Christmas Photo Shoot with the Noel gang

The gang at Noel all magically wore the exact same Kelly's Kids Christmas outfits on the first Sunday of Advent! Actually, it was a planned event in an effort to get some cute group shots of all of our precious ones. And as usual, the "photo shoot" was an adventure with lots of laughs! Here are some of the favorite shots we got.

Mathis is eyeing John Kirklin's shoe...looks tasty!

He decides to take a quick bite...

What Mom, I'm not supposed to eat people's shoes?

Discovering the Christmas Tree

We were over at NiNi and PaPa's house helping them decorate their Christmas tree and eating some Gumbo after Thanksgiving and Thomas got to see his very first Christmas tree. He was very interested in it...what a neat, new thing to discover!

What is this thing?

It's a Christmas tree, Thomas.

It's got such pretty, sparkly lights on it!

Can I touch it? Wow! That feels weird!

Two men in the kitchen...cooking up some gumbo...hard at work!

Michael's birthday

Michael celebrated his first birthday! It was so much fun and all of the boys were taking good notes for their own first birthday parties!

Michael opening his presents...and the thing that he is sitting on is the present that we got him with Erin...I think he likes it!

singing "Happy Birthday" to Michael

Mathis, Ella, and Thomas with "Ninna"

Happy Birthday Michael! Hope you had a great day!

Cutie Patootie!

Some cute pics of the main man on a quiet evening at home...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thomas's first Thanksgiving went off without a hitch! He seemed to enjoy himself as well as we all did. Here are some pictures of the day.

The dining room table...set up by Jeanie, Kristen and ErinThe kitchen table also set up by the dream team...don't we do nice work?

Adam drinking a Bloody Mary...this doesn't happen often so I felt that it should be documented

A family pic

Thomas, cousin Nell, cousin Miriam, Aunt Lenore
Hanging with the uncles...Uncle Robert and Uncle NC
Having some bonding time with Uncle Robert
Showing off the Thanksgiving outfit next to the pumpkin

Hope everyone had a great day...so much to be thankful for! Happy Thanksgiving to all!

New Trick?

A new skill that Thomas has picked up...

Bumbo-licious!

We've just recently started trying out Thomas's Bumbo chair to see how he likes it. And he seems to like it very much! What a big boy!

Thomas Laughs!

While we were in St. Francesville, Thomas decided to show us his laugh for the first time! It was after his bath one night and Adam was playing around with him...as you can see he's getting in Thomas's face and is making a silly noise. One would not think that such a noise would be so funny. Thomas obviously thought it was and the laugh emerged! Sorry the picture's so dark but you can definately hear him! Enjoy...we surely have!

Weekend in Baton Rouge

We got to spend the weekend in Baton Rouge with our cousins, the "Baton Rouge" Middletons this weekend for the LSU/Alabama game. We had such a blast...we got to stay in their home in St. Francesville, which was so relaxing! Thomas thoroughly enjoyed himself. He especially loved tailgating...

hanging with Aunt Jane

quite comfy with Aunt Jenna

trying to hold his bottle!

family pic

the girls

Cousin Vernon with dad

we also got to stop by and see Nanee...Adam's grandmother and Thomas's great-grandmother!

Brian's Birthday

We celebrated Brian's 24th birthday. Happy birthday Brian! We went to eat out at the Cub (yummy!) and before we left, we opened presents over at our house.

opening his hunting gear

getting his LSU tickets for the Alabama game

and...drum roll please...

getting his ski boat!!!

Thomas enjoying his fingers

After dinner, we came back over to our house to have birthday cake.

singing "Happy Birthday"...with Brian listening intently

blowing out his candles...make a wish!

the delicious fun-fetti birthday cake Brian requested

Happy Birthday Brian...hope you had a great day!

Costume Party!

We went over to the Morrows for an after-Halloween party to get all of the little ones together one more time in their costumes. We had a variety of characters...from oldest to youngest we had: Ella as Tinkerbell, Jake as the fire man from Fantastic Four, Alice as a princess, Conner as a scary dragon (didn't make the picture), John Kirklin as Peter Pan, Addie as a ladybug, Michael as a duck, Mathis as a tucan, Isaac as a lobster, and Thomas as a giraffe. The photo shoot with all of the kids on the couch was definately a production! Here are some shots from the event.

assembling the troops

all together

tucan, lobster and giraffe...wondering what the heck is going on!

Peter Pan, ladybug, duck, tucan, and lobster

duck, tucan, lobster, giraffe, princess, and Tinkerbell

the fantastic four!

all getting a little tired of all the pictures