Fall Pictures

I took the kids to do some fun fall pictures last night. Of course, I was trying to get the perfect Christmas Card shot. =) I won't post the one I'm putting on the card, but here's some fun ones. I also did "school" pictures for them, since we haven't done that yet for the year.


One of my favorites... it almost made it to the Christmas card. =)


Sweet lovins


They loved this, they couldn't stop laughing! It was great.


Cute, Emy's smile is so totally fake. hahaha.


Emalyn


Ashton-Kindergarten


Brayden-2nd Grade

Belly Shots

Here's some amazing pictures of Tara's pregnant belly and some with Braxton. These were done the day before she was born. Hahaha! Of course, we didn't know that would be the case...

Vivian Kenley Brazell

Vivian Kenley Brazell was born on November 22nd, 2008 at 2:34pm. She weighed 7lbs 1oz and was 21 inches long. "Kenley" is from her daddy's name, Kenneth Lee. We went down to Greenville, SC on Thursday morning, hoping Tara would have Vivie while we were there over the weekend. We were so blessed to be there when she was born! We had to leave shortly afterwards, so I was only able to get pictures of her right after she had been born. Her temperature was low, so she had to spend a few hours in the nursery getting warmed up. That's where she was when we left South Carolina. Here's some pictures!


Emy and Braxton making funny faces in the waiting room...


Here she is!



Tony and Vivie

Opening her eyes...

Proud new brother and baby Vivie

Me and Vivie

Linda and Vivian

Tara and Vivian

She's finally here!

Getting all warmed up in the nursery

Happy Birthday, Vivian Kenley Brazell!

Ashton's 6th Birthday Party

His actual birthday is the 24th, but we had his party a little early because Tara is due to have baby Vivian any day now and we didn't want to wait until after Thanksgiving weekend. So, we had Ashton's birthday party last night at our house. We had so much fun and lots of kids came! It was a star wars theme, naturally, and we gave out glow sticks (to resemble light sabers) for all the kids to play with. It was a blast!


The birthday boy


Playing a game to learn all about Ashton ("Is he right or left handed or both? What's his favorite sport? What would he use to fight bad guys?")


The other table full of kids, playing the trivia game.


The cake that I made.


Happy Birthday to you, Ashton!

Make a wish!

He received lots of great Star Wars gifts and a few others that weren't Star Wars. Thanks to everyone who came! We had a ball!

After the zoo, Memaw Sarah took us to Chuck E Cheese. It was so crowded but still so much fun!


I'm turning 6!


Good job, Ashton!


He loved the musical Star Wars card she got him.

Memaw Sarah gave him 3 Star Wars guys and $20! Wooo hooo!

Thank you, Memaw Sarah!

Knoxville Zoo

Knoxville Zoo had a free day (YES, everything was FREE!) on Saturday, the 15th. My mom was here visiting for the weekend and we all went up there with the Lee's. It was cold and rainy but still lost of fun and did I mention, FREE? =) Here's some fun pictures from our time there.


Memaw Sarah and Emy under the umbrella.


It stopped raining on our way in and the sun popped out for a little bit. Here's all the kids on a big rock. Jacob, Ashton, Matilda, Brayden, Elliot and Emy.



All the kids on a turtle

Brayden riding an eagle. The man running this was hilarious and told Brayden to hold on to his hair because it was going to go so fast his hair was going to fly off. It was so hilarious, we were all cracking up.

Emy and Elliot looking at the goat's face.

Elliot and Emy being birdies in a bird nest.

A gorgeous lion

Us in a bamboo tunnel.

Ashton, my photographer

Ashton was playing around with my camera and took a couple cute pics of me and Tony. I think he did a great job!

Allegra Bulla

Tracy and Allegra came for a short visit yesterday and we had such a fun photo shoot! Allegra is 10 years old and is such an awesome fiddle player! Check out a few of my favorites...