Today is my mom's birthday and the world is a better place because God put her in it. She is a woman of God and has blessed her husband, children, grandchildren, family, and friends with her kindness, grace, love, energy, happiness and servant spirit! We are thanking God for knitting her together on this day!

We love you mom and Happy Birthday!

This months seems to be flying by! Here are some random moments I've caught on camera this month. First up, Carson a few days ago before school with his must have "spikey hair."


This is pretty much a nightly occurrence at our house! The boys LOVE to play football with Wade and I love watching them be "boys!" Callahan just gets right in there like he is just as big and tough.


Every night, Callahan loves to get in Carson's bed and be tucked him just like his big brother. He cries when we have to pick him up out of there when it's really time to go to bed.


Here are the boys on Friday night. We went to eat pizza, then rented some movies and had movie night and saw Wall-E. It was so good and the boys laughed and laughed. Callahan actually hung with it about halfway or so! Here they are laughing and eating some popcorn. It was a fun night.

Just a quick update on my dad, he is feeling better and each day seems a little better. Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and prayers. Your comments have meant so much and are very appreciated. Hope everyone has a safe and blessed Thanksgiving!

First of all, thank you all so much for your sweet comments of encouragement, thoughtfulness, and prayers. They are greatly appreciated and my dad thanks you too.

Dad had his surgery last Wednesday. He wasn't released until Friday. He is doing as good as can be expected as far as the surgery and everything. The doctors did have to do a total elbow replacement. He is VERY sore and still in a lot of pain to say the least. He is taking his sick leave from work and using the rest of his vacation to hopefully get him through until January, when hopefully he can resume traveling for his job. He told my mom that if he had to live the rest of his life in that sort of pain, then he would rather die...so, your prayers for a speedy recovery and less pain are very much appreciated!! God is good and faithful and we have complete trust in Him during this. Thank you again!! Love to all of you!

This past weekend, we went to West Memphis to visit Wade's parents. We had a great visit and the boys had a really fun time. Here is Callahan asleep on the way...he slept for almost 2 hours which really helped out the almost 5 hour drive.


Callahan and Nana reading before bed. Cal is really into books right now.

Pappy pulled out these jersey's of Wade's when he was little. The yellow and black is his old football jersey when he was a kid and the Celtics were Wade's favorite team when he was little because of Larry Bird. Carson LOVED having these and wore them interchangeably all weekend! Needless to say, we brought them home and he's worn them each night. He is really into playing football right now and every day dresses up like a football or baseball player (sometimes both in the same night)!

On Saturday, we went to the Memphis Zoo. I highly recommend this zoo if you are ever in the Memphis area. It is now rated among the top in the country and I can see why. It was excellent, nicely laid out, clean, and they even have Pandas there now. They are also getting a new wilderness attraction in the spring with grizzlies and wolves and then in 2010 they are getting a bigger aquarium area with more sea lions, walrus', etc. We will definitely plan to go back then, but loved all of it this time. It was great weather and had beautiful fall colors too with lots of big, gorgeous trees. We had a great time and the boys really loved it!










Thank you all for your sweet comments and prayers offered up for my dad! It is such an encouragement to know how many people are petitioning God on my dad's behalf. He thanks you and I appreciate you so much. I will update after tomorrow's surgery.

To all my faithful blogger prayer warriors...

My dad fell on Sunday off a ladder at home and shattered his left elbow. You may be thinking, well broken arm (although painful) will heal with time. In most cases, yes, that would be the case. However, the doctors have said that this is the worst bone you can break (other than your back and being paralyzed). The elbow is the most complicated joint in the body. He went today to Texas Orthopedic Hospital in Houston and the doctors said that it was not good at all. He will more than likely have to have an artificial elbow put in. My mom initially told the doctors that she was really glad that he didn't break a hip or knee. The doctor said that actually, that would be better and they wish he had. They said that they only like to do this surgery on 75 year old women who sit in the rocking chair and knit all day. Not a 61 year old healthy man like my dad. The medical field has made great strides in artificial hips and knees, but not so much when it comes to the elbow because of it's complicity. They said that there is a small chance that they can rebuild the broken bones, but they could see at least 7 broken pieces and that it was unlikely. The most devastating thing with this type of break is that dad will no longer be able to lift more than 5 lbs with his left arm ever again. The doctor said that the only thing he will be able to do basically is button his pants and eat with his left arm for the rest of his life. This is a very disheartening thing to hear at 61 for my dad. It will affect everything he does. He loves to work in the yard, landscaping, transplanting plants, raking, etc. all the time - this is his hobby, and he will not be able to do this anymore the way he is used to. The bigger heartbreaker is that he will never be able to just pick up his grandchildren anymore. Don't get me wrong, we are very glad that it wasn't worse and that it wasn't his dominate arm, but it's a life changing injury. It will affect his professional and personal life - forever. This is a hard pill to swallow for him. He will not be able to travel until January, which is also hard on his job as he pretty much travels on a weekly basis to train sales force in his company nationwide. His surgery is scheduled for next Wednesday.

Please pray for my dad...
-for healing in his arm
-for peace and comfort
-for his pain level (he is in a lot of pain as you can imagine!)
-for the surgery next week
-for job security
-for his continued faith and trust in God to take care of him.

Thank you in advance for reading this long post and for your prayers. They mean so much. God bless you!

We had a great Halloween this year with perfect fall weather and it falling on a Friday - lots of fun! Carson told me about 5-6 times yesterday that it was halloween...he was very excited to say the least! We really love halloween with the fall colors, pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns, and trick-or-treating. We had some of our good friends over, the Brownings, with their kiddos - Morganne and Blaine and we also had Wade's brother and sister-in-law along with little Ellie Jane. We ate pizza and trick-or-treated and then came back to pass out candy and chow down on our goodies. We had a great time! Carson was Dale Earnhardt Jr. this year (his choice) and Callahan was a puppy dog. Ellie Jane was Daisy Duck! I must say that we had the cutest little trick-or-treaters on the block...okay, I'm a little biased. But they were really really cute. Callahan would even bark a few times when we greeted people. Here are some pics of our night - sorry there are so many, I'm quite indecisive.