1 week and 6 days....but whose counting

I can not believe that I am so close to holding baby Jackson! Joey and I are so excited and can't believe that he is almost here. What an amazing Christmas blessing! We are as ready as we can be for first time parents,and just excited knowing it is soon. My doctor has already scheduled to induce me on Dec 16th if he isn't here by then, so that would be the latest he would be here. I think having him on that day, Joey's birthday, would be wonderful, but any day is fine with me. I am still feeling well. I am actually sleeping better than I was last month which is funny, but I am just thankful because I know sleep will be the last thing I will be gettin when he comes. Well, I am just so thankful for so many things that I need to list a few:
1. The beautiful nursery thanks to the contributions of my mom, dad, Fran, Flip, Jeff, Lauren and Carson and of course my sweet husband
2. The sweetest emails and calls from Kveton, April Marlow, Debbie Green, Bonnie Roberts, and Jess and Johnny
3. The sweetest gifts from everyone at my showers, my clients, and co-workers
4. Prayers from everyone
5. Health of baby Jackson
I have so much to be thankful for I just am overwhelmed. Thanks again for all the encouragement and support. I am so blessed and excited!
Let the count down begin!

Happy Turkey Day!!!!

What a great holiday! We had so much fun hanging out with family for Thanksgiving! Check out some of these fun pictures of our fabulously fun Turkey Day.

Beep I think you're suppose to cook the dressing first

Flip and Fran fixing a fabulous dinner


Amanda and Carson were really into The Wizard of Oz

The boys doing more eating than helping

Look at my handsome father in law

My cute husband and me

Carson and Joey starting dinner early

How cute are my brother and sister in law? Too precious!


Precious mom and son

The boys needed an after Thanksgiving nap after all that turkey



Carson showing off his many funny faces. Seriously how cute is this kid?!!! He is always photograph ready.











As you can see we had such a great time this Thanksgiving. We had a feast of a meal, thank you so much Flip and Fran, and a shout out to Jeff for cutting up the veggies for the dressing, Beep for stirring, and Joey for carving the turkey. Hope everyone else was able to feel as blessed as Joey and I with our families on Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving

What an awesome Thanksgiving we had with my family. We all chipped in to make this dinner possible, well when I say we chipped in I mean my mom did all the work and we got in the way. Thanks mom for making this day so special and for making a fantastic meal!

Joey with his carving knife

Preparing the meal

How cute is my sister?!

mom putting her hands up in the air and wavin 'em like she just don't care

What a sweet family

Jess loves starches

I do too!

Dad hates sweet potatoes


They're so shy

What's pie without ice cream?!

I ate way too much!



I love the holidays and so we have already started decorating for Christmas. Not only did we have a great Thanksgiving but we already started the Christmas celebration as well.



Who invited the elf?

The boys put up the lights


Johnny and Jess finished a Christmas puzzle

What a great time! I also have to mention the Christmas Trivia Game that we played on DVD. It's amazing what you don't know about this great holiday. We can always count on mom for a fun crazy game. Well anywho we had so much fun and I had to share it with you all. Happy Holidays everybody!!!

Football Anyone?

Now what would Thanksgiving be without a little friendly front yard football game? My family came into Longview to celebrate Thanksgiving with Joey and I this weekend. They were so sweet to travel to us since I am not allowed to travel anymore. We had so much fun! I had too many good pictures I decided the football game needed its very own blog. Continue checking because the rest of our Thanksgiving weekend will be up soon. Enjoy!

a little brother-in-law battle

I don't run real well anymore, so I was quarterback and Jess did all the running

Jess laughing at Joey's play call

Joey's run in circles until you tire out the defense play call

...still running in circles

oops he missed!


check out the concentration


Tackle him!

Dog pile!


Now its time for the spectacular catches of the day! Well, this one wasn't very spectacular...

My one arm grab with a crazy defender on me

Jess' stiff arm to Jonathan's head



The one arm grab

Check out this highlight

He looks professional

Nice catch!

I was trying to block the extra point


Don't let him score!!!!