Thanksgiving 2014

This year thanksgiving was in Baton Rouge. We enjoyed being there for almost a week! Gave us plenty of playtime at the museum downtown, time for mommy and daddy to get a "date night" (including bumping into Mike the Tiger), time to help Uncle Bobby work on his walking and recover from being in the hospital for while, and to enjoy some excellent food! We had great weather, great downtime to count our blessings, and time for sillyness too! Enjoy some photos of highlights

Halloween

What a fun time to be a kid! Halloween! We enjoyed bringing in the fall season with painting little pumpkins...carving a pumpkin (You are probably glad I'm not a surgeon!), walking through "Trunk or Treat" at our church with our friends the Brelands and Eliza (new next door neighbor), and a walk through the neighborhood on Halloween night. Brings back memories of childhood but I can hardly remember any costumes I had...Oh well! It was fun helping Claire dress up as a Cowgirl and Joel didn't seem to mind his Turtle outfit. Enjoy some pics of this years Halloween for the Carvers.

2014 Oct Halloween - Video Maker

Random Photos from Oct

As always there's fun to be had at the Carver house in the little things...but mostly in the people we spend time with! We discovered a free art class at the Hoover Rec Center and we continue with Kindermusik with Mrs Cwis (Joel's pronunciation)...We got to play with Katie (friend from gymnastics) and her mom taught herself how to face paint (I have avoided Pinterest due to the warnings of being up all night chasing ideas...)...We enjoyed celebrating Eliza's 4th birthday (very sweet new neighbors)...a morning at the Park with YaYa...Mr. Zach is a great neighbor who loves our kids! Claire also got to try her feet with dancing with her buddy Sophie - tutu cute! Claire went to the ER at Childrens at around 10 months with an allergic reaction to Penecillin (like her mommy). Now it was Joel's turn...he nearly knocked out his front 2 teeth after a fall at Claire's school. Thanks to God by the time we saw the hospital dentist his teeth and gums had tightened back up. So after a 4 hour experience he still has those teeth and it did not slow him down any! What can you do about boys that are full steam ahead...PRAY! A milestone occurred - We took Joel out of the infant car seat and now into convertible car seat and forward facing. I had a brief "moment" as more and more of the "infant" things start to go away...I love watching my babies grow up! Another special person is Uncle Bob from N.C. He made his annual pilgrimage to his alma mater (U. Alabama) to go to a football game with Jeff. He always makes plenty of time for Claire and Joel! We enjoyed our visit! Enjoy some other pics of these times and others.

2014 Oct Random - Video Maker

MSU Makes History!!!

What an experience! For the Bulldog fans out there, this is the sweetest time in Football history we have ever had! So many firsts going on...no on predicted that after 5 games we'd go from unranked to #1 and that Ole Miss would be highly ranked too! What a great time for the Magnolia State! I got to experience the MSU/Auburn game in full Maroon Fashion with my dad...we met for lunch at the Little Dooey for BBQ then took in the "electric" atmosphere around campus before the game...We endured rain and cowbell mayhem to see the Bulldogs definitively beat Auburn for what would put us in the #1 ranked spot! WOW! It was a neat experience and memory to make with my dad and thanks to my wonderful husband for keeping our 2 little ones and encouraging me to spend the night, I came home with 9 hours of sleep behind me to rejoin him in the chase to keep them from breaking a limb in all their activity! Here's a few highlights. Hail State!

2014 Oct MSU #1 - Video Maker

September highlights

Here's some random shots of life in Sept. Kindermusik, gymnastics, fun around the house, football starts up, "home-training", fun with neighborhood friends (our new neighbor Eliza welcomed her baby sister this month!), zoo trip for Joel, hiking at Moss Rock, and daily life...enjoy the fun!

2014 Sept Random - Video Maker

Joel - 18 months!

Here's our big boy! 18 months! WOW! It's been quite a year already with all of his ear infections resulting in tubes in August and now fully recovered from a 2 week stomach virus that had had him with some messy diapers for 15 days (but who's counting!) Through it all he is one happy little guy who loves to climb, explore, laugh at Claire, dance to music and sings too! Still blonde haired, dimpled cheeks and big brown eyes! 12 teeth now and interested in writing with colors...gets excited when he sees school buses, dogs and Claire! Can give good kisses, turns lights on/of and opens/closes doors... and eats like a champ! Weighs 23 pounds and 10oz (40%) and 33 1/4" long (70%)...getting new words every day and still goes to Kindermusik on Mondays. What a fun little boy to have in our family! Keep up the great growing, Joel...not too fast!

August Photo Shoot

2014 Aug Photo Shoot 2 - Video Maker