Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving this year was perfect.  Jesse, Dawson and I went and picked up my friend, Amy at the airport around 11.  Amy is my best friend and I am so excited to have her in town for a whole month!!!!  We are going to have some crazy times I'm sure!  Anyways....we picked her up and took her to her parent's house to suprise them for Thanksgiving!  She brought some fast food from North Carolina and had Jesse put it on the porch and ring the door bell and ran.  They were so confused!  Than Amy poped out of the bushed dressed as a reindeer!  Her mom was sooo excited!  They hugged and cried for a good five minutes!  It was so cute and fun to watch them.  They are both amazing people.  Amy hasn't been home for Thanksgiving in 7 years so it was neat.
    Than we headed to Jesse's parents house for a yummy feast.  It was such a yummy feast too!  Jesse's mom is an amazing cook!  I can only hope to be half as good of a cook as she is one day.  We ate and enjoyed each others company.  Than we played games.  Jenn and Brad and Addie were there too, which was so fun because we don't get to see them a lot.  Addie is getting sooo big and adorable!  Her and Dawson love each other.

I am sooo grateful for my family!

 This picture proves how hard it is to get a picture of these two together!  They are still cute!

                                                       

Lori pulled out a bunch of train toys and the boys were having fun with that.
  
I was sad I didn't get a pic of everyone!  I am so grateful for Jesse's family though, they are the best!

 Dawson got lots of love!  Hugs everywhere!  I'm so grateful for this snuggly little guy.
 Jesse spent the night at his parents and Dawson and I were able to go and say hi to my family.  Dawson was very tired.  :)

 

November

I am sitting here typing, looking out the window.  It is a beautiful morning.  It is raining and the leaves are all vibrant.  A lot of them have fallen off, but the strong ones hang on tight to the last little bit of beauty that they have left.  I am learning to love all the seasons and all the memories that they bring with them.  My sweet baby is asleep upstairs; I can hear his soft breathing.  Last night was a good night.  Jesse and I made an apple pie as our cute little Dawson sat in his high chair eating a chocolate chip cookie.  Jesse helped cut up the apples as I did the crust and topping.  At one point I helped with the apples and managed to cut my pinky finger.  Every “a” I am typing hurts.  After we had put the pie in the oven I started to smell something burning.  The pie was leaking and the bottom was burning.  Jesse and I had to clean out the oven.  Our house was very smoky.  Let me just tell you though, the pie was worth it!  So delicious and I don’t usually like apple pie.  It was fun cooking with my hubby.  I love my little family and I love our little family moments that we share together.  Even the small silly moments like making an apple pie and watching our little boy eat a cookie.  Life is good.  Remember to enjoy the small moments Annie. 

Halloween party!

   I'm just going to warn you right now that I'm going to be posting a lot of pics!  Jesse, Dawson and I had a very eventful weekend!  We had our family Halloween party on friday and it was such a blast!  I look forward to this party all year!  Here is the whole gang.  We missed my mom, Steve and Monte.

We had yummy food, games and awesome costumes!

 These two were both dragons!  so cute!  Dawson and Jensen

Love the tail!

Jesse and I were scary skeletons.  I was a little worried that Dawson might be scared of us, but he just kept laughing at us!  Dawson was a dragon.  Jesse looks so scary in this pic!


The next morning Jesse, Dawson and I went to the pumpkin walk.  I have been going for a long time now and I always think it's cool.  Dawson liked it too.  We got some really funny pictures!

 Dawson is Yoda!

 He is looking so big to me!

I couldn't stop laughing at this one!

I thought this one was cute, the pumpkins were carebears!

Than on Sunday we went to Laura's house to carve pumpkins and eat soup!  It is tradition to do this on the sunday before Halloween.  It was fun.  My pumpkin is always kind of boring.....

 Laura always throws a good party!

 Jesse is silly

 Everyone carving!

I thought Jade looked so cute coloring her pumpkin!
Than Jesse and I went outside and let Dawson play in the leaves!

 We had to leave Laura's house early, so I didn't get to see how all the pumpkins turned out.  Jesse didn't get to carve one either, oh well he didn't care.  :)  We were able to go to Jesse's Grandparents house and have FHE with the family.  It was fun to see everyone and I was able to snap a four generation pic!  :)

 That ended our weekend!  It was fun to spend this weekend with family!  We had a good one!  Now Dawson can't wait to go trick or treating on Halloween night!  :)

He loves waving bye bye!!!!

Craft time

   My sister Laura gave me a really cute little rocking chair.  It was pink, so I painted it blue and wrote Dawson's name on it.  I had a fun time doing it.  I managed to get paint all over the place too, ops.  Oh well.  I still have paint on my wrist that won't come off!  ha!  Dawson loves this chair.  He sits and reads books in it, it is adorable.  He also rocks in it.
 

 This little boy is so excited for Halloween!  He is going to be Dawson the Dinosaur!  Roar!

 Love these two

I think this pic is cute.  He is loving books lately. 

 Pic of us three!  :)

Bloody mouth and pumpkin bread

    So I'll explain the title of this blog.....yesterday I had just changed Dawson and he was running around the kitchen (we were at Piper and Brody's house) and Dawson felt smack on his face.  They have hard wood floors, so I picked him up and immediatly saw blood in his mouth.  I told Brody to hurry and get me a tissue and and I wiped his mouth.  I could see a lot of blood by his upper teeth and it looked like he cutt his mouth.  (The part of your lip where skin connects the lip to your mouth)  I called Jesse and told him to come over.  Luckly it was 4 p.m. so he was able to come.  Jesse wasn't worried at all and said it didn't even look bad.  I insisted that we take him to an instacare just to be looked at.  Jesse didn't think it was necessary, but took him anyways because I was being a silly overly worried mommy.  :)  He took him and the doctor said that Dawson's mouth would heal on it's own and he would be fine.  Phew.  I know it wasn't that big of a deal, but it was still scary to me!  Jesse was great to help me out.  Glad this little guy is still smiling and dancing.  He seriously cried for two seconds, he is such a trooper.

    Today was a rainy fall day.  I loved it.  We woke up and went to the gym, came home and took a nap, and now we are making pumpkin bread and dancing to music.   :)  We are loving fall time!  Dawson has got some seriously good dance moves.

     

Hope it is yummy!

Have a good day!  :)

I had to add this pic....love those blue eyes and two little teeth :)

Marathon- The full Monte!

    Well I did it!  I ran my 3rd marathon on Saturday and it was really fun.  I ran it with Melanie, Jake, Steve, and Katie!  We all did a good job!  Katie and I slept at my sister's house the night before and it was fun.  Laura made us a yummy spegetti dinner and we played cards till about 10 p.m.  Then katie and I tried to get some sleep.  (It took me a little while to fall asleep, I was excited.)  We woke up and headed to Huntsville!  We took the long bus ride up, and than had to wait an hour and a half before the race started.  It was freezing at first!  I had like three layers on and a blanket.  Than about ten minutes before the race I had to take it all off!  Brrrrr.  Than off we went!  I was doing really well the first 13 miles.  I was feeling fast and great.  Than mile 14 came....and my knee totally gave out!  It killed.  It hurt and I had a hard time continuing to run.  I had to walk a little bit.  I kept praying for just enough strength to finish.  I was blessed.  It started to feel a little better and I was able to run again.  At mile about 18 Steve passed me and he was very glad to be saying, see ya!  hahaha!  Than at mile 25 I saw Jesse on his bike!  It really helped to see him at this point.  I was so tired that it helped to have him cheer me on!  One mile left!  He said see ya at the finish line!  I ran as hard as I could!  Than I crossed that line and it felt amazing!  Nothing is better than having that metal put around your neck!  This was by far the hardest marathon I have run.  I got 3 hours 53 minutes.  It wasn't my fastest time, but I was still very happy with it.  I did my best and had a fun time.  Running this race reminded me that with the Lord all things are possible and we are able to do hard things!  And do them well!  I am grateful for my body and is able to run.  I had fun and learned a lot.

 This is before the race when it was freezing and we were all getting nervous!

 Almost time to start

 Every marathon I have done Steve has done with me!

    This is when Steve passed me at mile 18!  Go Steve!

Little Climber

    Dawson is such a little climber lately!  I was organizing his clothes and this is how I found him....

He is such a boy!  He is into everything and climbs on everything as well.  I love it!  He is so adventurous.  I just have to keep my eye on him really well.  He also climbs on the rocking chair in his room now, so I had to take it out of there!  He was falling off.  While I was cleaning he also did this.....

Such a little bum  :)  A cute one though.  He hates gettting dressed too.....
As you can see.... chasing him around

He also loves books lately!  All day long we are reading books here and there.  He is cute, he'll go and get a book and come sit on my lap.  We go to the library every Wednsday with Piper, he loves it.

Daddy reads to him too

They are cute together

This past weekend Lori, Melanie and I made this cute witch shoes!  Lori was so nice to let us use all of her supplies!  I was having way too much fun with them.  I made six!  Gave them to my sisters.  I'm excited for October!