:: Just until Noon tomorrow ::

:: Only a few short hours left until the cut off for the "birthday" contest --- make sure you enter it here
- due to some extra grace I found tonight, I've extended the contest until Saturday @ noon...go and enter yourself in my birthday contest! ::

:: Celebrating Thanksfulness ::

:: We celebrated Thanksgiving a couple weeks ago now {I know, shame on me, I'm so behind on here!}. We had a full weekend, filled with family, food, and of course thankfulness ::

:: Here is my little family on Monday afternoon ::

:: We joined with Mr. L's side of the family on Sunday to enjoy a feast - we had smoked meat, turkey & multiple side dishes ::

:: I didn't get any shots of us at the table, it was a bit of a gong show with 4 kids under 3! ::

:: But after dinner due to my youngest child peeing through his pants, we threw 3 out of the 4 kids in the bathtub and oh what a sight that was! Oh, so much fun to have cousins so close in age! ::

:: We enjoyed 2 pumpkin pies, a la Mrs. Kirkland! ::

:: Here is the table all set to go at my parents place::


:: Here is Jacob asking for yet another mint chocolate from Grammies pumpkin, I think he ate three before dinner - or should I say before he didn't eat ANY dinner! ::

:: Here's Cole ready for the party to start! ::

:: And that's it! We had a wonderfully long weekend together as Mr. L also took off the Friday as well as the Monday ::

:: Happy Thanksgiving Y'all - I'm thankful for SO much! ::

:: Happy Birthday! ::

:: I've celebrated a birthday {of sorts} around here over the weekend...can you guess who/what birthday it was that I celebrated? ::

:: Here is Jacob on Saturday night -- he found H-A-P-P-Y B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y candles and stuck them in 1/2 a pound of butter that was in the same cupboard. Then he walked over to me at my desk and said "Happy Birthday Mama" - and reenacted it for the full affect over and over and over again. It was truly very sweet! Paul grabbed the camera and got this shot ::

:: So if you can guess what "birthday" I celebrated this past weekend, you'll win a $75 spending spree at BeautiControl {the SPA products I can't get enough of!} ::

:: So guess away, you have a limited time to guess, this post will be closed by 5:00 pm on Friday evening ::

:: I'll be pulling a name randomly on Saturday morning and posting it by noon -- happy guessing! ::

:: XO, *Shawna ::