On thursday night we had our family pictures

taken. when we got home the kids wanted to

take pictures of their stuff animals and their

toys or pictures. so these are the ones they took.

Cailyn 8 1/2 months

Andrew had just left and Cailyn came

up to the table and pulled herself up....

I was homeschooling 3 kids but I guess

now I have 4 that want to learn :)

She is so rotten :)

posing with her first hair bow

I took her hair bow out and this

is what she did...I think she liked

her hair bow :)

if i thought I was busy before now I am really in for

it....Cailyn is getting herself around...may not be

crawling but she "hops" around :)

Gaylord Hotel

at the Gaylord hotel they have fountains that dance to music

Gaylord Hotel

brett walking down to the hotel

Andrew and Cailyn all bundled up

going into the Gaylord Hotel

the famous glass tree hanging

the water fountain

the kids enjoyed watching the train

they had a scavanger hunt for the kids...

they had to find all 9 panda bears throughout

the hotel lobby...brett and I even had fun looking

for them


the main lobby of the hotel

Saturday we were invited to go bowling with the Bohac's for Isaac's birthday. The kids had never been bowling and in fact this was duck bowling. The balls and pins were little :) They had so much fun and even brett and I did too. I think I did more than brett since I beat him :)
nathanael and madison didn't do too bad either. Nathanael's score was 77 and madison scored a 63. Not bad for their first time. so enjoy the video of their first bowling game :)

Peek a Boo :)

eating Thanksgiving dinner with
the Bohac family

Cailyn had lots of attention from their boys

playing skip-bo...and the ladies won!

Cailyn loving on Madison

thanksgiving 2008

When we were driving home we hit some

snow...it was so pretty! But once we

were near Knoxville, the snow was gone :(

granny playing with Cailyn

granny playing I Spy with Nathanael

Even though it was only 35 degrees

outside the boys still went golfing...

good thing was that the golf place

allowed them to golf for free since he

thought it was too cold for anyone

to be golfing :)

Ashley and Shannon preparing

the big country breakfast on Saturday

the cousins enjoying being together

the kids watching a movie with granny

the girls enjoying some time with mommy

our Thanksgiving meal...brandon flew in

that afternoon just in time for dinner :)

The Lay clan

grandpa and granny and their grandkids