Tennessee--Take 2

Brynne and I got back from three weeks (10 days for Chris) in Tennessee  a week and a half ago! It was a good trip overall, but a little tiring for me since Brynne was attached to my hip the ENTIRE time!! She had just started showing a little separation anxiety a week or two before we left, so after a full day of travel, news surroundings and lots of new people, the separation anxiety escalated to the n-th degree while we were there. She is also working on some new teeth! I'm hoping she will be past it all by the time we go back in January. It was a busy three weeks, but we got to see lots of our friends and family and enjoy two wonderful Thanksgivings!

Here are a few pictures from our trip. I never take as many as I should, but this trip was especially difficult.

I never dreamed Brynne would leave these on, but she did for quite a while!

Granny let her play in the fridge...

She really liked the bag of carrots!

One morning my mom made herself some toast and jelly. She tried to give Brynne a bite, but she grabbed like half of it and wouldn't give it up! I promise I don't starve her, haha!!

We celebrated Whitney and Brooke's first birthday!

I have zero pictures from Thanksgiving with my family :( The following pictures I "borrowed" from facebook from Chris' cousin Anne Harris, hope she doesn't mind :)

Anne Harris and Brynne

Everyone checking out the iPad.

Luckily the weather was great so the kids could do this all day!

Turkey coma...

Colin LOVES Brynne!! He really wanted to hold her, but Brynne wasn't too interested so I held him and he held her.



I got some cute pictures of Brynne for Christmas, which I'll post more of later.

We attempted to get a picture of the three babies in the shirts granny made for them... Attempted being the operative word! This was the best we got of all three looking in the general direction of the camera.

And THIS is what most of the others looked like, haha! I can't even imagine how difficult this will be next year... Maybe they will be old enough to bribe :)

Attack of the babies!!

We are now getting ready for Chrismas in 10 short days (we will be doing ours on Christmas eve because Chris has to work Christmas day!). I've wrapped a most of the present and they are under the tree, now I just have to keep Brynne out of them :)



10 months!!

Brynne is 10 months old + a little :) For some reason, 10 months sounds so much older than 9 months!

We are trying to get settled back in after our three weeks in Tennessee! It was a good trip, but still just as busy!! Brynne was pretty much stuck to my hip the entire three weeks, which was a little exhausting, but I do have a few pictures I will share in another post. I'm hoping by our trip in January she will be past this stage! She also picked up a cold or virus or something right before we left, so between that and the full day of traveling, she slept pretty much all day yesterday... She was so pitiful.

On Saturday, November 26 Allison took some family pictures for us! Brynne wasn't overly thrilled about it, but we managed to get a few good ones... out of over 200! haha!

For some reason this picture won't upload all the way, but you get the idea...

And just to keep it real, this is what 99% of the pictures looked like, haha!

This month flew by, Christmas is almost here and then it will be time for the 11 month post! We finally put up the tree tonight and hopefully I will get our christmas cards out before Christmas!!

Tomorrow, Tomorrow... It's only a day away!

This time tomorrow, Brynne and I will be in Tennessee! I am so excited and can't wait to see everybody!!

Sagatagan Lake

A couple weekends ago the weather was perfect so we decided to go for a short walk. I tried to post about it before, but the pictures wouldn't upload! Chris remembered the area around the pumpkin patch we went to being beautiful and he wanted some more apples, so we decided to go back there. We drove through the campus of St. John's University and ended up at Sagatagan Lake. We loaded Brynne up in the infant carrier and quickly decided it was time to invest in a bigger, sturdier backpack carrier... It was a tight squeeze! We have since gotten a much better pack for her! Here are some pictures from the lake.

She was so excited that she waved at everything!

And we saw this face pretty much the whole time!!

It was so pretty. We wish we had found it back when all the leaves were changing!

Brynne also patted Chris on the back a lot, haha :)

It was time for Brynne's nap, but I just had to get her picture with the pumpkins :)

On top of it being nap time, there was a guy playing music and kids running all over the place, so needless to say I wasn't able to get a picture of her looking at me AND smiling. Oh well, still pretty cute anyway!

We will definitely be keeping this place in mind once the weather warms back up in the spring!

Blue Jeans

After looking E.V.E.R.Y.W.H.E.R.E. I finally found some jeans that fit over Brynne's thighs! :) Here she is modeling them...

So cute!

Thank you Old Navy for making baby jeans that are very stretchy in the back AND that unbutton, because without BOTH I would have never found jeans to fit my cutie daughter!! :)