Fall Leaves Photo Shoot

Ag Day at UT

Chris let Morgan pet a tarantula and I was completely grossed out!!

Morgan never met a "puppy" she didn't love!!

Sam dazzling us with his ag knowledge at the 4-H booth.

Some kids will do ANYTHING for a piece of candy!!

Chris's brother, Scott, graduated from the UT College of Agriculture, and every year, he & his family come back to UT for Ag Day, the day of all days to honor all that is agriculture!! This year, we all met up with Scott and his son, Sam, on campus for the festivities. Bailey & Sam had a complete blast collecting all the freebies (and there were LOTS!!) while Morgan enjoyed riding in the backpack and petting a tarantula. Chris & Scott had a little bit of talking time and I basked in the wonderfully sunny & cool fall day surrounded by everyone dressed in orange. It was a great day!

Trick or Treat!!

Little Red Riding Hood & Preteen Vampire!!

Morgan quickly got the hang of knocking
 on doors for candy!

Bailey & friends, "Katniss" and "Pocahontas!"

My sweet baby!

I {heart} the pumpkin patch!!

It took Miss Morgan a little while to
warm up to the pumpkin patch concept!

Cruze Farm is a beautiful dairy farm in East Knoxville that
makes the BEST salty caramel ice cream!!

More pics of THAT CUTE DRESS!!

This skinny cow gives skim milk! lol

"Watering" the cow!

That hat stayed on half as long as it takes to read this caption!

I laugh out loud every time I look at this pic.

Pumpkin ice cream is YUMMY!!

She perked up quite a bit once the sugar kicked in!

Goofy girl!

Morgan's Birthday Celebration

Bear tunnel at the zoo!

Wee Play Zoo

Sweetest big sister ever!

Hangin' with the big kids, who are complete strangers!

Morgan's first camel ride!!

Love that bow! It stayed in for 2 seconds!

Most delicious birthday cake ever!! Thanks, Rita's Bakery!!

Morgan had her own cake so I wouldn't have to share!

Presents ROCK!!

Look Who's 2!!!

As I write this post, I am amazed that two years have passed since our sweet "bonus blessing" was born!! Morgan was very unexpected when we found out we were "expecting" on January 25, 2010, one day before my 39th birthday!! The joke is that I had told Chris months before that if I wasn't pregnant by my next birthday (which I KNEW I wouldn't be!!), I wanted to have a procedure called endometrial ablation to tame my out-of-control periods. All of the blood drained out of Chris's face, because he still was holding out hope (& prayers, as I would find out later) that we would have another child, so I laughed it off as something we really didn't have to talk about right then . . . or ever, as we would soon find out! 

What an absolute joy our sweet Morgan has been!! She is one amazing kid! She is talking up a storm these days, repeating nearly everything we say (so we're very careful, now!). She know many of her colors and remembers everything she's ever known or heard about! Like Bailey, she diffuses tense situations by being hysterically funny. She has finally grown some hair and it is beautifully curly! She is 35 inches tall and weighs 28 lbs. 13 oz. (80th percentile). She eats well and  her new fave is smoothies, which she drinks nearly every morning. She is just now starting to show some interest in listening to books as opposed to running around the living room while we read to her! She goes to preschool one day a week and has done remarkably well.

Here are just a few pictures of her "birth day" two years ago! It's one of the best days of my life!