Arkansas vs. Rutgers 2012

Thanks to my mom watching all three kids, I got to enjoy the Wells Fargo Sponsored tailgate with Kraig, Matt and Victoria yesterday.  Here we are pre-game.  Needless to say the Razorbacks are not great this year with all the scandals going on with the 2012 season so we stayed until half time and left.  I'm starting to think tailgating is the best part of the games with the way the season is going!

 

And here is my little man at my mom's house when I went to pick them up.

He is wearing my dad's hat backwards.  :-)  Little squirrel!

Thanks mom, dad and Katlyn (she got to 'babysit' Lauren and Colton) for watching our little munchkins!

Arkansas vs. Alabama - Taylor's First Razorback Tailgate

Yesterday was a busy day for all in our family (a wedding, school and people traveling) so Taylor got to go tailgating with me!  Since Lauren started Kindergarten and no longer sees Miss Janete from BH, we asked Miss Janete to watch Lauren and Colton while I went tailgating.  Lauren was SO excited!  I didn't take a headband with me for Taylor as I was just trying to get out of the house looking half decent :-) so I found this little headband in her diaper bag.  It makes her head look HUGE!  It was a pretty good day as I got to spend time with my friends and family, the kids got to have fun with Miss Janete and since I just stayed for the tailgate, I got home, put L&C to bed for naps while I watched the Razorback game from the comfort of my couch (while it was raining on and off at the game).

Great day!

My girls!

You can see Lauren had been crying because she was sad Miss Janete was gone and she thought she would NEVER see her again.  :-(  I quickly told her that we will see Miss Janete every week when we drop off/pick up Taylor and Colton and we will ask her to babysit again.  :-)

November in a Nutshell

Sorry I've been a bad blogger lately. To catch up here is what we have done this month!

• November 1st, Colton had his 2 year check up. Click here for details


• November 2nd, I had dinner with my girl Tracey Farmer and her 1 month old baby boy Austin at PF Changs


• November 4th, my niece Katlyn turned 10 (yes I said 10!) and we went to her surprise birthday party


• November 5th, Kraig and I went to the Razorback game and tailgate where Arkansas beat South Carolina 44-28! All thanks to Uncle Ryan and Aunt Lisa for watching the kiddos (the kiddos had a great time at Jump Zone by the way)


• November 11th and 12th, Kraig went deer hunting


• November 15th, I had dinner with my girls Keisha and Melissa at Johnny Carinos. I had not seen them in a long time so it was great to catch up!


• November 16th, I had dinner with my sis-in-laws Kristen, Lisa and Chelsea for Chelsea's belated 21st birthday at Bonefish. Lots of fun had when we get together!


• November 20th-23rd, Kraig went duck hunting


• Sunday the 20th, I hosted my first family Thanksgiving at my house for 30 people! Everything turned out great (a little later than I planned to pull everything together but it was a success)! I even cooked my first turkey (21 pounds) and ham (10 pounds) and everything seemed to think they tasted good so I was happy! (Thanks Melissa for the recipes!) Click here for the Turkey Recipe.


• Monday the 21st, Lauren went back to the dentist for her 2nd filling (and last hopefully) and did great! I stayed home with her that day and we enjoyed some mommy daughter time!


• November 22nd, the kids and I had dinner with Uncle Larry Beck and cousin Robin Beck from California at Mellow Mushroom along with the rest of the Beck clan for Larry's Birthday


• November 23rd-25th, our family went to the cabin on the 23rd to have Thanksgiving with Nana and Papaw and the Beck clan and came back Friday to watch the Razorback game.


• Saturday the 26th, I went Christmas shopping with my girls Jen and Lori and got some awesome deals at Kohls! We were supposed to go to St Louis for the weekend but Sue was not feeling well so we stayed home and gave our tickets to Spencer. It was a great weekend!


• Sunday the 27th, we celebrated Mimi's 90th birthday! The full Ellison clan was there and it was great to see everyone!


• Lauren is taking dance every Wednesday night in Tontitown and loving it!


• I've been cooking more and more and getting the hang of it! LOL. Click here for all the recipes I've been trying.

So that's our month of November in a nutshell. I do have pictures of some of it so I will post those soon. I can't believe it but Christmas is right around the corner! Happy Holiday's everyone!

Painting Fun

A week or so ago I wanted to paint a Razorback canvas for our house. I knew that Lauren would want to help me so I bought another canvas for her to paint. Here she is helping me with hers.

Love you princess!

And here is my razorback canvas. Sorry it's turned sideways...I have edited the photo and no matter how I turn it on my computer it loads like this?

Go Razorbacks!!!

A few Saturday's ago (the 5th I think) Lauren got all dressed up in her Razorback gear so I of course had to take photos. :-) Go hogs!!!