First Weekend of College Football

For the first Saturday of College Football we fried turkeys and had friends over! We had a good time with good food, good friends and good football!
Thomas' and Dad in their ND jerseys ready for the game!

Lilly, Grace and Thomas!

Thomas sat with Lilly on the couch for a while...he loved it!

My handsome guys!
Thomas giving Dad a big hug before Dad's big interview!
FYI...he got the job! Woo-Hoo!!!

Thomas on the official first day of College Football! Our Carolina Gamecocks got a win against NC State. Thomas rocked his Carolina jersey the whole day!

He is getting better and better at climbing up things. He isn't the greatest at getting down though. He is screaming in this picture because he can't get down!

My baby boy!

Janet's Visit

Our friend Janet came up for a visit a few weeks ago. Thomas loves having more than just Mommy and Daddy around to play with!

Mable also loves to have guests!

Janet and Thomas playing with Rumer the frog.

While Janet was here we also had our Fantasy Football draft. Steve and Jess also came down for the occasion. Ryan and Pete, who live in town, came over as well.

Mable's D.O.C. bear behind bars!

Notre Dame trip

We recently went up to Notre Dame to see the LSU Volleyball team play in the Shamrock Tournament. We also got to spend time with our friends Steve and Jess before they moved. The above picture is in front of the ND Administration Building. This was Thomas' first trip on the ND campus.

A few of my co-workers from LSU! Geaux Tigers!

Thomas has recently learned to do the touchdown signal! He was showing it off in front of "Touchdown Jesus"!

Dad and Thomas sitting on campus.

Thomas giggling like mad!

Each trip we come to ND we have to come to this spot, which is my second favorite spot on campus. We took our engagement pictures here. Thomas is again showing his touchdown skills.

TOUCHDOWN! Hopefully he will be doing this a lot this football season!

A statue on campus, "Jump Momma Jump". Beautiful with spider webs.

Thomas' first trip to the grotto. By the way he is walking all over the place now!

He helped me light a candle.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA PAULETTE

Thomas is squealing with delight to say
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA PAULETTE"!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLYN

A big Happy 3rd Birthday to our god daughter
Ashlyn Ryan!
We love you and miss you very much!

More August

A beautiful sunset from our back door.

A stick bug (pretty sure that is not the scientific name)! Can you find it? I had never seen one in real life...it was COOL! It scared Mable to death....she jumped about two feet in the air when it moved.

Thomas is doing a lot more walking on his own these days. He gets so excited that he is doing it he has a huge smile on his face. When he falls Tommy and I started clapping so he wouldn't think it was a bad thing. Well...that may not have been the best idea. Now Thomas will stand up and take like three steps, sit down and clap! It is super cute though!

I am watching a friend's baby girl, Mia, a couple days a week and so far Thomas has had fun with her.

Poker face!

Fun with shutter speed! This is actually the moon.

Laying with Mommy.

Wearing Daddy's hat.

The "combover"!

You see that smile? That is a "I just did something wrong..hehe" smile! He pushed a toy over to the chair and used it to climb onto the chair. Then he proceeded to take about 50 wipes out of the container and spread them all of the chair! FUN!

Thomas, Tommy and baby Mia.

I got him up one morning and was changing him...didn't even notice he had THREE pacifiers (which he only uses when sleeping). I am not really sure how he got all three!

Indy Zoo Trip

Our first attempt at going to the zoo was canceled by storms. Here Tommy and Thomas watch one of the storms roll in.

Jess read Thomas his safari book since we didn't get to go to the zoo.

Thomas is ready to go to the zoo in his frog shirt and Hawaiian shirt like Grandpa Aron!

Thomas watching the sharks swim by. He tried to touch a couple but they didn't get high enough in the water for him to reach them.

Thomas at the elephants. He wasn't super excited about the zoo. Maybe in a few more months!

Steve was very excited though! He even got to touch and elephant butt! hahaha...

And it was a good thing he didn't wait a few more minutes!!!