abby turned 9...

abby turned 9 on october 18th. her birthday festivities were spread out over about a week, and she loved that! the first thing she did was spend the night with gee and papaw on the tuesday before her birthday. the next day she and gee had brunch at cracker barrel and then did some shopping. on the 21st (dad's birthday) we went to gee and papaw's house for a birthday dinner for papaw. while we were there they gave abby her birthday gifts. she also got her gifts from jenna and jett and memaw and papaw reed.

 we had the "official party" on the saturday after her birthday at our house. abby and i decided it would be fun to do a cooking theme. when the girls came in they decorated their chef hats, then they headed to the kitchen to make pizzas. while the pizzas were cooking we played a fun little game where they had to figure out what kitchen utensils were in a bag (without looking at them). next was the best part...eating the pizzas! we followed that up by opening gifts and then the girls got to decorate their cupcakes and eat those. i think everyone had a fun time.

the last of the birthday fun was the allen family birthday's on sunday. jesse made an amazing cheesecake (abby's request) and abby got lots of great gifts.

busy, busy, busy...

well, it has been quite some time since i've posted onto my blog. we had an incredibly busy summer, and fall is moving in that direction as well. we have had a big change since my last post...we found out the day after i last posted that i am pregnant! i am now 20 weeks and things are going really well. we are having a boy, graham edward boyd, and he is due to be here on february 27, 2014. everyone is so excited to meet this little man! i'm going to try to quickly do a recap of some of the things i haven't written about...

in june i took kylie and abby to new york city. we had so much fun. it was a blast showing them around the city and seeing them experience things like the subway for the first time.



at the end of july i said a sad farewell to stella, my mini cooper. we knew that we had to buy a larger vehicle to accommodate our growing family! i've been really happy with the nissan pathfinder that we picked out.

abby and jared started back to school in august. abby is in 3rd grade and jared is in 1st. this post is so behind that they are actually on fall break this week!



this year we did christmas in august at our house. it was fun to host our annual party and everyone had a great time!



we found out in september that our little peanut is a boy! it was a fun night telling everyone : )



also in september, jesse and i celebrated our one year anniversary. we went to hot springs for the weekend and stayed in the best bed and breakfast. it was great to get away and spend time with each other.



mom, stacy, katie and i went to texas to spend some time with julie the first week of october. we went to canton and shopped and then went to dallas and shopped some more! it was a great trip and i had so much fun hanging out with my mom and sisters.



this past weekend we took the kids to the priddy farms pumpkin patch. we all had a good time and they loved getting to pick out their very own pumpkins. 

well, i think that's about it...i'm going to try to do better about keeping up with this blog!