VOL Orange

We spent the day preparing for the Tennessee football game later this afternoon.  I cleaned the house, ordered dinner and made a few snacks while the kids helped me by having good behavior and playing nicely together!

I caught a sweet moment between siblings watching a video

 Unfortunately, they heard the click of the camera!

 they have both learned the "I Love You" sign and I love to see it!

 pre-game warm up game

 Cooper loves to play air hockey

 Our friends from Dallas, TX were in  for the holidays and stopped by to watch the game with us.  The dad (Dee) is a Tennessee graduate and didn't want to miss the game!  Cooper loved playing with boys (as our Bible study group is all girls) ~ Cooper, Hooper & Neyland would be T-R-O-U-B-L-E if they lived closer to each other!

 these are the only pictures I took of the gang all night

 Family photo after the win by UT

 Go Big Orange

 V-O-L-S Go Vols Go!

 Vol For Life

 

 It's great to be a Tennessee Vol!

We've had a little too much togetherness over the past 2 weeks...the fighting has begun!

Rocky Top

Our friends from NC came over for the final UT home football game of the year.  We tailgated from 9am until the game started at 7:30pm!!  We had a great time catching up with each other, eating, playing games and watching other football games on TV throughout the day!

our set up for the day!

 no tailgate is complete without corn hole

 of course, the boys had to throw the football around too

 we took a stroll down the strip to walk off lunch!

 then, we headed back so we could watch football, eat dinner and head down for kick off

 the sun went down and it got cool!

 never fear, we had a fire pit too!

 the Power T

 Justin Worley at his final home game - shaking Coach Butch's hand

 the Vols getting ready to run through the T

 Coach Butch looks intense!

 the opening kick off

 Me and my man

Third Down for What?

 Smokey was wrapped up in his blanket again this week!

It got COLD - we had on 2 shirts + a thermal shirt, jeans + thermal pants, fuzzy boots + socks, gloves, a toboggan, and heavy coats!!

 Me and Jessica in our twin toboggans!

Although the score wasn't what we wanted, we had a great time spending the weekend together again.  I'm sure they'll be many more days like this in our future!

Halloween Scenes

Here are a few pictures of our Halloween festivities, from our photographer friend John.

we started with dinner ~ BBQ chicken

 Greg secretly wanted to be Darth Vader!

 photo shoot!

 let the trick or treating begin!

 Our sweet neighbor, Mr Burl (who sadly passed away 2 weeks after this night on 11/14/14)

 then the rains came and we had to stop our outdoor festivities a little early!

Small Group Thanksgiving Lunch

We had our Bible study small group over for Thanksgiving lunch this afternoon.  

the house needed to be cleaned before everyone arrived, thankfully I had a helper!

 I didn't take any pictures of the whole group today, and only took a few of the kids.  We had 10 adults and 4 kids over today

 Annabelle & Reagan

 Maggie & Cooper

 After lunch, the girls went outside to play...not really sure where Cooper was! 

We had such an enjoyable afternoon of talking, laughing and eating!

Friday Fun

All Pro Dad started back at Reagan's school this week, so I got to take Cooper out for breakfast.  He chose Dunkin' Donuts...and ate 12 munchkins!

 that's my boy!

On Friday nights, we host a small group Bible study in our home.  Reagan and Cooper love having friends over.  Tonight, they had dinner and a movie in the basement while the adults were upstairs.

Maggie, Cooper, Annabelle & Reagan enjoying baked spaghetti and garlic bread 

The watched "A Turtle's Tale 2"