Jordan's First Thanksgiving

The day began with Andy surviving his first half marathon through downtown Atlanta (starting and finishing at Turner Field). Nez and Bob were at the finish line to see him cross and take pictures, but somehow missed him. We're still not sure how that happened.

Later in the day we celebrated Jordan's first Thanksgiving with our new extended family.

Ross' family invited us up to their house in Kennesaw for Thanksgiving dinner.

It was a wonderful Thanksgiving with great food, company, and some football on TV. Jordan had a blast crawling around and playing with everyone...

mainly Uncle Ross!

Burt's Farm (Pumpkin Patch)

We'd been meaning to take Jordan to a pumpkin patch before Halloween, but it snuck up on us, and we missed that deadline. So we made the drive up to Dawsonville to a place highly recommended by Gio called Burt's Farm.

Jordan played amongst the huge pumpkins for a while and we were able to take some great pics.

Another reason for our trip was to try our first hayride. It was a lot of fun, although Jordan may have thought it was a little long.

This is definitely something we'll be making a tradition in years to come (although before Halloween if we can get our act together).

Jordan's 1st Halloween

When we began looking for Halloween costumes for Jordan's first Halloween, we weren't sure what to dress him up as. That is until we saw the Little Monkey suit. Absolutely perfect! It even had a padded belly to go over his padded belly.

We don't know if Jordan really knew what to make of this whole idea, but mommy and daddy had a blast trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. We began by walking over to the neighborhood pool. They had pizza and drinks and did a little parade around the pool for the kids.

Then we hit some select houses throughout the neighborhood. Running short of daylight (and warmth), we tried to strategically plan our route of 5 houses. We hit Josh and Loren, followed by Lindy and Ross

since they live about 5 houses from each other. Then came Russ and Brittany, followed by Adam and Julie, and Sarah and Robert. By this time, it was dark, we were freezing, and the monkey was exhausted (so were the monkey's parents who didn't have the luxury of riding in style and being pushed).

All in all it was a great Halloween and we couldn't have picked a more perfect costume. Unfortunately, we've set the bar high in the costume department for future years.