Miss Maren is here!!

My sister-in-law had her baby today at 12:18 pm which makes me an extremely proud 1st time Aunt!!! She is SO adorable! Her name is Maren Maxine. Jess did an awesome job but was pretty exhausted so we left them alone for the day but hopefully will get to go back up tomorrow! Kobe was SO excited to have a new baby cousin! For more pics and updates of their family you can check out their blog at www.smuffica.blogspot.com

Chatty Maddie

We're gettin' crazy!!

Madison has decided to cut loose and kick it during dinner while Matt is out of town...
Is it just me - or has Jackson changed SO much overnight?! He looks like a whole different baby today.
Kobe taught Madison to beat on her chest while making monkey sounds, and to pretend to be Tarzan - it's pretty funny.

Fun at N&B's

Matt left this morning for Oklahoma City for a week for work so we tried to keep busy this evening by going to Nana and Boppa's for a good ol' fashioned Sunday night popcorn supper (yes Steph - they still do this!) Madison follows in suit to Kobe in believing that her Boppa hung the moon - they had quite a few laughs together tonight! And Scholar Madison had us all rolling when she walked out wearing her Nana's glasses (yes I realize she looks slightly boyish in these pictures - I am sure Mrs. Stenger is ready to call child services on me for this...)

Just a few pics

Jackson is just getting so big and he is such a cutie - I had to share these. And to also let you see what happens when Madison doesn't receive all the camera's attention...

Jess' Shower

Last night we had our "golf widows baby shower" for Jess (my sister in law). There is a group of 6 of us that all get together especially in the summer because our husbands all play in a golf league together - so we had our own little shower for Jess and her baby. It was really fun - and she got the usual onesies, blankets, jimmy deans sausages that you usually get at a baby shower... ???? haha... only Tiff. As you can see Jess looks awesome - and she doesn't even have 3 weeks left! We can not wait to meet baby Maren!!

Trick or Treat

We had such an awesome Halloween. Matt and I both got to go to Kobe's school for his Halloween party and parade, and when we got home Kobe had a surprise Halloween package from his Aunt Katie that kept us plenty busy all afternoon making Halloween cookies, Halloween pasta and much much more! Even baby Jax got to help out! Kobe had some friends over to trick or treat with and then went to a buddies house to load up on some more candy. We had a great day / night with the kids!