Thanksgiving Eve!

So excited about Thanksgiving! I have been up since 4:45 a.m. making Pumpkin Rolls and homemade butterfinger for Desserts! Yummy!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! We have so much to be thankful for. It’s easy to get wrapped up in becoming a grumbler over a person of gratitude! This Holiday season I am focusing on the good and will be Thankful for all things that happen in my life!

I love quotes and below are some Thanksgiving Quotes I found:

"As we pause to thank Him for the blessings of the past year,

we must not forget to thank Him for the lessons we have learned through our difficult times.

We are not to be thankful for just the pleasant, easy things, but ALL things."
[Millie Stamm]

"We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction."

[Harry A. Ironside]

"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.

No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving."

[H. U. Westermayer]

"We are so taken up with the affairs of the present that we don't have time to give thanks for blessings of the past."

[John A. Broadus]

 

"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give,

and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]

P.S... My little girls turns 20 months tomorrow. I just looked at the calendar and realized we will have a new baby boy in the family in less than 4 monhts!!!

Festive Saturday!

We woke up Saturday and Madeline had lots of fun playing in her Daddy's sock drawer.

Then we headed to Sutton's 1St Birthday Party!

Ben and I love watching Madeline grow up with Addison and Sutton. Ben always has fun stories to tell of him and JE growing up together.

It was a Hog theme so all the kiddos had on their Razorback attire.

Precious Birthday Boy with his Grandmother

Madeline thought Sutton needed some help opening his presents. I was surprised she was so interested in them. She may be more into opening presents on Christmas morning than I expected.

Madeline loved her party favor.....

and she loved picking her Hog nose. Much more fun than picking your real nose!

Madeline napped during the 1st half of the game. When she woke up we got her ready, headed to US Pizza to watch the game, ate and then headed to the square to watch the Lights of the Ozark light up and the parade.

Ben gets excited just like a little boy, which is one of the many traits I love about him. I think I captured that boyhood excitment in the picture below. This was right when they turned the lights on.

Madeline was a little scared of the parade at first.

Then she got into the parade and started to wave...

The picture below was taken after her school float passed. She saw her teacher Miss Jessie and started reaching for her and crying and yelling Jessie as it passed...... It went on for several minutes.....

The crying for her teacher continued until the parade of corvettes passed. I am not sure why, but she LOVED them. She started waving like crazy when they passed. This was definitely her favorite part of the parade. I do not care for Corvettes, but Madeline sure does. I drive like a grandma, but Madeline may take after her Dad and drive extra fast and like sports cars like my Dad does.

Speaking of driving like a Grandma, I have never been pulled over for speeding. Isn't that crazy! The only time I have been pulled over  was when I was very, very pregnant with Madeline and I was driving my mom's car. I was pulled over right in front of Dillard's doors for her tags being expired!  Really,  you are pulling me over in a mall parking lot. I pulled the I am 9 months pregnant card but he did not give and told me his wife just had a baby 2 weeks before.

My favorite float was the McDonald's float.....

Introducing....

 Graham Reynolds Penix

20 Weeks 4 Days

I am now a little over 22 weeks, so I am few weeks overdue posting this!

At our 16 week appointment, we took a peek, but Graham was not wanting to co-operate at the time. The doctor said 90% boy, but we were not 100% sure. At my 20 week appointment, it was confirmed that we are our sweet little baby is a boy. Like I guessed Madeline being a girl, I said from Day 1 that I knew our baby was a boy. This pregnancy is completely different than Madelines'. I have loved it ,just like the time I was pregnant with Madeline, but I was much more nauseous the first 12 weeks. I carried Madeline a lot higher(my ribs hurt so bad) and my belly went straight out.  This little boy is lower and is making his momma's rear and hips expand.

During my 20 week ultrasound, the Ultrasound Tech was checking everything and said two legs bonus. I thought that meant she was saying there was something extra in that area and confirming it is a boy. So I said, It is a boy and She said, I have not checked yet, but was just saying it is a bonus the baby has two legs.  I agree and feel very blessed that at this point everything looks perfect!

I may sound silly, but the ultrasound pictures of Graham look just like Madeline's. I said that the other day and Ben said, yes, both Ultrasound pictures of Madeline and Graham look like skeletons. Men!

Fun Fall Weekend

The first weekend of November we woke up Saturday morning and headed to War Eagle Mill for breakfast. We enjoyed looking at all the beautiful fall trees on the way.

Once we got home, my Dad arrived for a visit.

Madeline had lots of fun celebrating her Grand Pa's Bithday!

My Dad moved to Louisian a few months ago and said that he dressed up as a LSU fan for Halloween.

All the guys at work loved it. He wore a LSU track suit/wind suit.

I know he will have lots of fun next week at work talking about the big LSU/Arkansas game next weekend with all his LSU co-workers. No 1 Vs. No. 3! (or at least what Ben thinks, rankings come out later today)

 Madline loves working in the yard with her Daddy!

She thought he should sweep the yard instead of rake.....

 She decided the birds needed more food in their feeder.....

I swear this girl would love living on a farm. She loves doing things in the yard, feeding the birds, etc......

We would have so much fun taking care of chickens and goats with horses. I do not think Ben will go for that though! Coming up: Pictures of her GrandDad and her riding on his tractor. Like I said, she would love it on a little farm. I Love the idea of it, but may not actually like the real world work once I lived on it.