The McFamily

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Thanksgiving Feast at BES

Our little guy had his first Thanksgiving Feast at school. The parents joined the kids in the cafeteria to have a wonderful lunch of turkey and dressing, cranberry, ambrosia, green beans and dressing. Cody's favorite was the chocolate milk and roll. :) It was fun to eat lunch with him and his sweet class!

His class made a Mayflower and pilgrims.

Lanier Under the Lights 5k

It was my first 5K since May. Don't judge me.

Now that I have THAT out of the way...Kara and I decided to take on the Lanier Under the Lights 5k. Her sister's family decided to do it as well. It was beautiful! The fall colors were beautiful as the sun set. Once it was dark, the lights were beautiful!

This was my finish time, but add 5 minutes. Yes, I took a short cut to catch up with long legs Kara. Like I said...DON'T JUDGE! :)
At the end of the 5k, we posed for a picture. We had a great time and I hope to get another one under my belt before April and break 40 minutes!

Almost there...

...but we are still champions! Our beloved PRYAA Red Sox are second place champions! We had a fantastic season, but three evening games in a row took a toll on our sweet 4-6 year old boys. They played hard, but fell just a little short. We love our coaches and sweet team and will always remember our season!!
This picture sums up our season so well. Way to go boys!!

Monday, November 8, 2010

Halloween....Top Gun Style

This Halloween, my little guy wanted to be Mavrick from Top Gun. He has seen the highly edited TV version of Top Gun and LOVES the Tom Cruise character. We had two Halloween parties this year.
On Saturday, the Campbells and Dyers hosted an AMAZING Halloween party that my parents came up for. Mom and Dad went as a leaf raker and a pile of leafs. They won the adult funniest costume! I went as a boxer and my men went as Mavrick and Viper. There were some amazing and fun costumes and the food was amazing as usual. They went all out with decorations and even had a kids carnival in their garage complete with bobbing for apples!
Halloween night we got with the Duttons, the Sakaris, and the Wrights and had a game of backyard football, a yummy dinner and trick-or-treating complete with a hay ride! We came home with so much candy and it was fun trick-or-treating with friends!

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Pumpkin Patch

We went to Burt's Pumpkin Patch and Uncle Shuck's Corn Maze with the Duttons and the Sakaris families. We had a great time finding out the pig was to blame for the missing farmer at the corn maze and picking out our pumpkins. The crowds were insane since the Ellijay Apple Festival was also the same weekend, but we braved it and had a blast!!

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

NATIONALS...HERE WE COME!

The Red Sox won tonight! It was a nerve racking game. In the top of the 3rd inning, we were down to the Braves 2-7. Then, going into the bottom of the 5th we were winning 16-8! They scored some runs on us, but we held them to a 16-12 win! We play the Nationals (who put us in the losers bracket) tomorrow. If we win, we also play Tuesday for the championship. LET'S GO RED SOX!

Red Sox Baseball!

We switched leagues this year and are now on the PRYAA T-ball Red Sox. We have had a GREAT season, with a 9-0-1 record. We lost the first game of the playoffs but are still in the tournament because of double elimination. Our game tonight determines who from the losers bracket goes to the championship game. GO RED SOX! Here are some pictures from over the season. We've had great coaches (and daddy has coached this season) and we are a "family" which is fun!
We had to play 1/2 game in the POURING rain. I think the boys liked it!

We played CHAA this season along with our PRYAA teams, so he was able to play his friends' teams! SM was on the Blue Jays

Some of the coaches and two boys with their game balls.

The night we played CHAA Red Sox was a little confusing because we all looked alike, but had a blast! J and M are on the other team (who won the CHAA Championship this season).

Saturday, November 6, 2010

My Life...My Love

The wonderful and talented James Adam Hill (www.jamesadamhill.com) photographed my love. This was a feather bed session. James and Michelle put this huge feather bed outside their studio and let him go wild with the feathers. There were so many OUTSTANDING photographs we had a hard time choosing which were our favorites. Enjoy the beautiful work!

Friday, November 5, 2010

2nd 5K

I ran my second 5K on May 2nd. I ran it in 40:58 which was 8 minutes better than my first 5k! WOO HOO! This was a much smaller race and there were not many hills unlike my first 5k. I am excited to run another soon!!

Meeting Canaan

Look at this beautiful face! Sweet Canaan was born August 17 and we finally were able to meet him.

Little man LOVED holding him and claimed him as his own. He didn't want to put him down the entire time we were there.

First day of School!

I can't believe my baby is in Kindergarten now! Time passes so quickly. He is loving school and is such a smart little guy. On his first day of school, we started out early so I could walk him in. We of course had to take a few pictures on our way out of the house.

He wanted to pose in front of the car rider entrance on the first day. This is actually the back of the school but right at the Kindergarten - 2nd Grade hall.

Such a big boy! He headed down the hallway ahead of me, excited about starting his new school!

His teacher, Ms. Hadden, helped him with his new morning routine. We LOVE her and are so happy to be a "Hadden Hopper!"

Sitting at his table, ready to start school.

I am proud I didn't have a single tear until I was sitting in car rider line and saw this happy guy headed to his car. Then I shed a few happy tears for the grown up little man he is becoming.