Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving was fun and low key. It was just at my parents house with my little sweet, ornery grandma and the urchins. Everything was yummy including the poor little turk that gave it's life to be on our table. We saw an egret and half a dozen of our favorite trashpicker birds having their Thanksgiving too. (Trashpickers flock plentifully in my happy place.)


And although the kids did spend the night again with my mom and dad, Brent and I did not take Black Friday by storm. Instead, we snoozed our wine-tingled faces away and made it out by 8am to be entertained by the invasion of shoppers. We had a little too much fun being idiotic through the storm of crowds.

We also let the kiddos decorate their little rainbow tree together. They were loving every minute of hanging the ornaments and I was loving every second of watching them. Oh, do these babies ooze with cuteness around the holidays! I can't even handle how sweet they are, and sometimes just have to pin one down to take a tiny bite! Christmas nuggets with cinnamon.


The next day, we met friends down on River Street in Savannah to see the Boat Parade of Lights. It was super dinky even though the crowd was huge but the kids loved every second of seeing the Christmas lights and Santas on all the sailboats and yachts. They had a pretty big firework display too which was nice to watch over the river. We had a great weekend, although it ended abruptly on Sunday when the invasion of microbes pulled out the big guns and started firing nuclear bombs. Strep sucks.

The Weekend Before Last

If someone were to ask me when Halloween was, I'm pretty sure my answer would be, "About a week ago." Seriously. Where the heck did November go?! Time has been flying by so insanely fast.

Our Thanksgiving was great but ended with a big dump when strep invaded. Brent and Wyatt are both so sick and it is not letting up. Callie and I are still okay, but she struck up a fever today and my throat feels iffy so I'm cringing at the idea of what I'm going to wake up to tomorrow.

Anyway, I need to post about turkey day and all that, but I really want to back up and blog about the weekend before that because it was so perfect. I had a fun girlie day with Callie while Brent and Wyatt did the boy thing together. We even got to sneak out on a date!

Callie and I went to see Princesses on Ice with some friends. She absolutely loved it and sat like a statue for the full two hours. I got antsy at halftime but miss thing could have sat through an encore presentation. She's been begging to go again and is totally enthralled with the whole ice skating thing.

Brent and Wyatt went fishing together. They didn't catch anything but Wyatt loved eating his lunch on the dock and tending to the pole and crab pot. Then, Wyatt picked to go eat chips and cheese dip at a restaurant. So cute. He loved having all the attention and not having to share the spotlight with Callie. He's a completely different kid when he's one-on-one.

We dropped the little monsters off at the grandparent's house and went out to dinner. We got pretty tipsy at the cutest wine bar ever and started heading home but u-turned it on a spur of the moment spicy tuna hand roll dare at this Japanese place. So fun!

I cringed to have to pick up the kids in the morning because we were having way too much fun together (although I did kinda feel like I was having a hard time breathing without them). It's been terrible how badly Brent and I have neglected each other and I hope that we don't wait too long before we sneak out alone again.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This morning, my Cal said she is thankful for God and Wyatt. The Poods is thankful for his Opa. Precious nuggets. We are spending the morning cooking, watching the Macy's day parade, and online Christmas shopping. We are headed over to the parentos this afternoon to spend Thanksgiving with them and my grandmother and the kids are spending the night over there while Brent and I take Black Friday by storm! (Insert evil laugh here.)

Yesterday, we took the kiddos to see Tangled which was super cute! On the way home, I had to stop to let a flock of wild turkeys cross the street! It was a perfect start to this fabulicious Thanksgiving weekend! We are so thankful for all our friends and family and hope you have a wonderful holiday too!

Nail on the head!

75% Off

The weekend after Halloween was awesome. Brent took that Friday off and we really tried to use every minute to its fullest advantage and spend it together. We didn't have any plans at all and instead, just got in the car and went. We ended up taking the kids to a bunch of different stores to hit up the toy aisles to get ideas for Christmas.

We got a ton of ideas and the kids started zeroing in on their faves. I really enjoyed perusing the 75% off Halloween isles and stocked up on tons of Halloween junk that we don't need. I'll fill up a basket in two seconds in a 75% isle. I don't even care what it is, if it's a crazy good deal, it's going in the buggy.

Right after Halloween was over, I asked the kids what they wanted to dress up as for next Halloween. Wyatt immediately screamed, "Spiderman!" which encouraged Callie to want to be a "Spider princess!" Randomly, we found a spiderman princess costume (I didn't even know that existed) for like 4 bucks. She wore it all day. In every store. A week after Halloween.

Anyway, the next day we let the kids dictate the schedule. Wyatt had been begging us to take him to Build-A-Bear so he could make another friend for the first bear he made. Callie picked out a bunny she named "Mindy" and Wyatt picked out a bear that looked exactly like his first one. He named it "Gordo B". Seriously? Gordo B?! You would think I smoked crack and drank heavily throughout my entire pregnancy.

After that, girlfriend felt the need to chow down at Olive Garden which was the best idea ever! They lurve Olive Garden and if I could crawl inside one of the portabello raviolis, I would. Plus, is there even a better salad on the entire planet? It's a tough call.

When we left, Mindy required a seatbelt.

At the request of Thing 1 and Thing 2, we headed over to Toys R Us. Halfway there, I turned around and saw this:

He never ceases to amaze. He didn't want to take the stickers off to go into the store either but we finally convinced him to take the ones off his eyes so he could see to walk.

Santa's Lap

I have a ton to catch up on, but I'm just going to start from today and work my way backwards. I can't believe how fast these holiday weekends seem to be flying by!

The twinados were kind of sick this weekend and teetered on being both mopey and out-of-control insane. Brent's parents were in town for a quick visit on their way down to Miami and the kids had a bunch of fun terrorizing them on Friday and Saturday. This morning, neither of them were feeling very good at all, but we managed to sneak them out of the house quickly to go see Santa at Bass Pro Shop.


I'm partial to the taxidermied reindeer in the background. Ain't nuthin says merry like a dead Rudolph. Klassy.

Anyway, neither of them hesitated even for a second and climbed right up on Santa's lap. Callie, of course, plunged her stalker cheek deep into Santa's beard. Then Wyatt exclaimed, "I want 1-2-3-4-5 presents!" as he counted them out on his fingers. Callie shyly asked for "Fairy light-up wings."

After they were done, Wyatt got down and screamed, "HEY SANTA! WATCH THIS!" as he proceeded to 'whip his hair back and forth' like Willow Smith. Yep. Santa looked confused and kinda chuckled. The crackhead wouldn't cut it out either and Brent pretty much had to drag the looned bobble-head away from Santa's chair. I'm sure we could safely bet money on the fact that Santa thought our little Wyatt was "special".

Sometimes, I wonder the same.

Happy Halloween!

For me, watching the kids trick-or-treat is absolutely the very best part about Halloween. However, carving pumpkins with a fuzzy Breont, comes in a very close second! The kids were on us about carving pumpkins from the second they woke up so we were literally drinking our morning coffee while scooping out pumpkin guts. Callie was ridiculous. She's divalicious!



She was hell bent on having a scary pumpkin although I tried my hardest to talk her into something sweeter like a kitty cat or something. She's wasn't having it. This was how it turned out in the end with a perfect little W and C signature design by Callie on the chin. (She signed it for Wyatt and herself, and I carved it.)

Brent took hours to design and carve his piece de resistance. I was so excited and tried not to look at it too much until the end. I fell out when I saw the nose! This dude! I swear he hatched out of an psychedelic looking egg on a planet beyond this solar system, and was some how transported to Earth. What's even crazier, is that I sniffed him out and then married him! Wtf. But to be completely honest, being around Brent in his "creative" state is my perfect happy place.

The eyes are 'W's for Wyatt and Wiley (Brent's middle name). The nose is an upside down Mickey Mouse. Lets not forget the "lucky gap" between the front teeth signifying that it's a nympho pumpkin. He's a nut. I do have to say though, his carving skillz seem to step up a notch every year. Anyway, on to trick-or-treating!

The kids were absolutely adorable and even Brent called me from the road this morning to tell me how he couldn't stop thinking about the kids and how cute they were or how Wyatt beat down doors and peeked in windows until someone would answer. Definitely great memories! Wyatt was so funny and took a break halfway through "to sit in the wagon for awhile and eat." Stinker. They are growing up so fast! I feel like they are about to graduate highschool or something and I just need it to slow down!