Happy Fall Y'all!

I made this outfit for Avie to wear throughout the month. All I did was buy a top and leggings from Wal-Mart, sew orange tulle onto the shirt and applique it! I must say...she looked adorable in it.

...love this pose she's got goin' on...

I had to include pics of my table. I love decorating for Fall. I have almost as many Fall decorations as I do Christmas. The good thing about it...I start decorating for Fall in September and it lasts til the end of November!

Chad's 30th!

My sweet husband turned the big 3-0 in September! He got TWO parties! On his actual birthday, I got the whole family together (both sides) and we went to eat at Longhorn Steakhouse. He loves that place. We had a great time!

Avie didn't want to be in the picture, so Ariel got to be in it instead.

I got Chad tickets to the Saints/Seahawks game!

mmm...icing!

The next night was his surprise party for all his buddies...and mine! My friends love Chad and so both mine and his friends were there. I reserved the deck at The Warehouse. He had no idea. I even had invitations printed! I thought he would kill me...but he ended up loving it.

Here are some of my friends...Jessie, Jennifer & Joshua, and Sam

...and here is the other side...Sam & Valerie and Janie & Jeff

Pat & Jessica (Chad's sis and her new husband) and Zach & Emily

Tiffany & Chad and Allison & Jason

Cathy and Bobby (having a baby girl VERY soon!)

me and the birthday boy! and Sam. haha

Me and my girls! (you would've thought it was my birthday party...but seriously, my friends live an hour or more away and I don't get together with them as often as I'd like...so when we're together, we take lots of pics!)

Chad's birthday cake

Myrtle Beach 2010

I haven't posted in a VERY long time...surprise, surprise! I'm just gonna pick out the big things that have been going on so I can get caught up!

We went to Myrtle Beach for an ENTIRE WEEK back in July. It was awesome...our first vacation as a family. Avie was old enough to travel a long distance and enjoy the beach. It was 14 hours there and back and she didn't whine, fuss, or cry ONCE. It was unbelieveable! She'd just had her 2nd birthday so she got lots of fun DVDs and watched them as we traveled.

here is my little darling on the beach...

...and staring out the window at Planet Hollywood...

Our last day there, we took her to the aquarium. It was so neat! She is sliding out of a fish's mouth...

 Daddy is holing some kind of crab.

Ugh...this gives me the willies.

Time for a juice break!

My aunt came the night before we left and we all went to PF Changs for my birthday! The next morning on our way out we stopped at the beach and she took some pics of us.

On the way home (my 29th birthday!) we stopped in Birmingham at my cousin April's. She has 4-year-old twins, Cooper and Carlie. Avie had a BLAST playing with them! April's children are SO sweet and well-mannered. They got me this delicious birthday cake too!

And they each got on a bouncy ball and went to TOWN! Needless to say, I had to get Avie one of these when we got home.

Jennifer and Joshua's Couples Shower

The last of the Fab Five got married a few weeks ago, but a few weeks before that we threw them a fun couples shower on the patio at Portico in Ruston. It was so much fun! Good friends and good food...anything better??

The happy couple!

Elaine, Jennifer, me, and Kelly

Me and my sweet husband.

Lindsey, Jennifer, Valerie, and me (4/5 of the Fab Five!)

Haven't posted in fo-eva! This one's about Drew!

You ladies that follow my blog...you already know how terrible I am at keeping up with it, so I guess an explanation isn't necessary. (I really will try to be better about it this summer...but, same out-in-the-country slow Internet signal...just sayin')

I have ALOT to blog about! Since my last blog, I have gotten a new nephew, Avie got her first haircut, I've been crafting like crazy, our vegetable garden has flourished, and the last of the Fab Five got hitched!

Here are some pics of sweet Andrew Hunter Johnston (Drew), born May 3. He was 7 lb and a very beautiful baby boy! This is my twin brother's last child...and only boy! Thank goodness for this sweet boy...they already have 2 girls!

My twin brother with his new little boy!

...taking him to the nursery...

big sisters looking in at their baby brother

Mama with her little man

I've never seen Molly smile like this. She was soooo PROUD!

Me holding Drew for the first time. Yes, I wore a hospital gown...I'd been at work all day and was sure there were kid germs all over me. I'm weird about germs around newborns. I changed shirts for MONTHS after coming home from work, before holding Avie when she was itty bitty.

A clean-shaven Chad holding his little nephew...

My first niece and first nephew...

Ninee holding Drew...she's a teacher too (hence the hospital gown)

Drew has been such a joy. He is so good! He's growing so fast. More pics to come later!