We Need Your Help!!!

Cody and I have been married 11 wonderful years. As I am sure most of you know we would love to have children. Unfortunately Cody and I have taken quite a few steps to start our family and have been unsucessful. We have decided that adoption would be a wonderful opportunity for us and are very excited about making this choice. We have recently become certified to adopt and are now just waiting to be picked by someone. If you are willing we would love it if you would help us to find our baby!!! We appreciate all the prayers, love, and support that we have received from everyone and know that we couldn't have made it through this without you.

Thanksgiving

Cari and Garrett as usual were nice and hosted Thanksgiving at their house. Garrett is a pro at frying turkeys!! Cody and I brought the mashed potatoes, cranberries, and pumpkin pies. Everything was great, the turkey, noodles, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rolls, green beans, and so on!! We decided to eat in the early afternoon so that we could let our food settle and then eat more later. Most of our nieces and nephews love Cody and usually just run by me on their way to Cody. It was nice that Ashlyn actually let me hold her a little bit and laid in my lap. Although she was told that if she sat with me for a little bit then Cody would hold her later!!! One of these days they will swing over to my side, just not sure when that will be!

Ashlyn and I digesting our turkey

Cody and Shayne

Cari, me, Bailey, and Aub playing games

Cody picking the meat off the turkey

The whole Thanksgiving crew

We had a very nice Thanksgiving and ate lots of yummy food. It is always fun to be able to just hang out, eat, and play games!! After eating Cari and Aubrey scoped out the ads for Black Friday. Once they decided what they wanted at the stores we went and scoped out Walmart so that Cari and Aubrey could get a plan for their early morning shopping. It is hard to say what is worse getting up at 2:30 am to go shopping at Walmart the day after Thanksgiving or having to work. Since I had to work and I did see an item in the ads that I wanted, Cari and Aubrey were nice enough to add that to their shopping list. They were very successful with their shopping and I was grateful that they took care of one of the items I needed! Thanks again Cari and Aub!! We had a great Thanksgiving and are so very thankful for the wonderful families that we have. As always thanks Cari and Garrett for letting us all invade your house!!!

I am so thankful for the wonderful life that Cody and I have together!!

Halloween

I have finally gotten some time with the computer. Ever since Cody started his class I have had to fight to get time with our computer. These are late but hey better late than never. So on Halloween we got to go to my nephew Bailey's football game in the morning. He did really good! Then we headed to the park by our church and had a little party for all of the Mullenaux October birthdays. It seems like almost all the birthdays are in October so Cody had the idea of celebrating them all at once. We had pizza, cupcakes, ran around/played, and then carved pumpkins. I didn't get very many pictures and there were lots of great pumpkins but these were the only pictures I took.

Carter and Issac with their pumpkins

Cody and I with our pumpkin

After we were done at the park we came home and wanted to crash. After a very short, maybe 10 minute nap the trick or treaters started coming. We sat out on our driveway and passed out candy the rest of the night. Someone in our neighborhood did a haunted house and it was actually very good. I went through it with a friend and her baby so they toned it back a little but it was good.