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Halloween morning, at the pumpkin patch.
Jeff showing Lincoln that this is actually not a good pumpkin to pick.
Taking a ride.
Carving out the pumpkins.
Decorating the house.
Taking a break. Racing in our front yard.
Our backyard. How could this not be everyone’s favorite season?
Getting ready to trick or treat. Lincoln’s robot costume.
The head was a bit top heavy. Mommy carried it most of the way.
Here are a few pictures I took on a rainy day in our garage looking out at the driveway. Grandma got him this hat. Jeff called it Lincoln’s airplane hat, so now Lincoln never takes it off.
We ventured up to Kentucky to see Alex. He served his mission in the Phillipines. It was a really short trip, but it was really fun. Alex got to see how Ethan and Lincoln have changed and I guess the rest of us look pretty different too. Once again, thought I had taken more pictures but realized it was Robin that took most of the good ones.
I’ll get better at this.
Also I’m about 30 weeks here.
Up at Granny and Pa’s. Lincoln on his favorite thing in the whole wide world. If he could cuddle with this thing at night…he would.
Grandma and Grandpa came out to visit us in Sept! Now everytime Lincoln sees an airplane he asks where Mama and Papa are. We had so much fun! Here are a few pictures I took of them in our backyard.
Here we are at the Botanical Gardens. A very cool place in Nashville.
Down below is Mud Island.
Our duplex in Nashville.
Here is our new place in Memphis. I’ll get inside pictures soon.
Jeff’s parents and sister Emily came to help us. Bless their hearts, they drove all the way from El Paso just to help us move. I thought I had a ton of pictures, but then realized that it’s Robin that took most of them. She’s the better picture taker.
The back of the house.
Finally a backyard for Lincoln.
I had to throw a few pictures of all of us hanging out at Grandma and Grandpas. We spent most of the time on the internet searching for housing in Memphis. Jeff got a call in Jackson Hole with great news. He got the job!
The three and half of us!
So It’s been awhile. I know. Jeff and I talked last night and after thinking our life was pretty boring we went over the past few months and actually….a ton has happened. We had a family reunion, Jeff’s b-day, we moved to Memphis, Jeff started a new job, Jeff’s brother Alex came home from his mission, both grandparents have been to visit and well, we don’t have a new baby yet, but almost. So now we’re caught up. I just have to put pictures up. These next few posts will be short and sweet. I have a lot to do. Enjoy! Oh, these are back from June by the way. None of us look like this anymore. I’m about 18 weeks pregnant here.
Lincoln and his Grandpa.
Would you mess with him?
Lincoln got to tag along our neighbor’s 5 year old son’s b-day party. Heather did a army themed party for Brody and it was so cute and funny. Even the cup cakes had army men on them. They got dog tags and Heather painted some camouflage on all the kids. Lincoln had the most fun throwing the water balloon grenades. Thanks Heather and Destry for letting Lincoln feel like one of the big boys!
My ward decided to do a 50’s theme party last Saturday night. On the poster it said dress up. So I dressed up. I got on the Internet… copied my hair, makeup even curved my eyebrows. I put a “gun” to Jeff’s head about dressing up, but come to find out…50’s style for men really hasn’t changed much. So he wore jeans, t-shirt and converse shoes. He wouldn’t do the greaser look. Since I didn’t own a poodle skirt or peddle pushers, I did the 50’s mom. So we show up to the party and let’s just say I spent way too much time looking the part. I did win best costume though.
After we got home, I had Jeff take a picture of me with my Mother’s Day present. I thought it was fitting. No, Jeff didn’t give it to me and tell me to get in the kitchen and make him cookies. I actually asked for that. My right arm is getting way too buff.
This is just so you can see my hair. I had pin curls. ( I was just informed that pincurls was more of a 30’s thing.)
Below are a few pictures that Jeff wanted me to put up. He had fun with photoshop.
Oh, and I’m pregnant. 3 months to be exact.
One of Pa's many tractor rides from the weekend!
We drove up to Kentucky this weekend and stayed the first night with Nana. We left our camera in the car and forgot to bring it out, but we had a blast with the Chugg family. We all went out to dinner Friday night and did a lot of catching up, then headed over to Aunt Kristie’s house for even more catching up. Then Nana and Aunt Caroline made us an awesome breakfast Saturday as we got ready for the day.
We dropped off the boys at Aunt Kristie’s and we headed off to Keeneland to see the horse races. I wish we could say we came back richer.
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After Keeneland we headed to Granny and Pa’s for a Steak dinner and a slumber party with Austen and Morgan.
Easter morning before church. One of us holds the kid, the other holds the purse. Don't pay any attention to Lincoln's socks either.
Little Morgan was Lincoln’s second mommy this weekend.
We couldn't keep Lincoln off the tractor.
Trying to get him to look at the camera.
Macho Bo, Zach and Jeff hiding the Easter eggs.
Uncle Clay flying his pretty kite!
Endless tractor rides.
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One of my favorite shots from the weekend. Mike & Ethan.
After leaving Granny’s, we stopped by Nana’s again to say goodbye and take a few pictures.
Lincoln with Nana!
Jeff’s parents and little sister came to visit us on their way up to Kentucky. We’re so glad they stopped by. We love seeing family because we don’t have any that live close by. We got them for a full day and they had a ball playing with Lincoln. We met Jeff for lunch downtown and took a few pictures. They left the next morning and then stopped by again on their way back to El Paso. Grammy and Popa brought b-day presents for Lincoln and boy was he was in tractor heaven.
Lincoln getting ready to say his prayers with Grammy & Popa.
It’s been a good weekend.
Jeff took Lincoln and I to the legendary Loveless Cafe which only took us 2 years to get to. It’s very popular and of course on Saturdays it has a very long wait. All for a $10 breakfast….
I could eat Breakfast night and day, so I was a happy camper. The rest of the day we stopped by toy stores to let Lincoln pick out some presents. Jeff and I had given him some trains and cars, but we were wrong. All he wanted was tractors and airplanes.
Jeff teaching Lincoln how to show how old he is.
It was hard to get him off.
We decided to have a little dessert night that Sunday with some of friends. My good friend Heather made a buttermilk chocolate cake with white chocolate frosting. Yes…it was fantastic. Wipe your chin. 
Jeff and I made the train cake for Lincoln and since we had extra batter I made monster cupcakes as well. Obviously there was no theme going on here.
It was a very good weekend. Even
though I’m getting close to 30.
After a friend recommended going to this small, old town, one Saturday we finally got around to doing it. We planned the whole morning around it. 
Figured we would check it out, walk around and then eat lunch there all before Lincoln’s nap. We got there around 9 in the morning and left around 10:30. It’s a really small town. It was absolutely beautiful though.
I definitely recommend it to any of my Tennessee buds who need something to do on weekends. It’s a great place to take pictures too.
If you love antiques, this is a great place to go.
It’s that time of year again for B-days. Happy Birthday to Lincoln, Zac, Ethan, Brigon, me, Keaton in a couple of weeks and Kaleb a couple weeks ago.
Lincoln and I flew out to Utah for about a week to visit, celebrate and take advantage of Lincoln still be a lap child and not paying for an extra ticket yet. We had a good time. We played with cousins, played lots of pool, went to the Dinosaur Museum, ate lots of burgers and fries and then ended with a Birthday party for all the kids.
It was like Christmas again.
Boxes seemed to be more entertaining than any of the presents. Of course.
They didn’t really get chicken fights. Plus, there was a bit of a height difference.
Here are a few more of my favorite pictures. (click to enlarge)
done
This is a video that Grammy and Popa recorded from Christmas and had on their blog. I had to steal it. Sorry. I had to.
Dust & salsa. Probably a lot more than that. Most cowboys in Nashville have a guitar instead of a horse.
While we were in El Paso, Jeff and I were lucky to have grandparents willing to watch Lincoln and get away for a bit. We went up to see La Mesilla in New Mexico. It was like Jackson Hole but smaller and less touristy. And a lot more Spanish looking. It was really fun. We ate at this restaurant which used to be this huge royal house and is now haunted. Billy the Kid used to rummage through the town and was also tried there.
Below is the view from Jeff and Robin’s house. It was really beautiful. And really windy. I was pleasantly surprised at how neat El Paso was.
Christmas Eve both Ethan and Lincoln got a special treat. A Sombrero hat. What’s Christmas in El Paso without a Sombrero hat.
All of us in our matching P.J.s Christmas Eve. Don’t worry Alex, you’ll match next year.
Santa came to visit the boys. Jeff taught Lincoln the wrong words to “Jingle Bells” so Lincoln says “ho ho all the way” when ever he sees Santa.
Mike, Jen and Ethan.
The boys.
The girls. Can you tell by the hair who the in-law is?
Mike’s guilty face.
Lincoln had quite the appetite at Grammy and Popa’s. Grandparents always have the best food. OK we all had quite the appetite. Here he is with a powdered doughnut.
After the powdered doughnut.
And I leave with you with the moneyshot. Feel free to frame.
These are pictures that showed Lincoln’s true colors that day. But we still love them so much. We’ve been told he looks like a thug in the picture above.
Sara would ask him to come sit with us and he would sit 5 feet away. Stinker.
It was amazing that we got him to sit still for any of the pictures. This is what he was doing most of the time. Who knew benches could be so much fun?
We were going to end right here, but I told Sara to go ahead and take the picture. And yes, I will pull the picture out 20 years from now and show all his friends!
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