Thanksgiving Weekend in Fairhope

We spent Thanksgiving weekend in Fairhope with my parents and Riley's Dad.  So, needless to say, Anna Riley came back pretty spoiled!  We had a wonderful time though with the exception of that horrible ending to the Iron Bowl game on Friday!! :(  Mom and I did lots and lots of shopping and I can say that I have most of my Christmas shopping done and it feels great!  I do have just a couple more items to pick up but that's it.  It was so nice to have both of our parents there and Anna Riley just loved all the attention she got.  And you can tell too because she has been quite the drama queen this week!! :)

Please excuse my blog...its a mess right now.  I always seem to have the hardest time changing my background.  I will fix it, but just not now.  So for now, you will have to look at the mess! My apologies! :)

Thanksgiving Day

We went to Riley's Aunt Grace's house on Thanksgiving day.  Anna Riley got passed around and loved all the attention.  And of course she ate her fair share of Thanksgiving food!  This girl is going to eat us out of the house!! :)  I just love being with family...whether it is mine or his! We really are so blessed and have so much to be thankful for!! 

(I did not take as many pictures as I normally do for some reason)

Granna and PawPaws

Anna Riley spent the night with my Mom and Dad last Saturday night.  She has so much fun there and I'm glad that she will stay the night.  Those are my favorite memories...spending the night at my grandparent's house, playing dominos and watching Hee Haw! haha.  They took lots of pictures but I borrowed their cable and now can't find it so more pictures later.  Thanks Mom and Dad for keeping her! :)

Breakfast with Santa

Saturday morning we went to "Breakfast with Santa." We had so much fun...we got to sit with the our friends, the Thomas' and their 3 girls.  Mandy and I had bought the same outfit for our girls so we dressed them all alike...they were so cute!  We ate breakfast, Anna Riley attempted to color (eat the crayons), and then have her picture made with Santa. I was just sure she would cry when I sat her in his lap but much to my surprise she did not. She stared at him so hard and then stared at us and would not smile at all. The photographer tried a couple of times to get her to smile but we could see that look in her eye like she was about to loose it! I could not take a picture myself, but the picture they took was free so they are mailing it to me. I will try to post it when we get it.

What I love about Sundays...

I think Sundays are turning into my favorite day.  I used to not like it because I knew Monday was right after but now I really don't mind my Mondays.  Its just a new start and a new week.  It seems that on Friday and Saturday we are just so busy with things and Riley often has jobs to check on so usually he isn't here on Saturday mornings.  So now I love Sundays!  I love us all getting dressed up for church.  I love starting my week off with listening to a great sermon and just the feel of being at church...you know what I'm talking about...its that warmy fuzzy feeling almost! :)  I love having the rest of the day to do whatever we want which often includes a nap and always lots and lots of family time!   

Heart Update

Dr. Carlo just called and said that everything looked as he suspected and had previously told us with the holter (the 24 hour heart monitor that AR had to wear).  He said he would see her again in a year to see if there were any changes.  But even if she still had it, she would be ok and would not need any treatment!  YAY!!! Thank the Lord! Thanks so much for all of your prayers!