Turkey, Turkey, Let's Eat Some Turkey!

The cousins on Josh's side of the family all enjoying turkey dinner at their own pint sized table that may or may not have been borrowed from the church nursery.

This adorable moment was not staged. 

Here's the whole crew that we celebrated with. 

Turkey lunch at school. Ian is such a ham! (No pun intended.)

 HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!!!

Free Chick-Fil-A for a year!

Last week Josh came home from work around lunchtime telling me about the Grand Opening of a new Chick-Fil-A here in town. He said that people were camping out all day and night and the first 100 people would win a year of free chicken. I told him that I'd do it, we laughed, then we seriously considered it. Two hours later I had my camping gear packed, a friend to come with me (hooray for Sarah!), and my husband to handle the kiddos while I earned us some free food. 

We hung out in the parking lot from 1:30pm to 6am the following morning. We were fed free meals and ice cream...there were games with door prizes...a dj had us dancing for a while...they played Toy Story 3 on a projector screen. It was pretty fun. My friend Sarah and I approached two different camera peeps and asked them if they wanted to interview us. We made the cut on the NBC33 news-Click HERE for a good laugh. When we finally attempted to sleep it was only about 3 hours before we were awakened to line up in the freezing cold for our long awaited coupons. I loved it, and would do it again in a heartbeat. Some people we met were at their 7th and even 14th grand opening. There was a group of about 18 Mormons with their babies that all came from Hattiesburg. That's bonkers. I even met someone from Lake Charles. These people love some free chicken, and I don't blame them. 

 In the beginning stages with some door prizes.

 5:30am after a rough night.

  They made us wear these tacky hats and gigantic t-shirts before we walked through the restaurant while the employees banged on medal pans and yelled just as loudly. Then the Manager handed us our coupons packaged in nugget boxes and shook our hands like we were college graduates or something.

Good times!

This Is Halloween. HALLOWEEN!

We went to LSU for two different trick or treat activities.

This was the BOOzar. LSU student athletes handed out candy, signed autographs, and showed the kids how to play various sports. Here's Ayden golfing-he was really good at it and made me realize that the poor kid has never been putt-putt golfing. I see a visit to Celebration Station in our near future. 

The other LSU event was trick or treating down Sorority Rowe. I didn't get any pictures because it was hard to keep the family together through the crowd. The boys got to dunk a guy in a dunking booth. They loved that. They also painted some miniature pumpkins. 

Both events were WAY TOO CROWDED, but fun.

Apparently, I got some autographs of a few pretty talented and well known football players.

We spent an evening carving pumpkins. 

I forgot to get pictures of them before they all collapsed from rot, thanks to Louisiana weather. 

However, Ian got a hold of the camera and Afton's little Hello Kitty pumpkin snuck into the background of his airplane picture. A blessing in disguise! 

Halloween night! I was a super excited about Halloween this year and decided to throw a little party.

We invited the Mangums (of course) and a handful of  friends who either lived nearby or in apartment complexes and needed a neighborhood for trick or treating. I made gumbo, chili, cornbread, cupcakes, salad, and Robin made the creepy crawly punch in the picture. We pigged out, then went around the neighborhood with three wagons and two strollers. We were quite a sight! The kids were all so tired toward the end. At one point Ian said he didn't want any candy and just sat in the wagon. 

We have three paper bags FULL of candy. It's quite ridiculous.

Affie and Annie

Our annual picture with Frankenstein! 

We loved celebrating Halloween, and now we have a lot of Thanksgiving celebrations on the horizon.

In case you didn't notice, Ian was Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, AND Buzz Lightyear (with fangs) this year. What a nut!