3 Years of Tabitha Pictures

Happy Birthday Tabitha!

Oh my, my baby is 3! How time flies when you are having fun. I remember this day so vividly three years ago. It was two days after I begged my doctor to induce me. Finally he agreed and by the next morning, Tabitha was here. I remember Brian was out of the room at the snack machine when they told me to push. My parents were at home with Ethan eating waffles when they should have been at the hospital. I was supposed to be getting drugs at 7am to start labor, nope didn't need that. I thought I was having a 9 lb. baby, wrong again. Finally after 4 minutes and a doctor that almost didn't make it into the room we had our little baby girl. Of course she was a surprise to everyone except us since we had kept her gender and name a secret for the entire pregancy. That was a lot of fun by the way!

Now after three whole years we have learned a lot about little Miss Tabitha. She is a feisty red head who is fascinated by babies and accessories. She knows exactly which buttons to push to make her brother go crazy and would love to hug and squeeze cats and dogs all day long. Pony rides are a new found favorite and riding her scooter is her new talent. She loves ballet and gymnastics and I am sure one day Tabitha will be bungee jumping off of something. Oh and don't feed her applesauce, yogurt, or liquid medicine, she will throw up!

Please enjoy the slide show above of the first three years of Tabitha's life.

Halloween Weekend Pictures

Halloween Weekend

Halloween weekend was very busy. Granny and Grandad were visiting and we had lots of things that needed to be done. On Friday we went trick-or-treating in downtown Blacksburg, ate dinner and then headed right over to the Hokie Harvest Sale (the on-campus horse and cow auction). Trick-or-treating in downtown was a fun experience. There were lots and lots of kids everywhere. We got candy from all the stores, bars and resturants (even Daddy's favorite - Boudreaux's). Tyrod Taylor was handing out candy at the barber shop and there was even a man at the photography shop handing our gourds! Hmmm, weird. Why is it that Halloween always brings out the weirdos? The funniest moment was when we walked up to Hokie Hair (a haircutting place). Tabitha saw the people inside getting their hair cut and handed her candy over and was ready to walk in and get a hair cut. In the middle of trick-or-treating! We also saw quite few dogs dressed in their costumes as well!

On Saturday we woke up bright and early for the Virginia Tech Surplus Auction. That was a fascinating experience but a very long day. Brian and Grandad were able to get some really nice VT coats for pretty cheap! Needless to say I think there are a few more auctions in our future.

Oak Lane Trick-or-Treat Pictures

Oak Lane Trick-or-Treat

So, we had a very exciting Halloween weekend. It started on Tuesday with the Oak Lane Trick-or-Treat. For anyone not familiar with Tech, Oak Lane is where the Greek community is housed. Every Halloween they invite the local elementary schools to go trick-or-treating at their houses. Our check in house was Alpha Phi where we were greeted by two very enthusiastic girls. Let me just say, this night had to have been the coldest, windiest day we have experienced here in Blacksburg. Add on top of that the fact that Oak Lane seems to be on top of a hill, making the wind even worse.

Our two new friends led us straight to the free cotton candy and then took us house to house. Most of the houses were handing out candy but a few had other activities. The kids had their faces painted in one house and in one of the fraternity houses they had a chance to play some games. These were the games: Pin the face parts on the monster while a strobe light is flashing and throw ping pong balls into tiny buckets filled with water. Hmmm, were we trick-or-treating or at a college party? They tried so hard but it was quite humorous.

At the end of the night our last stop was the haunted house! There were two haunted houses. One for big kids and one appropriate for the littler ones. Our girls brought us to the lesser of the two evils. Well, lets just remember these are college students we are dealing with and their version of tame isn't exactly tame. After the ski mask people and the room with the bloody guy and the threat to murder 10 children by the end of the night. When left through the back door and were promptly greeted by the freaky guy yielding a chainsaw and jumping straight at us. The only thing that came of this wonderful experience was one sleepless night for Ethan and the knowledge that there will probably be no more visits to haunted houses!