Thanksgiving 2012 - Eden is Four Years Old

This Thanksgiving Eden was four years old!  We celebrated with our family as we also do.  We prepared a fried turkey and a roasted turkey.  I have to admit the fried turkey is really good!  It is very juicy and moist as one might expect.  We had all the usual southern foods, dressing, collards, sweet potatoe casserole, green bean casserole, cream potatoes and gravy.  We had pecan and chocolate chess pie.  We all seat around and ate most of the day! 

This year Eden had a "feast" at The Raleigh School.  The children send home invitatons that they made.  We all brought a dish to share in the classroom.  Eden and all of her classmates took turns sharing their artwork about "What I Am Thankful For".  Eden was thankful for her kitty's.  It was so sweet to hear the children say what they were thankful for.  We are thankful this Thanksgiving that we have a sweet beautiful little girl who is fortunate to attend one of the best schools in Raleigh.  Her teachers are wonderful and are teaching her well.  We are proud!  We are also thankful for family! There is nothing more important! 

 

Eden getting ready to share her picture below at the Raleigh School Feast

 

Eden's hand print was the turkey

 



 My Uncle Kenneth, Aunt Cindy, Cousins Cady & Jamie and Uncle Johnny

 



Getting ready to eat Thanksgiving dinner



The fried turkey 

Halloween 2012 "The Pirate Family"

This year we were all pirates for Halloween!  My parents love Halloween as much as I do!  We got our pumpkins carved up and our house all decorated.  We even made a scarecrow this year!  We had a ton of trick or treater's!  Our neighbor Mrs. Turner passed out candy at our house while we went out to fill up our bag with candy.  To tell you the truth I couldn't wait to get home to sort all of my candy!  My parents showed me how to do this.  They both sorted their candy when they were little! I hope everyone had a great Halloween like I did!

P.S.  We even went and saw a "Dog Halloween Costume Parade" this year!  That was silly!

 

 

My First Symphony At Four! A Halloween One!

This year I attended my first symphony! The North Carolina Symphony played a children's Halloween show. I really liked it alot. I got to wear my Halloween costume and there were a lot of fun preshow events! The symphony played a lot of star wars song and I got to see Dark Vader!! He even conducted one of the songs. I think the best part of the show was getting to parade across the stage and getting my face painted after the show!  I love to get my face painted!

 

Little Miss Pirate!

 

Parading Across The Stage In My Costume!

 

 

 

 

I Got A Pirate To Go With My Pirate Custume!



The NC State Fair 2012

 

 

 

We can't believe it is fair time again! Going to the NC State Fair is one of our favorite things to do! Since the fair occurs every October it reminds us that Summer is over and Fall is beginning! So far the trend is not going just once but twice! This year Eden wanted to spent most of her time playing games to win prizes. Since she was pretty good at it, we once again came home with sveral goldfish! She named them Krispy, Creme, and Donut! We met Eden's best friend Mary Eliza and her family at the fair. Eden enjoyed riding rides with her friend. As usual we ate our way through the fair! Thank goodness it only occurs once a year!

 

Throwing darts at the balloons!

I am really getting good at this!

 

 

Our annual corn eating photo!

 

 

We just got our faces painted!! Love the clothes pin look!

 

So Sweet!  My Best Friend! Four Years Old!

 

 

Fried Everything!!



Disney Trip 2012

Daddy went to Orlando on a business trip early October. Mama and I joined him for a long weekend! We spent a couple of days in the Magic Kingdom and a day at Epcot. The best part of the trip was "Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party"! I got to trick-or-treat at Disney World this year! I have to say it was pretty cool! The candy was great and Magic Kingdom was all lit up in Halloween colors! The Halloween parade was very festive and a lot of fun! Wow! I must say I am one lucky little trick or treater this year!

 

 

Cinderella's Castle lit up for Halloween

 

 

 

Me and Dumbo!

 

Goofy!

 

With Tinkerbell!

 

Back At The Hotel After Trick or Treating!  Yum Yum!!

 

 

Farm Tour Day - Ray Farms

We spend a nice fall day on a September Saturday visiting the Ray Family Farm.  It was Farm Day and many farms through out the area welcomed visitors!  We choose to drive to Ray Family Farms.  It is in Louisburg North Carolina the town that my Grandmama grew up in!   My Grandmama grew up on a big farm and boy wouldn't she get a kick and out of us enjoying the farm life.   We saw pigs, chickens, cows and horses.  The family was so nice! They gave us homemade ice cream and we bought sausage, steaks, and fresh eggs!  I am a city girl but is so fun visiting farms in the country!

We plan on going back often to purchase fresh country local foods! 

Goodbye Jordon Center & Hello To The Raleigh School

This fall Eden transitioned from The Jordan Center, which was located across the street from our neighborhood, to The Raleigh School a few miles away.  It was a bittersweet transition as Eden said goodbye to her longtime friends and teachers!  We remember the first day we took Eden to the Jordan Center.  She was only 10 weeks old and Ms. Johnnie reassured us that she was in great hands!  We leave the Jordan center with  four years of wonderful memories and lots of friendships! We will never forget your classrooms there, the Pandas, Box Turtles, Honeybees and Toucans.  We will not forget Ms. Lolita and Mr. Bobby D calling you "little girl".  Eden you were so loved at the Jordan Center by your teachers and staff.  Your outgoing playful personality makes people fall in love with you!  When we told Mr. Bobby D that you were leaving, he said no, not my "little girl".  We will visit often! 

We were somewhat anxious as to how Eden would adapt to The Raleigh School.  She loved it!  It is a small sweet school located on a beautiful campus filled with trees! She had several play dates with her new classmates-to-be before school actually started and was able to meet her teachers at one of the play dates!  Eden seems so grown up now!  She hops out of the car at Carpool with her Raleigh School book bag and heads to her class! 

At The Raleigh School the parents are very involved and we get to be the Helping Parent in her classroom about once a month. Eden gets to be the Helping Child on those days and she gets super excited! Eden and her friends also attend Spanish class and have Music twice a week! Our sweet little girl is growing up so fast!

The Jordan Center 

Ten Weeks Old Starting The Jordan Center - Thank God For Ms. Johnnie!



The Goodbye Cake -  Thanking The Staff

Ms. Pat (The School Cook)

 



 

Ms. Rene' and Eli (One Of The Administrators). Eli is a classmate and is her grandson.

 



Ms. Wendy (My babyroom teacher along with Ms. Johnnie)

Ms. Johnson - The Honey Bees - Two Year Old Class

 



Mr. Bobby "D" - The Box Turtles - One Year Old Class

 



Ms. Crystal - The Toucans - Three Year Old Class

 



Ms. Lolita - The Honey Bees (One Of My Favorites! Can You Tell?)

 



Ms. Johnnie - My babyroom teacher and My second Mama!

 



My First Day - The Raleigh School 

The Raleigh School Preschool building 

My new teachers Ms. Petelle and Ms. Heames

 My first day in the classroom at The Raleigh School

 



 

My first day in the classroom at The Raleigh School (Playing With Daddy)