Sweet Caroline

Thanksgiving is always one of my favorite holidays. I just love the coziness of gathering with family without the madness of present opening. Mikey and I both ended up with strep throat Wednesday and had to miss my family’s thanksgiving dinner Wednesday night- totally bummed me out. The kids still went though and caused ruckus all throughout Lolly and Granddadddys house with their cousins.  Thankfully, both of us felt fine Thursday and weren’t contagious anymore since we had been on meds for 24 hours- so we were able to enjoy thanksgiving day with Mikey’s family.  The rest of the weekend was filled with LOTS of snuggle time, family movies, a zoo outing, (Parents night out at the Carolina Clemson football game) and then capping it all off Sunday with church, some decorating and finally, Friendsgiving. I can’t believe we are already at the start of the craziest but most wonderful time of year!

Well, it's already Thursday. How does that happen?  Last weekend was good... nothing crazy busy but a perfect balance of stay at home/playtime and social time.  Friday night we enjoyed an impromptu get together at a friend's house.... grilled some burgers and watched the kids run the neighborhood.  We were home and asleep by 10:30.  My Ohio bestie came in town for the weekend to snuggle our newest baby bestie and we all gathered at our house starting at 3:30 Saturday to watch our gamecocks! It was WILD. 9 kids and 9 adults. But, I love these girls and those babies and as usual, we had the best time together.  Sunday seemed like the longest day EVER as I'm sure it did for most of America. My kids slept until 7, which is great for daylight savings time change. We cleaned, played, and hung out until church. And Sunday afternoon was much of the same....  Mikey's mom came in town Thursday to watch the boys play soccer and we took her to dinner for her birthday:-...

Keeping up with three young kids while trick or treating in a packed, dark neighborhood.... whew! We survived survived trick or treat 2017!

Picking pumpkins-a family race to support our sweet friend, Leo and SMA- a gamecock win- AND Boo at the Zoo. (Not pictured: Friday nights adult Halloween party x2😱).  I'd say it was a jam packed weekend. But, a fun one too. Can't believe Halloween is already here!!

Welp, I just realized I never recapped our weekend, the one thing I'm normally good at with blogging. So I'll just cram it Into this post.  1. We had a fairly low key weekend again, and it was amazing. C's school had a trunk or treat Friday night which was fun, and then some friends came over to hang out and eat dinner with us after.  We had errands and a birthday party Saturday, while Mikey stayed home and painted the stripes in the boys room, we had put it off long enough! We spent Saturday evening hanging out with friends and enjoying watching the kids play outside. Sunday was a day full of laziness, play time, snuggles and naps. A total Sunday win.  2. It's breaking my heart to see how "big boy" my babies are and just so fast. I love these stinkers more than life. 3. It's fiiiiinally feeling like fall around here. In an effort to take some things off my plate, i tend to "go go go" allllll the time.... and I even needed a little break recently...