Happy Birthday Casey!

ya...i'm totally hoping you run for office one day!! i hope you had a fantastic day :)

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i hope everyone had a fantastic-lip smastic thanksgiving :) you know it's time for the holiday season when mr. turkey makes an appearance on our front door step!

this year we met my parents, brothers and their wives in the mountains outside of gatlinburg. mountains!!! yea!!! us memphis folk just don't know what to do with mountains :) here's sara, casey, me and chris with our extended family. ya, i know we ended up with all the good looks....

okay...so they were just askin' for it when they put this sign up at clingman's dome....

aww....schmoopy, schmoopy......

all the kids....

all the girls.....

all the boys.....

and who are these fine ladies???? lookin' good, lookin' good!

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so ummm, ya...i have a quite a bit of stuff i've got to get caught up on here!! we'll let's start where i left off...

the same week that we had the halloweenie party we also had a going away party for tonya and jason. good times! i'm so sad they are moving like 15 hours away from us! we'll miss you!!

here are the lovely ladies having loads of fun 'cause we through kickin' parties, yo! i love how shea is going after tonya's hair! she' like, man i gots lot o' hair too...let me show you how all the young chicks are wearin' it these days....

and we just couldn't let the mckennas go without a photo shoot with the cartners and alleys! work it, work it!

ya...that was waaaay to serious for this motely crew....

much better. nice, trish.....

ya...i'm pretty sure that's chris' hand :)

hey....where did jason go???

there he is!!!

good times, as always. we'll miss you mckennas!!!

Party Down:

first and most importantly....happy birthday steve/daddy-o! wish we could be in kuwait to celebrate with you :)

we had an awesome time last night throwing the neighborhood halloweenie party! our neighbors who have been on northwood drive for 8 years said it's the best turn out we've ever had! woohoo! we really have great neighbors and it was so much fun to hang out with the ones we've known for a while and meet some new ones. if your street doesn't do a halloween party, i would highly recommend starting a new tradition (or telling some new people who have moved in that they inherited the party with the house)!! with the help of the harris family and templeton family, we set up some tables, got our fire pit out, set up a tent with orange halloween lights and cooked up some hotdogs for the dressed-up kiddies before they went trick-or-treating. our neighbors all brought yummy appetizers and desserts and we had a great time. one of our neighbors made an awesome grave cake that had a tombstone and a skeleton buried in it and everything! you can't really tell from the pictures, but the tent with the lights had an awesome orange glow to it that could be seen all the way up and down the street. everybody loved it! the monster eyes i made were a big hit, too :) i also had a very spooky door decor....kinda funny that i had to clean up all the real cobwebs to put up some fake ones!!

i wish i had gotten more pictures of the kids all dressed up. they were so cute and all so proud of their costumes! we even had a little 2 week old baby make an appearance as a sugar baby :) my favorite was the little 1 year old monkey! he was hilarious!

those of us without kids handed out our halloween candy from the tent and hung out by the fire pit and several folks came back to hang out. the best part is that I was still in bed by 10pm. what a great night :)

hope you had a great night, too!