Favorite Fall Weekend

The weekend before Halloween some of my favorite things happened all in one weekend: good friends coming to visit, getting to love on a baby, a good festival, and a house full of people. The Bettises came to visit from Indiana and brought precious Ruby to meet us. Love is all I can say! We went to Pumpkinfest, had friends over for the UT game on Saturday, Gentry Farms on Sunday, and then had a bunch of friends over to carve pumpkins on Sunday. I wish every weekend was just like it!

 Bonnie and Ruby! Melts my heart!

 Pumpkinfest

 Bonnie couldn't  wait to hold Ruby.

 Conlee and Ruby were born just one day apart:)

 Will, Ansley, and Bonnie on the tire swing at Gentry's Farm

 Sweet Friends

 Hayride

 Look this way, guys!

 Pumpkin Carve finished products

The dads were hard at work.

Little Vol Walk and Homecoming

We had a fun weekend in November with the girls. Because Bonnie's mom and Lucy's dad are UT alums, they got to participate in the homecoming parade on Friday in the "Little Vol Walk". They loved waving at all the students in front of the torchbearer. The next day we took the girls to the game, which was Bonnie's first UT game. What a great weekend!

 Bonnie and Lucy with Junior Smokey before the parade

 Bonnie and Lucy on their "Float" in the Homecoming Parade

 Bonnie at her first Vol Walk on Saturday

 Lucy had a Birds' Eye View of the Vol Walk, too!

 The girls with Bubby at the game

The girls tailgating

Fall 2012

 Bonnie loved being able to ride her trike around the neighborhood once we were settled.

 New school year, new ballet class. She is now in the Little Mermaid Class (note the green leotard), and by the looks of the picture she takes it quite seriously.

 Caught her first fish back in September!

 Favorite thing to do: play dress-up!

 First sleep-over: best friends snuggled up together-precious!

 Bonnie and Lucy with me before the Tennessee/Florida game

 Pretty girl helping to pick out the perfect mum!

Sweet cousins painting pumpkins at the Farmer's Market

End of Summer and Wiggles!

 Daddy and Bonnie at the Wiggles Concert at the Ryman. She is singing "Rockabye Bear"

 At Sweet Baby Hayes' first birthday party, Hayes was not really a fan of his cake. Luckily for him, he had several friends willing to help him out.

 Sam and Bonnie at the Wiggles

 We finally moved into our new house! Here's Bonnie on the deck:)

 Enjoying some pizza after church

Brandon bought Bonnie and Sam some sparklers. They were so excited!

Clearwater

 Daddy and Bonnie on the beach

 Bathing beauty

 This girl LOVES the ocean and the pool!

 Low tide splashing and fun!

 Ready for the pool:)

 Touching the baby alligator at the Aquarium

 Our hermit crab

 She made a new friend who loves to swim as much as Bonnie!

We got to have dinner with my fabulous cousins Jenny and Julie:)

More Summer Fun!

 Daddy shot par on the floating green in Couer D'Alene!

 Daddy and I were fortunate enough to take another trip to beautiful Washington State. Here we are in wine country.

 Space Needle!

 We went to Dollywood, and Pappaw rode most of the rides with Bonnie since Mommy was feeling a little queasy due to being in my first trimester!

 These two girls are a little spoiled by their grandparents!

We were so lucky to be invited to Aunt Erin's wedding cake tasting! 

Summer 2012

 So, one of the things we love most about our new house is our neighborhood. We got to come over and go to a summer cookout on Memorial Day weekend to meet some of our neighbors. Here's a shot of the kiddos-Bonnie is barely visible in the middle! 

 Bonnie and Aidan at the zoo!

 Best friends just a-swingin' at Addy's birthday party.

 We spent a lot of time coming over to the house and taking pictures like these-progress! So exciting!

 I love this sweet picture of our girl on the way to the park one day. She was blowing dandelion puffs into the air!

 Friends at the pool during rest time...we did this a lot, too!

 Back to the Simmons after pool time to make pizzas! Who's excited?!?

Pappaw and Granny bought the girls this really awesome pool/slide/backyard waterpark...they loved it!