Family Photo's

Here are just a few of our family photo's we just got back - we defintely hit the peak of fall color and Thelen did a great job as always!

Congratulations Carter and Emmerson

This past weekend Brian and I had the honor of becoming Godparents to Carter Riley - Carter and cousin Emmerson Riley were baptized together in Charleston SC. The weekend could not have been more beautiful and the both babies did wonderful during the ceremony. I have included a picture of Carter wearing the robe to the traditional christening gown that is 103 years old and has been worn by every member of the Riley Family -absolutely beautiful. We had such a fun weekend hanging with our dear friends the whole Riley & Deason Families - Thank you so much Kim and Chris for hosting our crazy crowd and thank you Mandy & Brian for the wonderful honor of being Carter's Godparents! We Love you all!

Happy Halloween

I personal have never been a big Halloween fan, not one to dress up, and definitely not a night owl - but I do thoroughly enjoy the excitement of kids at Halloween -and their precious costumes - and Connor had big plans for his first Halloween to stroll around the neighborhood with the "big" McDowell kids -but instead we decided to stay home with our first ear infection -not fun. We did get to attend the Halloween party at Cherokee on Wednesday before he started feeling bad so i did get a few pictures in his Pooh costume. I really don't let Connor watch much TV, and for the most part he doesn't care much about TV, but his attention span doubles when Pooh is on -it is precious, so it was fitting that he was Pooh for Halloween. I also included a few more pictures below -we have had a crazy few weeks, including one very fun adult night out to the Rascal Flatts Concert, and my mom and I took a girls trip to Chicago for my National ADA conference -we had a blast, I highly recommend Chicago as one of my all time favorite cities, and also highly recommend the Broadway play Wicked - absolutely wonderful! To make the trip even better Brian did a fabulous job as a single parent for a few days and I think Connor loved the "guy time"