Thanksgiving

It was wonderful to have both of our parents and Josh's grandparents join us for Thanksgiving this year in Atlanta. With a one month old we were very happy to have family come to us again this year. Thankfully, we are in our rental house and had room for the company!
Some pictures to remember the week! (I had the camera in some strange setting so the pictures don't look right).

Josh's parents came up for the whole week and his mom and grandma put together a wonderful Thanksgiving meal. His grandparents joined us on Tuesday and my parents were able to get here Wednesday and stayed through Sunday after Thanksgiving.

Grammy with a smiling Brad



Brad in his handsome sweater hand made for him by my Aunt Lynn



A comparison of Brad and Luke wearing the same Thanksgiving outfit

Brad, Thanksgiving 2010



Luke, Thanksgiving 2007



The table set-up for Thanksgiving. I didn't get a shot with all the food, but at least I have proof that my fine china does occasionally get used!



Josh's Dad turned 60 on Thanksgiving day so there was a birthday cake and celebration of course!



Haven't seen Noah on the blog in a while, here is what he was up to on Thanksgiving day...not much different than usual!



Luke, sporting his black eye, with his Nana. He got the black eye after running around in the basement and tripped and fell into the coffee table hitting his cheek. He had a red spot on his cheek for a day or two and then a black eye appeared. I had to delay our Christmas card photo until it healed up a little bit :)



Great grandpa and great grandma with Brad



cutie pie Brad



I just love Luke's face in this picture



Gator game time, dad with his boys!

Brad at 1 month old

I tried to take a 1 month old picture of Brad, but I wasn't able to get a great shot. Here he is at 1 month old.





For comparison (to see the dominance of the Elliott genes), here is a picture of Josh at 1 month



and Luke at one month



yes, Brad looks more like Josh than Luke, if that is possible :)

Thanksgiving Program

Luke's preschool had a Thanksgiving program the friday before Thanksgiving. The place was packed full of parents and grandparents! Since I had Brad with me I didn't want to sit too close in case I had to step out with him, this also meant that I didn't get very clear video of the performance but you can pick Luke out. If you have trouble finding him, he is the one that keeps lifting up his shirt!

Playground

In mid-November, Ben, one of Luke's friends from school had a birthday party at Stone Mountain's playground. We have been to Stone Mountain a couple of times since moving here, but we never knew there was a (free once inside) playground. This playground was great and really big. It was one of our first family outings with Brad, who was 3 weeks old. I wasn't sure if I'd be up to going, but the weather was great that day and I needed to get out of the house so we all went.

First, a little game of where's Luke...







Brad chillin in the car seat



Ben's grandma (touching Luke in this picture) kindly offered to hold Brad so I could eat lunch :)



This is the preschool crew, Luke, Oliver, and Alec (Ben is across the table in the picture above). These 4 boys were in the same class last year and although Alec has moved up a class these 4 still remain good friends and we have really enjoyed getting to know their parents. We are really pleased with Luke's school.



Me and Brad, man was I looking tired!



Once it warms up again here we'll have to take Luke back to this playground, he loved it!

Brad meets Natalie

My friend Vim came by with her two little girls to visit me and Brad in early November. I tried to get a picture of the two little ones, Natalie is 7 months old here. Maybe the next time they play it'll be happier :)

Brad- 2 weeks old

Some photos of Brad from when he was 2 weeks old :) I can't believe he is already 12 weeks old now!

Grammy with her boys. Between my parents and Josh's parents, we were blessed to have
help for nearly 3 weeks!



Brad (quiet!) in the chair, you can see his goopy eyes in this shot. He has blocked tear ducts, go figure...son of an ophthalmologist. Josh says 85% of cases clear on their own with growth, but if his don't improve we'll have to have them probed by one of Josh's partners in the future.



Showing off his little brother shirt (which is now too small for him)

Halloween

Luke was so excited to be a fireman for Halloween. We found this cheap costume at Target because I was sure he was going to change his mind before Halloween actually arrived (see I was way early buying his costume since I knew we'd be having a newborn that might hinder these kinds of things if I waited). Not only did he wear it for Halloween, but he got to wear it twice to school for trick or treating and once to a friend's birthday party that was at a fire station.



Josh and Luke's papa took him out trick or treating. I walked to our neighbor's house across the cul-de-sac so I could at least see him do one trick or treat. Luke did great this year, he walked right up to the doors and knew what to do and was so pleased to get candy!

A couple of pictures with Luke and his pumpkin. Grammy helped him paint it since we never got around to carving it this year. Josh had grand plans to carve an eyeball but it never happened.







And I just had to put these two shots of Brad in his little Halloween outfit!