I also am a VERY big rule follower!!

So on Saturday nite like several of my blogging friends have already mentioned, we were given the challenge to get the word out through our blogs! So here I go!! I actually was more afraid of not listening to the other blog friends that told me to do this, than I am of Congressman Blackburn. Anyway, I am going to give a big shout out to my FATHER IN LAW, Monty Lankford. He is running for the United States Congress seat from the 4th district in Tennessee this November. He and Nonni, as we call her, are working their tails off to win this election and your support would help a ton. Sure there are many ways to volunteer, donate, or fundraise, but what really counts are the VOTES!!! So I am asking all of my 10ish blog readers to pass the word on to all that live in the 4th district. I feel like I need to point out who this involves.


His district is all the light green color, with the #4 on it. Yes it really covers 24 counties. So if you know ANYONE that lives in ANY of these counties please start working on them to vote Lankford for Congress. Word of mouth can go along way!
I am not going to go on about all that I think Pop, Mr Lankford, stands for, b/c I think he is great, so please go to his site, http://www.lankfordforcongress.com/. I think you should be able to find what you are looking for there! Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and I hope that each of you will get out and vote on Nov. 4th!!

Busy,busy,busy!

So the weekend is not even over yet and we have already done so many fun things!
Here is a fun foto recap of our Friday and Saturday around here....

Yes this is a picture of the Clarke's garage, please focus on the sink! That is where we had to bathe Colby before I could carry him in to the house on Friday nite. It was a serious "Blowout!"


Then later Cy and Sophie decided they were tried of playing in Sophie's "WAY" fun playroom and felt it was time to read!!


Here we are at the Luau for Poppi's campaign! Great event Joe and Court!


The Sunday School girls representing at the Luau! Thank you all for supporting our cause!


And finally, how did he convince the sweet babysitter to let all of his friends sleep with him tonight??? Hey he is asleep and I am good with that!

Can't wait to see what Sunday holds!!

Fave Foto Friday- 2 nights down, a lifetime more to go!!

So we only have the bed and sheets so far, but my big brother is lovin his new bed!!




Have a great weekend!

We love our grandparents!

Cy and Colby have two sets of super cool and super fun grandparents. They are always getting to do very special things with them. You just never no what kind of thing you will do next with these four. We love our Poppi, Nonni, Pep and Grandma!!


Riding cool boats out on the lake with Pepe and Grandma!


Lots of football fun with Grandma!


Going out on to the runway to meet Pop and Non when they were doing a tour around the state!


And pledging at the beach on vacation with Non!!

Thanks for all the memories!
love Cy and Colby

Fave Foto Friday first days of school

Here we were last year on the first day of school!

And here Cy is this year on the first day of school! Tears both years, but we are doing better!!

Yum!!

So I happened to be blog stalking last night and came upon some interesting news. A certain baker that can make a mean Caramel Cupcake has opened her own business. I headed straight downtown Franklin today and visited the new cupcake bakery "Ivey Cake." It was WONDERFUL!! I have had several of these yummy cupcakes in the past, but was so excited that now I can go two minutes from my house any day and get one! I also grabbed a yummy chocolate one for my mom! She raved about the cupcake and the cream cheese icing! So go check it out, and try several for me!! Way to go Ivey and best of luck!

Catch up!

Lots of stuff has been going on around here since last post. On Friday night we were ready to cheer on the Patriots against my Alma mater, Centennial. Page was supposedly considered the underdogs, but came out fired up and ended up winning the game. It was awesome and Cy had a blast! Here he is stopping for 2 minutes to eat a little snack since he is always too excited to eat at the tailgate before the game. Yuck, the popcorn was so stale that only a 2 year old would have touched it!!

Then on Saturday night, Nate and I left the boys with Grandma and Pep and headed downtown Nashville. It has actually been 10 years since I graduated high school and we were off to a bar downtown to have the reunion. As we were driving down I started to get a little nervous about how the evening would go, but I was VERY pleased. We had about 260 in our class and only 60ish showed up, but it was a fun 60 that were there. Not sure how many of those friends I will see again before the 20 year reunion, but it was fun to see them this time. Other than one person having 6 kids?!?, I actually had the most otherwise. So needless to say we were all still at different points in our lives. It was a fun night and Nate and I were proud to have stayed out until 10. What party animals we are!!

Colby had a fun first over the weekend. We took him out of the bucket and let him join us at the table for meals now! Yes he is sitting in a high chair enjoying some breakfast. The only problem with this is that he is really in to swiping things from the table. I have started to call him "Swiper" from Dora, b/c he is ALWAYS swiping something from his brother. It is fun to have him at the table and watch him try to cram Puffs in to his mouth.


And lastly, even though he is making some silly face in the picture here is Cy getting ready for the first day of preschool yesterday. I was not sure how it was going to go, considering we cried EVERY day last year. So I was really talking up how much fun our new teachers were going to be this year. Being the control mom that I am, I was super worried about one thing! Cy going to potty. I know that some of you will give me dirty looks when you read this, but yes Cy is a champ at going to potty. He has been wearing pullups/underwear really since June. But just this week have I let go and gone to underwear all day, everyday! So going to school has made me very nervous. I did not want him to have an accident and get upset. Well, he did GREAT and Mrs. R was on her game. No accidents and he even stayed dry though nap!! I am so proud of him and I am bragging on him, it is nothing Nate or I did!!!!
When he got in the car from school and I asked how it went his only answer was "I cried!" Which yes, did break my heart, but he did talk about painting his hand so I know he was fine. He even napped on his mat, something that did not happen once last year! So we will go again tomorrow and see how it goes! Maybe no crying this time, probably not, but I can hope!!