Annie Kate's Family Shower

I'm really NOT loving all the new changes on Blogger, but oh well, not much I can do about it!!  It's making my pictures do crazy things and centering them wrong and now I've got all this space at the top and can't figure out how to fix it!!! Ugh!!! Enough of that -- let me get on with this post!!  On October 29th I had my very first shower for Annie Kate given by my Mom and sister at Parkway Baptist Church.  It was so fun to hang out with all our family and everybody was so sweet to give us so much stuff for this little girl.

My Dad made these centerpieces!!

 

My sister had this great idea for everybody at the shower to write Annie Kate a note and keep it in this box for her until she's older!! I've been good and not peeked, but I can't wait to see what they say!!

My cousin, Judy, is really into making cakes and she's really good at it too.  My sister asked her if she would make the cake for my shower and she agreed.  She used these sweet baby shoes and headband as the topper!! Soooo sweet!!

Me & Jutz!!!

Fat girl's gotta eat!!!

Here's my mom explaining that the silverware used to serve were actually the baby spoon and fork me and my sister used!!

Yeh, I ate one of each piece!! Not gonna lie!!

Tanner was snoozin' away in the stroller!! He fell asleep on the way to the shower and you never wake a sleeping baby  toddler!!

He just HAD to wear his Mickey Mouse watch that Aunt Z got him from Disney World!!

He was a bit confused when he woke up!!

Starting to open all the goodies....

And I got some really good help!!

Here's Tanner writing his note to Annie Kate to put in the box!! Makes me smile that he loved her even then!!

Tanner & Aunt Bobbie

Tanner & Granny

Blowing out the candles!!

What a nut!!

Daddy came at the end to help us load everything up and take it home.

Thanks for such an awesome shower fam!!!

Charlie Brown at Bass Pro

On October 28th we took Tanner to Bass Pro Shop to have his picture made with Charlie Brown. He's a huge Peanuts fan and loves a trip to his favorite store!!  We also had to shoot the guns!!

Farm Animal Week

The week of October 28th was Farm Animal Week at Hillcrest.  The kids learned all about Old McDonald's animals and then got to dress up as they're favorite one that Friday.  I learned 2 very important life lessons during this week: #1- Never buy a costume that says the size is 2T - 4T.....chances are, it's gonna fit the 2 year old!! Life lesson #2 - Don't wait til the morning of to let your child try on the costume!!! Sweet little Tanner's costume pant legs came up to about mid calf :(  But on a positive note, he did let me paint his nose!!! #overcomingOCD

Betty Sue's Bday

Mimi's birthday was October 15th and after PopPop took her out to eat everybody met at our house for cake and presents. We had a great time and Mimi had lots of help from her grandbabies!!!

Fun Times at the Fair

I'm really not sure if there's another kid in the entire world that loves the Mississippi State Fair as much as Tanner Davis. I mean he LOVES it!!!! The rides, the food, the rides, the lights, the rides, the animals!!! Did I mention he LOVES the rides?!?! We hafta have major discussions about how the fair doesn't stay here all year and how we eventually hafta leave because the carnival workers hafta go to sleep too!!! He needs lots of time to process and prepare for horrible, yet inevitable, fact of life!!! But boy does he have fun in the mean time!!! Me and Scotty both are pretty fond of the fair too, so I guess he gets it honest!!

Mesmerized by the Ring of Fire!!

We love a Funnel Cake!!

Todd & Lauren went with us to see Tanner ride all the rides!! He loves them so much and was so excited they came!! And bless Lauren's sweet heart she was coaxed into riding lots of rides with Tanner since for some reason they didn't let preggers people join in the fun!! Discrimination, I think!!!

Tanner loves to ride the Ferris Wheel with his Daddy. Obsessed is probably a better word. Believe it or not, he rode it last year for the first time (when he was only 2!!!) and has never been the same since!!! It's kinda their thing!!

Jeepin'!!

Wooo Hoooo!!!

Tanner and Lauren riding Betsy Bee!!

And the Dragon Roller Coaster!!!

Tan Man's in the yellow one!!

These race cars were one of Tanner's favorite things to ride and one of the funniest to watch!! They went around a track and then would whip around the curve really hard and fast and Tanner would die out laughing!!! It was hilarious!!

It was almost time to leave and Tanner, of course, had a meltdown. Uncle Todd tried to reassure him that he was gonna get to come back to the fair another day, but he just didn't understand that carnies need beauty rest too!!! Then they started turning all the lights off!! True story.

Nothing like a little Pineapple Whip for the road!!

So that was a week night. Yes, I kept my kid out til almost 11pm. We made plans to go back with my family that weekend and Tanner could hardly wait for Saturday!!!
We'd gotten a new bed and mattresses and had the old ones standing up in our back hallway and Tanner loves for Scotty to drag them out into the living room so we can have a "Slum Party" (slumber party). When we drag them out, it usually ends up with me and Tan on the mattress and Scotty on the couch and then we watch a movie - Tanner's choice. So Friday night we had a Slum Party in anticipation of going to the fair the next morning!! Such fun memories!!

We started off the morning with a pony ride!!! (And one of those free biscuits with syrup!!)

Tanner started off riding with Scotty walking beside him, but then got brave and did it all by himself!!

Playing games with Daddy!!

My Dad and Sister took a spin on the roller coaster!!

And then they shared Pineapple Whip with Tan!!

The car from The Help!!! We'd had a mother/daughter date and gone to see the movie so the car was kinda like posing with a movie star!!

Tanner & Granna dancin' to some oldies!!

She's the wild one.

Tanner & Elsie the Cow!! After he got done petting her he was introduced to strawberry milk!! Now his fave!!

Then it was time for the Pig Races...

Oh the pig races (sigh).... Tanner got picked from the crowd to be a pig rooter. He was assigned one of the pigs and if his won he got a "prize". Well, his did win!!! Then the last race is when they brought out the pot-belly pigs. The actually wanted to pick fat people from the crowd to be the rooters for these!!!! Just keep in mind, at the time, I was nearing the 7 month mark in my pregnancy. And what does my sweet husband do??? VOLUNTEERS ME!!!! And he pointed to my belly!!! The man thought that was hilarious so of course I was a pig rooter for the big ol' pot-bellies!!!! FYI - my pig didn't win bc it stopped to eat. What a porker!!! (In all the madness I forgot to take a picture of the pot belly pig...they were huge. This one was Tanner's!!)

Tanner being awarded his blue ribbon and pig rooter sticker!!

I love that he was soooo pumped up!!!

Another Ferris Wheel ride!!

Dragon Coaster with Da!!

Nothin' like ending with a slide down Old Yeller with Pa!!

Can't wait til next year when all 4 of us get to go!!!!