a shonnie bear baby shower & dr. g changes a diaper (a success!)

Shonnie Bear and Chris are expecting Baby G early next year - it is SO very exciting! Last Saturday we held a baby shower at Patterson's house for our dear friend. Check it out!

here are the yum yums, and they were yummy

please look at the drink dispenser on the left (it's
mishi's) - i am obsessed with it (must. have. it)

these are the party favors, they are recipes of the dishes we served

quicki quichie made by mishi

shon, chris and trent

brandi and chandra

i took a picture of trent, mrs. graham (grandmommy
to be) and chris taking a picture

shon opening gifts (there were a million, i cannot stress to how much
they cleaned up. family members showed their love by giving big
ticket items and having them shipped to their house - SMART!)

rowdy is with his auntie beth and jo, megan and mary ann look on

brad and mr. cassady make an appearance
(please not cassady's tuft of hair on top - it's awesome)

hahahaha, jo wrapped the card inside the gift

For the first time ever, Chris changed a diaper. Better get used to it - hahahahaha! Anywho, he did a perfect job!

here we go...taking off, cleaning up and putting on

voila! a complete success

We then watched some football and ate TOT, here is a picture of Shon talking to Matt after he made a remark about Georgia.

matt is in troubbbbbble

they make her want to drink (no bowl game this year)

Anywho, I will try to steal photos as they come up. I was busy with the shower and I didn't take as many photos as I would have liked.

I meant to put these up in October, better late than never. Mike ran his first (and last I think) marathon in Chicago. Way to go! When Matt and I lived in Chicago the marathon ran on our corner, we would go out with coffee in hand and cheer on runners. It was so much fun, we would always see people wearing UT stuff. Cool.

run mike, run
(that's 26.2 miles, people)

And here is Harlan in his Halloween costume, he was Tigger.

becce said that harlan went nuts after he figured out trick or
treating, he RAN full out to each house yelling "I NEED CANDY"

And now, a few interesting reads for you...

• No more Santa for you!
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• Here is your complete guide to Thanksgiving television. Eat some turkey and veg out for a few days.
• If you like to read or need holiday gift ideas, here is the list to the National Book Award winners.
• Forbes names Hollywood's most overpaid actors.

I am so ready for turkey, gobble gobble. The next time I post it will be from our new iMac. I am so excited! We ordered on and it came with a cracked screen. Bleh. But we should be set up tomorrow.

Have a happy Monday!

brother and sister, 100% rowdy, a deeee-lish dinner & lottie sue works her guns

Rowdy is three weeks old today, it seems like he was born just yesterday! Anywho, he is packing on weight, this boy is NOT afraid to eat (and eat and eat) and he's gained over two pounds since leaving the hospital. He's really filling out and he has that strawberry blond hair that Lottie Sue had when she was his age. He is looking less like an old man and more like a little baby, ha! His favorite things to do are: EAT, sleep and cuddle with anyone. His love language is physical touch, no doubt about it. We are working on getting him on a day and night schedule and so far it's going well. He will sleep all night with no crying, so we can just pop in there to feed him and he goes right back down. He's becoming more alert during the day and likes to look in the direction of lights.

Lottie Sue has been a dream with him, we keep waiting for her to act out at home or at school but so far she's been her usual lovely self. She is very into "baby brother" and she likes to help with him, it lasts about three seconds but at least she shows interest I guess...

Matt had a photo session with them last night and here is what we have. Rowdy doesn't really cooperate that much and Lottie Sue won't get out of any shot. She wants us to take her picture so she can then look at it on the view finder. Here are our kids!

isn't he ADORABLE???

little brother, big sister

Beth came over last week to meet the little Mr. Mowrer. Upon her arrival Lottie Sue went NUTS, she loves loves loves her some Beth. When Beth left she asked me where she went and when she was coming back...

three pretty adorable people

Beth ALSO gave us a SAH-WEET gift for Rowdy - CHECK IT OUT! I LOVE THESE ONSIES!!!

yes, beth rocks

This past weekend the Gilmores were in town for the Georgia game (IN YOUR FACE, SHON - loveyouthoughkisses) and we (I mean Matt) made a deeee-lish meal and invited the Smiths over as well.

megan gets way excited over lottie sue's meal

matt used some of his beef reduction that
he made himself (a six-hour project)

sawn and ris (as lottie says)

tommy and megan post meal, thumbs up y'all

i don't remember what i was doing to crack this
child up,but she was laughing laughing laughing
(love her)

all the girls and rowdy (and baby g)

Lottie Sue likes to eat well and stay in shape, she consistently works out her guns.

she really works hard, she grunts a lot during the reps

Lottie Sue LOVES to play "nite nite" - it's a game in which she commands you to act like you are asleep. She has been playing this game since she could barely speak. She loves to put items to bed; dolls, books, shoes, people and so on...

I snapped this photo of Elmo and Cookie last night, I saw she had them in bed before she went down for the evening. Too cute.

elmo and cookie are out like a light

I leave you with this photo of Cass, Patterson sent it to me last week and he's to cute not to publish. Go vols!

patterson said he loves to watch football on the telly

OK, I am amazed I actually created a post - I rock! Life is busy with a newborn but we are enjoying it, I would of course like more sleep but I can function without it for the meantime. Just don't ask me to do any math.

homegrown, a baby boy bbq shower, marty jumps out of a perfectly fine plane & mrs. c

Hi all! Check out the tomatoes and okra, these came out of Grandma's garden. YUM! The tomatoes have been in lots of meals and Matt made the okra the other night - it was delicious.

grown with luv

So, here I am at week 35 - gulp. I am now on orders to "take it easy." That means I basically have to stay off my feet (with them up) and have Matt be my own personal butler. He is, as always, awesome - but I am pretty bored and feel like a BUM. Oh well, I will have plenty of opportunities to help out once baby boy arrives.

Anywho...Carrie, Patterson, Megan and Shon threw a BBQ Baby Shower for us over the weekend - it was GREAT! The food (um, enough to feed an army) was excellent, the flowers (by Mary Ann) were gorgeous and a great time was had by all. We also came home with a carload of baby gifts. Here are some photos for you to enjoy...

matt and marty chat it up

chris and chris enjoy a laugh

it's kitty kat! she came all the way to knox vegas for our shower!!!
(kisses!!!)

carrie, moi, kat and shonnie bear (nice baby bump!)

marty and shawn (looking so cute, love the dress)
(ps - marty had plans to jump out of a plane
the next day...more on that below)

lila, marty, shawn, mary ann and megan pose for a shot

carrie, p-dub, moi, kat, jo, amy and shonnie bear
(yes, we know we are cute)

this one cracks us up, jo got caught in the flash

here we have matt opening the cutest bibs ever

carrie bought an outfit for baby boy AND one for lottie sue
(yes, they match - awesome)

jo and patterson laughing at something

shonnie bear and kitty kat, reunited

here i am opening gifts and carrie is texting

it's me, my nose and jo

the boys discuss football or something like that

Earlier I mentioned that Marty was going to jump out of a plane - WELL HE DID. What a nut. I stole these photos from his crackbook page.

superman

he made it! he made it!

i think this photo must be marty coming in for his landing

Alrighty, I am about to run out to pick up baby girl from school. This morning she walked into church on her "tippy toes" - just like a balrina. She is too fun, we love her bunches.

PS - I meant to post a photo on this earlier BUT the one I had was not so good. Lottie Sue had MAJOR stink eye and I was waiting on Carrie to post about it. To my disappointment, Lottie Sue had the stink eye in her photo as well. Oh well, can't win them all...

Carrie's mom was in town last month, all the way from Vegas and we had lunch together. Mrs. Conyngham is an avid reader of our blog and it was GREAT meeting her. She had a gift for Miss Thang, thecutestdressyou'veeverseen - a photo is coming. Thank you again Mrs. C!

our meet and greet

Alrighty, toodles!