Happy Birthday to Me!

I had a wonderful birthday today. When I got up Peyton played "Happy Birthday to You" on the piano for me. I loved it. Then I went to the gym and did my very favorite class. When I got home Ryan and the girls had made several cards for me and had 2 presents for me to open. I got a calendar and a bike trailer . I am so excited to use it. They also cleaned the whole house. After presents I got to go out to lunch with my mom, 2 of my sisters and my brother Scott. We ate and had a great time talking. I then went and got a hair cut and met up with some more family. Ryan and the girls took me to Dave and Busters to play games and then took me to Joe's Real BBQ for dinner. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband, daughters, and many other family members who made this day so great. Thanks for all of the birthday wishes from everyone. You made this a fantastic birthday.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We hope you had a great day. We had a wonderful time with my family. We enjoyed talking, eating, and playing outside.

Peyton and Hailey loved wearing the dresses Grandma Ferrell made for them.

We had great weather and were able to eat outside.

My mom did a great job hosting Thanksgiving this year and she was even able to spend a little time holding Alexis.

Alexis looked so cute in this dress. Thank you Jennifer, Deborah, Laura, Lisa, Amy, and Aunt Leslie for the dress. I love it. By the way, Alexis got her first tooth this week. I can't believe how fast she is growing. At her 6 month appointment she was in the 75th percentile in every category.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sacrifice

Over the past 6 months I have had to stay away from dairy because the doctor thinks Alexis is allergic. It has been such a hard thing to do since everything seems to contain some form of milk. I have been getting pretty good about not focusing on the things I can't eat and appreciating the things I can eat until the holidays rolled around. There are so many wonderful treats and foods that I associate with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas that have dairy in them. I have had to ask my family to make some changes to the food they are making for Thanksgiving just so I can eat something during dinner. I don't even like to think about Christmas eve and Christmas morning and all my favorite things I can't have. But in the end I always think about my beautiful baby Alexis and how much she means to me. She is way more important than my favorite foods and she is worth every sacrifice I have had to make. I just need to keep reminding myself so I can have a smile on my face and a good attitude over the next few weeks.

Halloween

Last week was filled with lots of Halloween fun. We started off the week with the annual Ferrell Family Halloween Party. The girls had a great time playing games, eating food, and hanging out with their cousins.

Peyton with cousins Alyssa and Makenna.
Hailey and Grandma Ferrell with their Mummy.

Toss the bean bag in the pumpkin. You will notice in these two pictures both Hailey and Peyton stick out their tongues out when they are concentrating. It must be a family trait.

Pumpkin Hockey

We all made Halloween themed food and the kids had a lot of fun eating the crazy food.

Bat's Blood (Powerade)

Rotting pumpkin (funeral potatoes)

Nose Blow Burritos

Toxic Waste (fruit salad)

Hairy Monster Fingers (garlic bread sticks)

Monster Brownies

Edible Eyeballs (pudding with candy)

Halloween Night we went over to my sister Christin's house and had dinner and then went trick-or-treating. The girls had a great time with their Cardon cousins and it was a great night.

The girls with Grandma and Grandpa Cardon.

My 3 cute girls.

Alexis as a Cheetah.

Hailey as Strawberry Shortcake.

Peyton as Kit Kittredge.

What a great week we had. Thanks to all my family for making it so much fun.