There's No Place Like Roam

Graham Fisher joined the McKinney family on October 24th at 5:56 PM. He weiged 9lbs, 9oz and was 21 inches long. He is a healthy boy and is sleeping well so far. Mom is recovering nicely thanks to two helpful big-boys and a wonderful husband who is handling EVERYTHING around the house.

So, Saturday afternoon Carter decided he was running for President. This idea came from the book he recently purchased at the school book fair "Spongebob for President". He decided to make flyers saying "Carter for Prezident" and put them all around the house. I went upstairs to fold the laundry and came back downstairs to find his flyer creation station empty. I went outside and saw flyers all around the porch, but no sign of Carter. I called his name inside the house, I called his name outside the house and then I caught a glimpse of him halfway down the driveway. I thought he was heading down the driveway, but he was actually coming back up. I said "What on earth are you doing?" and he said I went to Mr. James' house to ask him to vote for me and he gave me a check. I almost passed out! I thought he had conned our neighbor into giving him a campaing donation. After he made it back to the top of the hill he showed me his notebook where he had writte...

I've really hoped to create some long-lasting traditions in our family. We first took Carter to Old Baker Farm in 2003, when he was just 10 months old. We have made the journey to Harpersville, AL every year since. We have always gone with different people, but this year we made the journey as a family of 4 and 1/2. We can't wait to take Graham next year and continue the tradition. Hunter and his "Buddy" 2008 Carter has his own tradition of picking a white pumpkin' (2008) Carter 2007 Hunter and Mommy 2007 Hunter pumpkin' pickin' in 2006 Carter in the corn maze (2006) The McKinneys in 2005 Carter in 2004 Hunter's first trip in 2004 (4 weeks old) Carter's first trip in 2003 (10 months old)

Jason and I attended Putting on the Ritz this past weekend. This is the annual fundraiser for the West Anniston Foundation . My heels stayed on the entire time and I didn't bust my tail, so all was good. Today officially ended my Board of Directors' duties/meetings/events for all of my extra-curricular work for October and November. Thank goodness for maternity leave What a relief! :-) I still have two more weeks of work, assuming Mr. Graham doesn't decide to come early.....

We can't believe it! It's almost time for Graham to arrive! 33 days to go and so much to get done before he gets here. I started having contractions this week, so we went out and bought the final essentials we needed and I'm washing everything in Dreft this weekend. I can't believe how fast this pregnancy has gone by, but I can't wait for Graham to get here! Keep checking for updates! We will post all the news and baby pictures on our blog!

Hunter had his 4th birthday party yesterday and we all had a blast. The kids had fun with the treasure hunt and no one was injured while they took turns attacking the pinata. Be sure to check out the video of Hunter while we sang Happy Birthday. He is still a little mad at us about singing to him. :-)

Ms. Sherry takes Hunter to "Library Day" every Tuesday. The kids listen to stories, play games, sing songs and do a craft. Recently, they had a library version of "The Olympics" which Hunter enjoyed. He received a gold medal and got into a brawl with his brother when Carter mentioned to him that it wasn't a "REAL" gold medal. The picture below was in The Anniston Star this past weekend.