More Throne Thanksgiving pics

Here are some more pics from Thanksgiving I'd thought I'd share!

Thanksgiving!!!

What a fun Thanksgiving! We had lots of good food, and so did Nala! She got a special Thanksgiving kitty meal... not that she needs any more food, but I do love to spoil!

...And Nala taking her Thanksgiving nap. That eating wore her out!

On Thursday, we spent the day at my parents house for the Pelletier-Yeats-Shipman Thanksgiving. We had 16 adults, THREE babies, and FOUR kids ages 2-4. It was a full house! Christmas will be even more people! It's so fun! Mom and Memere made all the food, which was delicious as always! Thanks Mom and Memere for all your hard work year after year!

All the guys enjoyed playing as always... this year it was Rock Band! The poor guys had to move to the garage with all the napping kids.

And here are the three sweet babies we got to play with! First up is Annie, my second cousin. She was super cute in her brown sweater dress and striped stockings! It was the first time I ever got to just sit and play with her.. we had fun!

And here is Miss Kaitlin! She was soooo pretty in pink that day!

And Mr. Isaac. He was in the garage watching his daddy sing!

Here are some pics of me and Jackson! He loved the camera! He's such a sweet boy.On Friday, we spent the day in Iredell with the Throne family. We had a Mexican food day! We had yummy Turkey enchiladas! We also had four pies to share among the six of us.. you can imagine how good that was! =)

Here is the picture of the festive turkey hanger we gave Matt's mom for her Bday. I thought it was so cute, I had to take a picture! You can also see the wondeful fall-looking trees in the background!

After our big meal, we decided to go for a walk. Matt and I also loaded up lots of rock to put around our pond.

Here is Andy and Owen. Notice Owen's cute shoes!

Here is Owen in his cute snowflake onesie! He was a sweet boy!

Here is my buddy George. He's a Nala look-alike! (except much thinner)It's now Christmas time! The Sunday after Thanksgiving, we put up our Christmas lights and our Christmas trees!

Matt has a firefighter themed tree in his office.

And here is our other tree..

Nala enjoyed all the Christmas decorations. Here she is playing in the tissue from our ornaments... she also pooped in the tissue and peed under one of the christmas trees. She gets confused at this time of year.. she sees trees and thinks she outside. We had to hurry and wash the tree skirt and put presents underneath so she wouldn't get too carried away! Silly cat! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We sure did!

New House Pics

Here are some pics of our new house... courtesy of Matt's parents. Thanks!

Our living room...

Matt's office...

Another view of Matt's office and his new tv...

Today, Matt started building our pond in the backyard so we can move our fish over from the old house. It looks great! He's such a talented and hard working husband!
Our puppy dog, Maverick. He's tired from all the pond digging. It seems like whenever Matt is outside working, it wears him out! =)

Happy Birthday, Matt!

We had a fun weekend! Matt's parents came in on Saturday and stayed the weekend. Matt's dad helped install our new dishwasher, while his mom and I did some shopping and ran some errands. We had a fun day! That morning I had suprised Matt with a new LCD tv for his bday, and his parents brought him a new home theatre system with surround sound speakers. He was so excited! Once they got it all hooked up, he pulled out Top Gun and blared it at 11pm. I'm sure the neighbors were thrilled, especially after our dog barked all day. ;)

Sunday was Matt's actual bday. After church we had everyone over for some good bbq and birthday pies. Matt's not a cake eater, so he requested a pumkin pie and buttermilk pie. They were yummy!

Matt and his birthday pies...
Andrew enjoyed the Happy Birthday song. I think he was trying to figure out if everyone was singing to him. He's so sweet.

Matt got some good presents from everyone! He's the fastest present opener! I think he just couldn't wait to see what else there was. I gave him a fireman birthday card that made a siren sound when you opened it... a very loud sound... Andrew loved it!

We were sad Memere and Paw Paw couldn't come! Matt loved his bookends and matching photo album! He went right in his office and found a place for them!

Thanks for everyone for coming! Sorry, I couldn't take more pictures of everyone. My camera doesn't take pics of people very well.. everyone comes out blurry! Hopefully we'll have a new camera pretty soon, especially since we have a blog now!

It's Official!

We now own TWO homes! Hopefully not for long! Here is a sneak peek!

Weekend Wrap Up

Wow! What an eventful weekend! Matt worked a 48hr shift (Thursday-Friday) this weekend. On Friday, our Memere was taken to the ER after a violent reaction when she was having her port flushed out. She spent her Halloween evening undergoing lots of tests and scans and laying in a hospital bed... no fun! Thankfully, all her tests were clear, so she was able to leave the hospital that night. She will be undergoing more tests soon to make sure everything is still okay with her port. Memere, we love you and are praying for you! After we got home from the hospital that night, my mom and I continued our tradition of wrapping our Christmas presents. We ended up wrapping until 1:30 am that night! We were tired the next day!

Happy Belated Halloween to everyone. I've never been very excited about this particular holiday, since I've always hated dressing up and some people go so overboard with it all. I am glad however, that there are Church Fall Festivals now for all the kids. I enjoyed getting to see my neice and nephews in their costumes (well pics at least).. they were all so cute! Cute enough I had to post pics of them all!

Mr. Isaac was a pumpkin... the cutest pumkin EVER I might add!
Miss Kaitlin was a pink princess! She's such a beautiful girl! Lookout boys!

Mr. Andrew the Fireman! He loves playing fireman.. he sure makes a cute one too! We look forward to him taking after his Grandfather and Uncle! ;) Andrew loved all the candy!

Mr. Owen in his "First Halloween" outfit. He's soooo cute! He's getting so big so fast and we are sad we can't see him more often! He made a cute dinosaur for Halloween.
My honorary nephew.. Mr. Will. He went as a monkey! He's so cute! My friend, Heather, said that he kept getting so hot in his costume while out trick-or-treating. He had to keep stopping and taking juice breaks! He also enjoyed talking jibberish to all the nice people who answered their doors. He will be 2 in January.

On Saturday, Matt and I ran around taking care of some errands..nothing real eventful. We did have two people come see our house. We close on our NEW house TODAY!! yay! We appreciate everyone's continual prayers with everything. God has truly blessed us!

The "Life of Riley" as my mom says... On Saturday, every time I walked in our guest bedroom, there was Nala... She was literally there ALL day... I had to share these. Sorry to those of you who aren't animal lovers. ;) I don't have "real" kids yet.

On Sunday, I went with my parents and grandparents (Matt was working) to First Baptist Dallas to see Annie, my second cousin, get dedicated! The church was awesome and I loved their pastor! And of course, Annie was cute as a button! We had a lot of fun! After the service, we all gathered at Amy and Jordan's house for lunch and great company! We had a great time.. thanks for letting us share that special day with you!