Happy Halloween!!!!

Carving a pumpkin

Joe carved his first pumpkin last night for Halloween. I think he did a great job! So we are ready for some visitors to stop by Wed night for some candy!!!

Fall Weather

Today was the first cool day where Emily actually wore some long sleeves! I'm ready for fall weather. She looked so cute in these overalls today I just couldn't resist taking this picture:

Bud and Emily Updates

Emily and Bud both had doctor appointments this past week. But got his teeth cleaned on Thursday so he had to be sedated for the procedure. He did fine. We have to continue his antibiotics for the week due to the bacteria in his mouth but the vet said all looked good. He has a couple of cavities on his back teeth but on dogs you just leave those alone. We also have some doggie toothpaste we have to use now to brush Bud's teeth . . . fun times!

Emily went to the doctor on Friday for her 9 month checkup. She is 28 1/4 inches long and 15 lbs 14 oz. She is doing well! I thought we were going to go to the doctor for the first time and not get any shots but she got her flu shot. She did well though and had no effects from it so that is great. She is going on Monday to an eye doctor for them to check out her clogged tear duct.

9 Months Old!

Emily is 9 months old today!!!

Hodge Podge

Tonight I'm posting a hodge podge of pictures. I was going thru my pictures folder on my PC and found some I forgot were on there. First off though . . . .Emily pulled up to a standing position all by herself today! I grabbed the camera right before she fell.


Here is a picture of Joe that I don't remember taking. Apparently I was playing around with the black and white feature:
Here is a picture of Joe and his best friend Bob. They've been friends since Joe was 6. Joe thinks this picture was taken in 1991.This was our first Christmas together when we were dating. This was taken in 1994 . . . we looked so young!!!
Here is a picture I found of my Granny B's brothers and sisters. Granny B is my mom's mom. My great-grandmother had 15 children . . . 5 "singles" and 5 sets of twins!!!! Oh my! One set of twins only lived for a very short time (maybe a few hours or a few days . . . I can't remember), 1 sister died at 9 from blood poisoning, and 1 sister died in the 50s; so in this picture there are only 11 children shown.

Granny B is the lady on the 2nd row on the far right in the green dress. She had a twin brother named Eugene and they both died of Alzheimer's. Their names were Eugene and Adene . . . hee hee. Here are all their names . . . I'm sure you will get a laugh out of some of them.

Front row from left to right: Boyd (twin-Maude-died in 50s), Faye (twin-Wade), Mary, Velma(twin-Selma-died at 9)

2nd row left to right: Eugene(twin-GrannyB), Bertha (oldest child), Tommie (youngest child), Adene "Granny B"

3rd row from left to right: Andrew, Ivy, Wade

The twins that died as babies were Era and Eva. The only 2 living now are Aunt Faye (106) and Aunt Tommie (93).

Visit from my roomies!

This past weekend my college roommates came to Atlanta! We get together each year and rotate to each other's house . . . this year was the year to come to Atlanta. We visited the GA Aquarium and the Coke Museum on Thursday. Here we are watching the 4D movie at the coke museum:

There is another movie that you see when you first go to the coke museum. I happen to think it's hysterical! The beginning shows what happens inside a coke machine when you put in the money . . . and then after that they interview all the characters . . . that's the funny part to me . . . I LOVE IT! My favorite characters in it are the tall skinny blue guys that you first see at the beginning. They are a hoot!

On Friday we visted the Margaret Mitchell House. She wrote Gone with the Wind. I've seen the movie about 10 times but I'm embarrassed to say that I've never read the book. I bought a copy on Friday so I will be reading it soon. They also had a small museum of items from the movie:Don't you just love Miss Scarlet:
On Saturday we went to the Cyclorama which is a 4 story oil painting depicting the Battle of Atlanta. It is the largest oil painting in the world measuring 42 feet high and 358 feet long. It was pretty cool. Danielle is our civil war history buff so she knows a lot more about it than I do. Here we are waiting to go in to see the painting:
We also went to the top of Kennesaw Mountain where part of the Battle of Atlanta took place. Here is our view of the city from the mountain:

Danielle was so excited because Emily got to visit her first civil war site:
They all went home Sunday morning after we ate breakfast at La Madeleine's. If you have never eaten there you must try it. They have such delicious food!

Busy Little Bee

Emily is on the go now. She is crawling much faster (as you can see from the video above) and will now crawl from room to room where she used to stay put for the most part. So as you can imagine she is into everything! I've seen her chewing on Bud's bone and trying to get his dog food and bowl. She has tried to open cabinets, play with the laptop, open the oven broiler door, pull the laundry out of the baskets, chew on the cell phone battery cords and I could go on and on! Getting stuff done around the house has gotten a lot more interesting lately!

Playing in the kitchen

Janelle, who keeps Emily for me sometimes, gave Emily this little kitchen yesterday. It was her little girl's kitchen and she has outgrown it. Emily loves it! She had so much fun playing with it this morning.



This is one of my favorite dresses on Emily. It was my niece Sarah's dress when she was a baby and Michelle is letting me borrow it. I love Emily in blue:

I also love how Emily sleeps with her legs tucked under her. She is such a sweetie pie. She sleeps like this at night also. I couldn't resist getting this picture of her yesterday.