This pretty much sums it up!!!!!
How truly blessed we are and so very Thankful for all God has and continues to do for our family. This time last year we were in China getting our daughter, the past year has been a whirlwind and we have come so far. Hadley is happy and healthy, as are our other children. All of our children are wonderful blessings, both Brian and I agree that we wouldn't want our life any different than it is now (except maybe a little more organized).

I Love Thanksgiving so much, it's just a great time to celebrate with family and friends! We celebrated with Brian's family on Thursday, and we will gather at my mom's today (I will post pictures from that dinner as well). I've said it almost every year, this is a super busy, crazy time of year for most everyone but Brian and I really feel the heat with Birthday's coming, Christmas, football playoffs, family gatherings, dance and cheer competitions, and basketball. If we can just make it to January we usually can take a rest for a bit. The fact is one day these little ones will be gone.....

and then it will just be us here......

whatever will we do????? So I will cherish each crazy, super busy day until then. The truth of our children leaving is becoming a reality more and more each day with Hunter applying to colleges, ordering graduation stationary and other little things. I am not dealing with this very well, I have been waking up in the middle of the night restless, and diaphoretic from the thought that all my little ones will soon not be under the same roof. It's not that I don't want him to grow up and start his own life and family, and career. I just don't want him to leave the life he has now with us, (how very selfish right?). Our pediatrician has already told me that it's not healthy to be a child stalker, and I am learning to loosen my grip a little everyday through prayer and reassurance that we have raised him right so maybe he will stay on the right path once he leaves here. For now that is all I can do, Pray. If you are a young parent reading this I would love for you to take one thing away from this.... Pray for your children..... and start before you even have them. There is extreme power in praying for your kids!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you all!!!
Jennifer

October

Halloween has come and gone and now we are just 3 weeks from Thanksgiving, so hard to believe. This month was full of football, school activities, soccer, cheer leading, and family pumpkin parties.  Brian has begun his new job as a nurse practitioner here in town and he is slowly getting settled into his new role. I am...well....still in school!!! That's all I have to say about that for right now (I'm simply tired).
We traveled to Gatlinburg this year for our annual Tuttle family trip. I was glad we went during fall break this year, I took the kids down by myself on Wednesday and came back on Friday to watch Hunter's football game (which aired on ESPN-U). So proud of our team!!! The game was wet to say the least, I've been drier getting out of the shower then I was during that game, but oh was it worth it! After the game Brian, Hunter and I headed back down to TN to finish the rest of the weekend with our family. Did a little bit of shopping, and just spent time with the ones I love the most.

 Harrison played fall soccer and was on the team Fire this year, he has improved so much. Harrison is so fast!

Brian took the kids to Bearwallow farm this year with his mom and dad and their church, I worked but he did get a few pics of the kids for me.

We closed the month out with our Brumley family pumpkin carving contest, Hunter walked away this year with the winning pumpkin.

Most everyone was able to be there, and we had a really good time. Hadley just loved carving a pumpkin, well maybe I should say she loved getting the seeds out of the pumpkin.

We close out this month with the beginning of cheer competition, Hagan is starting with his basketball season, Harrison is in boy scouts and band, Hunter's football playoffs are in motion, and Haven's dance season. We just keep on keeping on, and that's all we can do for now. I did manage to get the Halloween decoration down and put away, and we drug out the Thanksgiving stuff last evening. Brian laughed and asked my why I was getting it out with just 3 weeks left until Thanksgiving? I just said "you know me, I'm never satisfied" if I don't put it out I would be sad, and sometimes you just have to do things that are aggravating and a pain in the you know what. We want our kids to know that there are just some things you do, and that's life. Plus it's nice looking at all the Thanksgiving decorations, it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. The next big question is whether or not we get all the Thanksgiving decoration down on Black Friday, so the Christmas decorations can go up. Traditionally we only celebrate one holiday at a time, and all though it would be a lot easier to decorate for Christmas along side Thanksgiving, it's just that.... easier. We don't want easy, we want CRAZY in this house!!!