Surgery

Sweet Mark had his 3rd surgery today. Tubes and adenoidectomy. To spare you the scary details, he made it out of the surgery just fine and is hearing much better. He was even holding his ears with the loud noises. He was just as upset as he was the first time coming out as anyone who has ever been put under knows - anesthesia is just no fun. We will be keeping a close eye on his ears for a while. He has just inherited bad ears from his mom. Can't do much about bad genes. Poor kid.

Our kids love animals

One thing I am truly grateful for is that our kids love animals and are loved in return by their animals. 

New Bikes from Santa & New Helmets from Grandma Lisa & Papa Mark!

December 20th

By this time I would have trimmed the tree, had decorations up day after thanksgiving and cards out but we are just now getting to trimming to our tree this year. We decided to put in hardwood floors and I am so glad we did. They are so beautiful. I'm ready to do the rest of the house! :)

Here are a few pictures of us trimming the tree this morning. And one of our new floor. 

Ella's Birthday Party

Enjoying the Presents from the party

Mark at batting lesson

Lessons are paying off!

Preview of our photo shoot with Reno

Pictures that I chose will be on the Christmas card. Hope to get it sent out next week!

Happy Birthday sweet Ella

Ella's 5th birthday!

Got a good picture of Ella blowing out her candles for her fifth birthday and.

Batting lessons

Happy Halloween!

Ghouls at Grassmere and pumpkin carving!

Ella's pumpkin 

Mark's pumpkin 

Lilys pumpkin 

Gatlinburg

Typical Wednesday

3 games for these 3 kiddos. Busy night, but wouldn't trade it! 

Smiley Hollow

Mark and lily both made it to the top of the rock climbing wall. Ella was like nah I'm getting my face painted. :)

Ella's game

5 outs tonight including a double play made by Ella. The Braves won 11-5. Excellent first win and an even better job done by E. She missed a few but the ones she got were awesome. She plays first base, but even chased down a kid to second and tagged him out. That's my girl!

Brother & Sisterly love

Sometimes they actually like each other...

Fall Fest cont.