Halloween

The night before Halloween baby Charlie and his parents made a visit to Jackson so that everyone could see him in his cute little mouse costume!  Edie and Reese Ann shared their witchy ways with each other- although I can firmly say RA was a cuter witch!

The weather on Halloween was absolutely awful this year.  It rained and rained, and there was lots of talk about postponing trick-or-treating until the next night.  Thankfully, the rain stopped and we were able to trick-or-treat on the 31st since Nov 1st is a busy birthday in our house!  Our gated neighborhood was the perfect calm place to be and we loved having tons of new neighbors this year who shared candy with this crew!

Cade and the Davenport kids came over to trick-or-treat with us!

We actually got a family picture where we are all smiling!

Cooper was dressed up as Wolverine, but when Cade showed up in his UT gear, he had to show his Auburn spirit!

Our Fall Family Getaway

We made a quick, whirlwind trip to the beach to hang out with Dan's college friends and their families, and on the way back home, we stopped in Auburn to take in a football game!  It has been a fun football season with Auburn's fantastic turnaround, and Cooper has become obsessed with all things football!  He loved Auburn (his first trip there for a football game in several years) and so did Reese Ann!

Lots of fun was had on the beach with friends!

The kids decked out in their Auburn garb!

Love this sweet picture- melts this mama's heart!

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With Cam's statue- we all thought it was pretty cool!

Reese Ann may have thought the majorette's were a little cooler, though!

Loved hanging out in downtown Auburn

Game-time fun!  War Eagle!

Baby Charlie

After months of anticipation, Charles Edwards Carruth was born on October 18th.  The kids and I were there for the birth of my first nephew and their first cousin- Natalie had a scheduled c-section which helped in the planning!  Dan came to Memphis later in the day to meet him, too!  He is so sweet and cute, and we are so glad that he is here!

Waiting for the news!

Meeting Charlie for the 1st time!

A super-proud cousin!  She adores Charlie now that the shock of him being a boy has worn off!

I love being an aunt!

Some fall fun...

Cooper's grade all took a trip to the zoo in October.  We went with Lindsey and George, and the boys had a great time! 

My favorite picture is of the boys holding hands- not going to get many more like this one!

Dan's birthday was October 12th, and he wanted us to all go do a bike ride that was going on in Jackson on the morning of his birthday.  We put Reese Ann in a borrowed seat, and Dan, Cooper and I rode over 10 miles!  We were so proud of Cooper and his riding skills and endurance!  I see many more bike rides in this family's future!

Reese Ann is 4!

Our sweet little Reese Ann turned four on September the 4th!  A couple of days later we had a princess birthday party for some friends at our house!  We had tons of girly fun celebrating her!

Celebrating at school

Reese Ann, some friends, and her brother who didn't want to miss out!

Our birthday princess celebrating that night at home with grandparents and us!

Opening presents

with her new ballet loot!

Party time!

Edie doing make up and nails for the little ones!

Singing!

St. Louis

The entire Edwards family took a late-summer trip to St. Louis to see a few baseball games and explore the city.  G-Chip agreed to go because the Cardinals were playing the Braves!

On the way- three kids on three iPads!  It kept them entertained!

Fun at the City Museam!

Dan and his little Cardinal fans!

Start of School

Cooper started the 1st grade in August (teacher is Mrs. Linda Grimm), and Reese Ann started Junior Kindergarten (teacher is Miss Holly Johnson).  They have had such a great and fun school year so far!

Miss Linda showing Cooper what to do

Cooper with two of his good buddies- Hudson & Sam

Reese Ann visiting her classroom

A few weeks later, all of the Jr-K kids had a circus parade around the school.  They had lots of fun, and Reese Ann was one cute clown, if I do say so myself!

Catching up... our summer

It is my Christmas break project to get the blog back on track!  So since I left off with our Derby trip in May, I have many months and lots of life to catch up on!  Our summer was wonderful!  We started it with Cooper's Kindergarten bridging.

 

 

Cooper and his precious teacher, Miss Jennifer Sammons

The day after school was out, we headed to the beach with Mom, Dad, and the rest of the family!  We had a wonderful time even though I did not capture any pictures of all of us together.  We did get a couple of cute shots...

Coop and RA

Our friends, the Sirokys, were at the beach at the same time, and the boys got to go fishing together.  Here is the cutest shot of the day!

We had lots of fun around the house and at the river during the rest of the summer! 

Father's Day fun with Dan!

at the pool- Cooper swam like a fish this summer!

loving driving the boat!

He got brave and tried out the sled from my childhood!

Sweet friends hanging out at the river

Our 1st water balloon fight

Princess RA in her princess pool!