Happy Thanksgiving

Well, another year has passed and we have so much to be thankful for.  I am so proud of my family.  My children have grown so much over the last year and they are the light of my life.  Riley is so smart and handsome.  He has such a loving personality and loves life so much.  I am so thankful for him.  Bentley is my little diva.  She is 17 months now and is "talking" and running around.  She is all girl...she loves bracelets and shoes and tutus and purses.  She is adjusting to school so well and loves to play with Riley.  She idolizes him and wants to do EVERYTHING he does.  They are both so sweet and such good kiddos.  I have all faith that they will be good faithful christian kids.  I am also thankful to have such a loving husband.  Casey is a great father and a great provider for our family.  I am so fortunate that I get to stay home and raise my babies. 

I have also been blessed with all of the creativity that God has recentley given me with Bentley's Bows.  Everyday it is something new....I have more ideas than I have time and money to invest in.  He just keeps blessing me with ideas and with the confidence and patience that it takes to start a new venture on your own.  I know with him being my focus, the sky is the limit and I will succeed.

We are blessed with awesome family too.  We had a great Thanksgiving on both sides.  While my thoughts were with my dad, I was able to enjoy the family that I do have here with me this holiday.  I hope that the rest of the holiday season will be a good one. 

I just know that I am thankful and blessed and I want to give God the glory for that. 

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!

Casey cannot focus a camera to save his life...

Bentley and Uncle Rick had too much turkey

Nana & Ric

Rock-a-bye Baby

Pardon the singing.......

Sadie, Dozer or Bentley's Bowl?

Bentley has a fun new hiding place.  She loves to crawl up onto the dog bowls and just sit there like she is sitting on her throne.  And, no it makes no difference if there is actually water or food in their bowls ;)

Bentley has also been getting a little too dependent on her pacifier lately.  She would hide it beside her in her high chair and suck and bit, then eat a bit, then suck a bit and then tuck it away as I was going to take it from her.  She also would go the counter and reach as far as she could and scream "pat pat" for it as soon as she was through eating.  I made the executive decision last Friday to take this from her except for nap time and bed time.  Let me say, Friday was NOT fun.  She fussed quite a bit and was very needy, but I must say after that, we have been fortunate.  She is coming to grips with the fact that she and "pat pat's" relationship is strictly to exist in her bed.  It was not as bad as I thought, but let me remind myself we still have a ways to go.  We are working toward breaking it altogether, but we are taking baby steps. 

We are also getting tubes put in and adenoids removed on December 4th.  I fondly remember how much fun the adenoid piece was with Riley.  I hope this is one of those situations where girls handle it differently. 

The Pirate & the Princess

Riley really got into Halloween this year and it was so fun.  He started out wanting to be a transformer and I just couldn't get into that, so I used my persuasion skills and dangled a pirate sword in front of him and tada, I got myself a little pirate.  He looked SOOOO cute.  Bentley was a little princess and although she wasn't as into it as Riley, she had a good time having her first OREO cookie.  We went to the Fall Festival at our church on Friday night and then Riley stayed with Memaw on Saturday night.  Anna, his girlfriend, (yes, it is official....he calls her that now) and Cole stayed with Memaw so Melissa could celebrate her 30th.  So he and Anna rang in Halloween together.