Ollie's 1st Thanksgiving!

We have so very very much to be thankful for this year!!  Number one of course being Oliver.  I can't believe he celebrated his 1st Thanksgiving.  What a blessing it is to have such a wonderful and sweet boy in our lives.  We are so thankful for Ollie's Grammy who takes care of him during the day and all of the grandparents, great-grandparents, Auntie M's, friends and everyone else who loves our Ollie.  We are SO THANKFUL to have such wonderful people in our lives!!

As you know we headed to Dallas this year for Thanksgiving!!  WHO DAT!!  Jacob and I opted not to go to the game; we just couldn't miss one second of Oliver's 1st Thanksgiving.  We had so much fun spending time with all of the Doyle's.  He loved getting so much attention from everyone.  We brought so many of his toys and chairs for him and I don't think we ever used any of it.  Oliver was so good in the car ride there and back.  
We didn't leave Dallas until after the game ....DUH... so we didn't get home until 10:30pm and we were exhausted!  I don't think Oliver even woke up when we took him out of his car seat and into bed.

THE CROWS CAME TO VISIT!!!!

We were super excited to get to spend a few hours with our long lost friends on Friday.  The Crows came over around Noon and we went to have some lunch and then came back to the house to hang out before they went to see Mandy's family.  We put the "little" boys down for a nap and sent the "big" boys off for guy time.  Kelly came over and we chatted away.  It was so nice to see them again and we hope to make a trip to see them before Christmas!

We are truly blessed and had an amazing Thanksgiving!!

A New Look!

 Hooray for the new blog!!  Doesn't it look FABULOUS?!?!  Big thanks again to Lara at Designer Blogs for making our blog look amazing!

I can't believe that this week is Thanksgiving!  On Thursday we are headed to Dallas for the day for some Doyle family time and then back to Shreveport to see the Crows.  I can't wait to put Ollie in his Turkey outfit mostly because I actually think it might fit him!!  I can't believe he is almost SIX months!!  Where does the time go??

Since we are going to Dallas for Thanksgiving we decided to have an dinner with Tutu and Uncle D this past Saturday.  It was soo yummy.  We had crab legs, corn on the cob and salad...oh and a "little" wine!  We enjoyed getting to spend some quality time with two of our favorite people on the planet!  WE LOVE YALL!!

Tutu, Ollie and a crab leg

 Oliver is starting to want to play in the bathtub.  It is so adorable how he kicks and splashes while grinning from ear to ear until the camera comes out...

I promise he really loves bath time!! 

Oliver loves to clip coupons on Sunday

Have a Happy Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Veggie Tales

My sweet little Oliver is growing up so fast and is developing quite the personality.  The way he chuckles at everything I do just makes my heart melt.  He has been enjoying getting to know the zoo that lives in our house.  He absolutely loves Mr. Piddles and strangely enough Mr. Piddles lets Oliver do just about anything to him. As for Tiramisu well she makes sure to keep her distance.  Now every time I say to Oliver get that kit kat he starts grinning and looking around for Piddles.  Kingston of course wants to constantly lick Oliver to death and Boudreaux is kind of timid around him still.  It is so cute to see him interacting with the animals.  Oliver still has no interest in tummy time or crawling, and "they" say he is supposed to be rolling over by now...ha yeah right!  One day though...I hope!!

Oliver reinventing his Halloween costume!

So on to the BIG EVENT!!  Our little Oliver is eating food!!  Yep after everyone telling me that I was depriving him of the food I finally caved. One of the main reasons for waiting as long as I did was being nervous of any allergies since Jacob's family is one big allergy!!  So off to the store I went and picked out carrots for the first food.  That was what I craved while I was pregnant with him so I was curious to see if he would like them.  We got everything ready.  Jacob was armed with the video camera and digital camera and I with a spoonful of carrots.  We were ready to capture that cute funny little face!  Well we didn't get any funny faces.  He ate every bit of it with a big smile and mmm-ed for more.  I guess he was ready!!  After five days of carrots we graduated to green beans and again he scarfed them down with no funny faces.  We are on day three of green beans and thinking we might try squash next.  I hope he continues to be a good eater!

Yum Yum carrots!

I can't believe that the holidays are just around the corner.  I think life goes by faster after you have a baby.  We are trying to enjoy every minute of it!!  It is going to be so much fun getting to share the holidays with our sweet little boy!

The Dreaded Master Bedroom

I know this is mainly a blog all about Oliver, but I know some of you are curious about a little makeover in the Doyle house so I decided to share (don't worry I will post some pics of Ollie at the end).  I decided to start a new project or should I say a very very long overdue project!!  Why now???  Since day one of moving into this house we have worked on every room of the house except our bedroom. Our bedroom was the most hideous room in the house....truly awful.  It was the only room with white walls...a mixed group of blah furniture....not so cute bedding...etc... 

Well during our fabulous Halloween party Brittany was getting the tour of the house when we reached the end of the hallway to a closed door and Jacob and I quickly said oh that is our bedroom and bathroom....really ugly...you don't want to see it ...ok the end lets turn around!!!  Yes!! We dodged that one or so I thought until later that night when we were laying in bed staring at our room when I brought up our tour with Brittany.  I was so glad she didn't see our room and then Jacob said... SHE DID!!!.....WHAT?!?!? I was mortified!  He said that she was not feeling well due to so medicine she was taking and needed to go to the bathroom but someone was in the hall bathroom and so yes that meant that the only one left was the master bathroom (which by the way is condemned and we don't even use it!) through our awful room!!!

Okay Thats it!!! I knew something had to be done!!!  So this weekend we finally put PAINT on the walls!!!! Crazy I know...the Crows would be so proud!! Along with paint I bought new fancy bedding that I have had my eye on for a couple of weeks and even put up some curtains!!! Yes now some how our bedroom is the only room with curtains...hahaha!  There is still a lot to do but it is definitely a big improvement and now we don't have to shut our door when guests come over!! So a big THANK YOU to Brittany!!  I decided for now not to post any pictures since I got some of my ideas from some very creative bloggers and I haven't quite figured out how to give them credit for it yet.  I am still learning this whole blogging thing!

So now for a little update on Oliver!!  He is getting so big and is becoming quite the comedian.  He fake coughs when he wants to get your attention and then gives you the biggest grin when you look at him.  Not sure if we want him to continue fake coughing but sometimes we can't help by laugh.  He has started to talk all through church and play peek-a-boo with everyone behind us.  I try so hard not to laugh at him but it is hard to resist his sweet face!!  His six month pictures are coming up on December 4th and I cant wait!!! Christmas cards maybe a little late this year but they will be well worth the wait!

Here are some pics that hadn't got posted yet:

Oliver at his 1st Pumpkin Shine

WHO DAT

Ollie and Mommy

Oliver's Spooktacular 1st Boo Day!!

We have lived in our house for three years and never been here for Halloween.  Jacobs parents have always done Halloween at there house (the rock house on Ockley).  Lisa loves Halloween and has boxes and boxes and boxes of Halloween decorations.  So when they sold their house earlier this year we knew there would be no more spooky Halloween nights on Ockley.  When I decided to have a Halloween party for Oliver I never imagined how big it would be.  I printed 20 adorable picture invitations from the internet and of course I had to keep one for myself.  So I had only 19 invitations to mail out and I had to be selective.  I sent them to close family and friends and spread the word to a few others.  Now that we had a time and a place (our house) it was on to the spooky menu.  I made a cheese ball that looked like a pumpkin and some chicken monster claws.  Ollie's Grammy made mini mummy dogs, shrimp dip made out of a chest mold and some punch.  Tutu made spider web seven layer dip and Kelly made yummy sausage balls.   There was nothing creepy about the sausage balls; they were requested and just plain good!  Last but not least was desert and who better to make it than Laura the talented cake designer!! The pumpkin spiced filled cake was fabulous and a big hit.

Finding a Halloween costume for our little Oille was not very easy.  I found several cute costumes but all of them would have swallowed him up and I was not letting him be "the situation" for his first Halloween.  Yes that was Jacob's vote of course.  In come Tutu to the rescue and off to Hobby Lobby we went to find a cute pattern.  Thats right Oliver is so special he had a custom made one of kind costume.  Oliver was the cutest crab ever!!

Ollie getting fitted for his crab legs

Ollie the crab!!

Oliver and Kelly

I bought some Halloween decorations for the inside of the house and Jacob brought home all of his parents scary decorations for the outside.  After Jacob started trying to rearrange my house I let him be in charge of decorating the outside as long as he left the inside of the house to ME!!  

The outside

 (I forgot to take some pics in the daylight...so you cant see all of it but it turned out great!)

The Inside

Pictures from the party and some of our wonderful guests!!

 Barry, Gran Jan, Granny and Papaw

 Ollie with his grandpa and grandma 

 Oliver getting kisses from his great grandma

 Ollie with another grandma (my mom) and I

He is such a lucky boy!!

 Oliver, his Great Aunt Carli and I

Oliver with Gam and Pop and I

 Kyle and Elizabeth Rose

Ollie with one of his Great Grandmas

 My sweet sweet Oliver!!

Jason and Oliver

(Isn't he a natural?!)

 Mommy Daddy and Ollie

Meagan and Tiramisu relaxing after the party

(They have a hate hate relationship)

So many friends and family came to celebrate Oliver's first Halloween.  We are so blessed to have such wonderful and important people in our lives.  Jacob and I cannot thank everyone enough for all the help it took to make this party happen.  Oliver is so lucky to be surrounded by so much LOVE!! THANK YOU AND WE LOVE YOU ALL!!

And to the Crows we miss ya'll SO much and wished ya'll could have been there!!!! It is time to come back home!!!!