Check out the Pitcher Family - we got bored today, so we all dressed up in elf costumes and did a little dance. Aubrey was the best by far.

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1269411144

Home Sweet Home, Tennessee

I got to spend 2 weeks over Thanksgiving with my family in Tennessee and it was great. Us girls had lots of fun, especially getting up at 3 am to get to Kohls 4 am after thanksgiving sale. I waited in line for 2 hours to buy our stuff while my older sister Melissa ran around and gathered merchandise for me since I was holding our spot in line. My younger sister Lindsey drove the car around since there wasn't a single parking spot for miles. Seriously, there were probably over 1000 people there. I kept shaking my head at these crazy people. Who gets up at 3 am for some 30% off sale? Oh yeah, me!
My neice Shannon is a hoot! She loves Aubrey but doesn't like her so much when Aubrey cries. My sister is tirelessly working on pottytraining, but Shannon likes to go into her closet at night and poop and then fall asleep, which is what happened in the picture above.

My brother Daniel and I

My parents with Aubrey. They were very patient and helpful with her, even though she probably caused some hearing impairment, or increased it at least in my dad's case.

My dad took Melissa, Aubrey, and I to the Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It was built by the Vanderbilt family and is the largest home in America at 175,000 square feet. Thanks Dad for taking us and for carrying a screaming Aubrey through most of it. I enjoyed drifting babyfree along with the crowd, making comments to the other tourists like, "that guy seriously needs to control his baby". After touring it, I realized that our 1500 sq ft house just ain't cutting it for me. As majestic as the Biltmore was, it had nothing on the McDonalds in Asheville, which according to food network, is the fanciest one in the world. I took a quick picture inside, see below, it had marble floors, chandeliers, a stone fireplace! You could almost imagine you were in a fancy restaurant, until you bit into your reheated millimeter thick ground cowparts burger.

We took Aubrey to the aquarium. As you can see, She is taller then a Little Blue but not quite as tall as a Gentoo. I also got to visit with some girls that I grew up with. We all have kids now, crazy! Or in Tina's case, her third on the way.

So check out this video. This is a true Aubrey fit. The poor girl just gets overtired. Listen for Shannon singing, she cracked me up by singing about how cute Aubrey was.

Thanks family for hosting us for the 2 weeks! I really enjoyed spending time with each of you and hope to come visit soon!

What I did this morning instead of cleaning...

First Attempt with photoshop!

So here is my first attempt using photoshop for digital scrapbooking. I know you'd be more impressed if I'd actually created this by hand, but this way is soo much cheaper and I never could have come up with that flower on my own.