

171her favorite face to make180182189Can youIMG_8484tell which one191is Reese?

This week we had a bit of a rough morning when we found that our sweet cat Fatty had died. Fatty was born in our driveway shortly after we moved in and I adopted him as our own. It only took two years of me feeding him before he trusted me enough to let me pet him. After that he was in love, would rub up on my legs every time I was outside. He was there to greet me anytime I came home and if I went out at night he would sit in the front waiting for me to come home before he would curl up in the bushes to go to sleep. Fatty was buried in the yard in a spot where he would often sit to wait for me to come home.

IMG_7763Fatty (on the right) sunbathing in the gutters last year