Apple Cup & Friends Thanksgiving

After two exciting overtime periods, the Cougs pulled off a win over the Huskies in the 2008 Apple Cup Game, ending their season with a horrible 2-10 record but at least they went out with a sweet victory over the Dawgs! This was Payton's first Apple Cup and he was the cutest Coug Fan!

We headed over the Katie and Derek's house at halftime to watch the end of the game with some good-old routy Coug Friends! It was so fun to celebrate the win with fellow Cougs (sorry to Kristi who was the only Dawg fan in the house)! After the game, everyone joined in on our Second Annual Friends Thanksgiving Dinner. Last year Trav and I hosted the night before Thanksgiving (way too much food in two days) and this year Katie and Derek opened their house to everyone the Saturday before the offical Turkey Day (much more time to digest). Everyone brought a dish so there was plenty of food including a turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, desserts and SO much more!! The food was a step up from the first year and I am sure each year we will get better and better. This is such a fun tradition that I hope continues for many more years to come. Thanks to Katie and Derek for hosting and to all the Friends that were able to attend. We missed the friends out of reach but we were thinking about you all!

Enjoy the pictures and here's to a Happy Thanksgiving for everyone! GO COUGS!! :)


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Look Back at One Month...

Here are some pictures of Payton during his first month! Hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

One Month Doctor's Apt

I took Payton to his one month Doctor's appointment yesterday. Yes he is already a month old!!! Payton is a very healthy boy! He now weighs 10 lbs 7 oz and is 21.5 inches long. The Doctor was very impressed by his ability to roll himself over from his tummy to his back and how he is holding his head up for short periods at a time. He is going to be a smart, strong boy (Mom's opinion)! ;)

Just wanted to let you know that he is growing and doing great!

Month in Review

We had so many things going on last month that I wasn't able to write about much, so I thought I would do a quick review of a few things we did in October. The majority of the month revolved around welcoming Payton into the world on October 2nd and adjusting to our new life of minimal sleep, new challenges, and the best additional to our family!! But along with welcoming Payton, we also celebrated Trav's 29th Birthday on October 8th, Leah's (Trav's sister) birthday on October 10th, and my Mom's birthday on October 15th. By the way, Happy belated birthday to all the Friends and Family with October Birthdays that we missed!

Trav's sister, Leah, graduated from FIT in New York this last May and left for France shortly after. She finally came home from France two days before Payton was born, which was so wonderful. After 10 longs months we were able to see her for the first time since she returned just an hour before Payton was born at the hospital. We are so excited she is finally home and hope that she will stay in town for a while; it is so fun having her around.

The weekend before Halloween, Trav and I took Payton to the pumpkin patch to get his first pumpkin. I carried Payton in the Baby Bjorn and Trav picked the best pumpkins for us. We got three big pumpkins and had great ideas for carving them; Travis carved one and the others never got touched. We didn't have enough time or energy before Halloween to carve all three and get them out in time for the trick-or-treaters. At least we tried though! :) We had lots of trick-or-treaters on Halloween and Payton got to wear his "BOO" hat to his first Halloween Party at the Sperry's House, but that was the extent of his costume. Next year we will have more energy to carve pumpkins, dress Payton up in the best costume, and stay over an hour at a Halloween party!

We are getting ready for the holidays and have lots planned for November and December so there will be plenty more to report soon. I hope you are all well!

Pictures

I have been promising more pictures, so here they are. We have been busy trying to keep little Payton happy and get some rest at the same time! He is so fun to have around, just a huge challenge! We love him so much! Hope you enjoy the pictures our friend Alicia Jerome took of Payton at 3 weeks old!

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