Pumpkin Time

It's about that time of year, to don our orange, buy some overpriced gourds, and take dozens of pictures, hoping that at least one turns out with both kids smiling.

Success!



Look what I found!



Just chillin'.



Caught smiling AGAIN!



Aw, showing some love for once. No hitting, pushing, or shoving?? I'll take it!

Catching up on Fall

So my plan is to buy a new camera tomorrow, finally. All of these pictures were taken with my iPhone! Here are some things we've been doing so far this fall.

I've been cleaning out our closets, and found some hand-me-down toys from my aunt and her family. One popular one has been this castle set with lots of knights, horses, and dragons. It's a big hit with the kids, and even mommy likes it because of her previous obsession with the legends of King Arthur (love you, Lancelot!).



One of Avery's favorite things to do is to delicately place and arrange things, like her little farm animals, tea set accessories, and now the knights. It's cute how serious she is setting up treacherous scenarios with these sword-wielding and fire-breathing toys.



I thought this was so sweet, my two girls!



Miss Hip Hop Girl.....Jason loves this photo! Her new thing is wearing other people's shoes around the house, so she put on Harrison's tennis shoes and then I put her cute little hat on.....look out, Beyonce.



Making new friends at Caitlin's softball game.

Celebrating Caitlin's big win!

Harrison and I took a weekend trip to NC for Wake Forest Homecoming. Avery was ill, so she and Jason stayed behind. Harrison ended up being kind of under the weather while we were there, but we still had a great time staying with the Gallimores and seeing my old friends from school.

Go Deacs! It was fun to see a big win!

The Big Apple

So I am still without a camera. I don't know what I'm waiting for, but I better get moving quick as Halloween is coming up. I've been eyeing sales and coupons at my fave stores, but nothing has motivated me yet from my slump!

But I digress. Since I have been sans camera since July, I had to buy a (gasp!) disposable one when Jason and I went to NYC in September. You should have seen people's reactions when I whipped that thing out. I thought my friend Dave was going to bust a gut laughing at us. Speaking of Dave, he works for the USTA and gave us FREE tickets to the US Open! So Jason and I took a wonderful vacation to my most fave city in the world. Even more importantly, we had wonderful babysitters who took excellent, loving care of our children while we were gone.....thank you Nana and Papa!

At the Williams' sisters quarterfinal match.



Federer's quarterfinal match.



We saw Matt Damon on the Dave Letterman show!



Dave hooked us up with courtside seats for the Williams sisters. We were unprepared to get an autograph from Miss S, but watched her sign them right in front of us.



It was actually a tough match for them for once, went 3 sets.



In the press room during our VIP tour of the stadium. We walked right past Billie Jean King outside.



We spent many hours at Arthur Ashe.



One rainy evening we had drinks at the revolving bar at the top of our hotel, then dinner with my friend Carla, and then......Mamma Mia on Broadway! It was great, I am officially obsessed with that musical.