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Canon's list this year has been pretty easy. We're keeping it simple, just giving him 4 presents from us and then a few extras from Santa (aka grandparents). He's super into building, legos, matchbox cars and characters, so I decided to go with those I thought would give us the most years of playtime. 

Somehow I've never posted about the home football games my college friends and I have gone to since we've graduated. We've gotten together every year since graduating in the spring of 2007! I thought it would be fun to take a little trip down memory lane with pics from each year! 2007 2008 2009 2010 (Aaron's first year!) 2011 - We moved to Denver 2012 - We had a baby   2013   2014 2015 Recap HERE

Over the past 8 years my college friends have gotten together for various events, but always for a home football game! As I am writing this, I realized I've never actually posted about these weekends, so I'm going to find those pictures and do a separate post on that!  As we started our e-mail chain about this year's game, a very wise Spangler suggested maybe combining football weekend and mountain house weekend into one, since ya know, tailgating all day with children isn't the most fun thing in the world.  So, the 2015 mountain house football weekend was created. It was the best decision. We picked an away game and a house that was centrally located to everyone in NC. We left town after work Thursday night and arrived at 1am. It was a long, dark drive, but totally worth it not to have to be in the car again for 2 whole days!  I thought I would take more pictures, but as it was, I was too buys catching up with friends and chasing toddlers! Here is what I...

This past weekend I took the boys on a solo trip to visit Meg, Chris and Avery in Wilmington, NC! It was a looooong drive down on Friday evening (about 7 hours total), but it was totally worth it.  These sweet boys. I can't blame them for their behavior on that long drive, but they were both very happy to be stretched out to sleep once we got there.  Meg, Chris and Avery lived in the apartment right next door to us for a year and a half. Avery was 10ish weeks when we moved in and Canon was 14 months. It was the best. Just like in college, we would knock on each other's doors to just hang out and have each other over for impromptu play dates and meals. Meg saw me at my best and worst, as well as my apartment at its best and worst. She was there when I found out I was pregnant with Ben and was the first one to see him when we got home from the hospital. Friendships are so hard to build out of college because you have to plan for them - I can't say enough about wh...

This years Halloween was so fun! I didn't really love Halloween from the ages of 15-28, so loving it now as a parent seems even better. We first had a parade at Canon and Ben's school (where I work too!) on Friday. There was an indoor parade then a walk around to neighboring businesses to trick-or-treat.  Then it was onto the real night on Saturday. Despite a close Clemson game, we gathered at the Spencer's for a few spooky snacks and more trick-or-treating.  Then we were off! There were 7 kids between 3 families and we leisurely walked up and down their street. Some houses were spooky and some gave out full size candy! The best by far though was the last hose which gave us champagne. #win We finally made it home and put the boys to bed around 9pm. I was hopeful the late bedtime would help us with the time change and sure enough it did! We didn't hear them until 6:20 this morning! Daylight savings should happen after Hall...