Ella's school Chrsitmas party

Look at my chunk monkey......this baby, Elijah, was born 6 days after Quincy and weighed about a half pound less at his birth.
Grandma Jewkes and Ella. Ella was so excited to have her there. I think her expression says it all.


Singing "Rudolph". She even begged her teachers to sing a solo. I had no idea she was such an extrovert.
This is the gift she got from the gift exchange. She demanded that everyone looks at it and tell her how pretty she looked in it.

Perceptive little guy

So you know how people have smells??? Not necessarily a bad thing (but oh...it can be). When you go into some one's house or even smell their clothes it's as if it's a virtual name tag. You can identify it immediately as belonging to that person. My husband lovingly tells me I have "the nose of a hound dog" so I am especially talented at detecting these identifying smells. Well, my sweet little perceptive boy Link also inherited my hound dog of a nose. Well, Link and Coop (cousin) both have these light blue Horton elephants that they mildly worship. They were both playing with them the other day when I was watching Coop. Coop innocently handed Link one of the elephants and this is the conversation that ensued:
Coop "Dee Doo (Link), here's your ephelant"
Link: "Oh, thanks. Wait (sniff sniff)...this is not my ephelant. It smell like you Pooker. It's yours."
Coop: (looking confused) "Oh, thanks."
Link: "Where's my ephelant?" Meanwhile wandering around looking for it. He finds it and smells it. "Oh, here it is. This one is mine".

I thought it was pretty funny.
Of course Ella wanted to be in the picture. No, she did not wear this beautifully tie-dyed shirt to school. There is a little boy at school who constantly spills water on her (a.k.a. flirting) and so this is the schools "uh-oh" shirt. I remember those days...I used to hit all the boys thinking they liked it.
Ella had to have a stuffed animal in a shot too.
My baby boy Quincy was one one month old on the 8th and I took this picture. I am a very delayed blogger...he's now 5 1/2 weeks old.

Jason loves making gingerbread houses every year. He takes the construction of it very seriously. Oh...and the kids love it too! :)
The semi-finished Christmas tree. It's a work in progress. Jason is studying for his organic chem 2 final.....so he's slightly busy! :)

And we were preparing all week for this. Every year the city jason works in, Hampton, has a Christmas parade and after the businesses open there doors for refreshments. The dental office (in the hopes of drumming up business :)) served up cookies and my mother-in-law's famous dutch hot chocolate. There was a huge line outside our dental office. The party was definifetly at our place. I made about 600 cookies (like I said- I've been busy) and my mother-in-law made A LOT more than that. So, above is my picture of the parade. See how fast they were going? :) Grandpa Allred was driving like a maniac!
Before the parade an orthodontist's office in another city was doing pictures with Santa. Obviously this is from my camera, not theirs.


The cutest boy in the world. Quincy is getting huge...and soooo sweet. He's been my best baby thus far. But, that doesn't say much either! He's very gassy/burpy but other then that he's a pretty happy baby. Last night he even slept from 9:30-3 and then to 7:30. SWEET! I actually felt semi-rested.

Re-Do

Here's two of the pics that were tiny....I didn't have the time to do the rest.

Tis the season

Here's our Christmas tree. The cute little old man that took the pic at the top (without the Christmas tree in it mind you) I don't think had ever seen or operated a digital camera. We get our tree every year at a great place where you cut it down yourself and then they drag it to your car via golf cart. It's really fun for the kids. Sorry the pics are so small. I don't know why.

These pics are from Ella's Thanksgiving program at her school. She was soooo cute singing her little songs. We had a Thanksgiving dinner following the program consisting of southern turkey (fried chicken) canned green beans and frozen corn. mmmmmmm.

can't get enough

This little boy....so cute!
Her facial expression in this picture says everything.

Today Ella's school had Christmas pictures (???a little early, I know). She begged me to wear her hair curly like a princess. This was the best I could do right now. :) She loved it although it's a little 1992 Ms. Teen Georgia. Yes, I got the inspiration from my sister Jennifer who actually won that pageant some where around that date. :)

Meet Quincy

This precious boy was born at 5:16 a.m. on Sunday. Jason nearly had to deliver him in the car. We left our house at 3:30 and he was here less than 2 hrs later. It was quick and full of pain, but so worth it! He weighed 8 lbs. and was 19 inches long. It was love at first sight for both Jason and I. Welcome Quincy Theodore Allred!











Ella and Lincoln couldn't have been happier to meet their borther. Link asked if he had legs and Ella wondered how he came out and especially with Lincoln's same haircut (mohawk).

Skinny girls

Only skinny girls can looks this cute in leggings and boots. Dang it! :) Ella looked so cute this morning and was so excited to wear her new fuzzy boots that I had to take a picture. Her thug pose makes me laugh. I can see she's been watching too many Lil' Wayne music videos. Turn that MTV off girl!

ROUND ONE
DING DING DING DING! THANKS FOR SCORING ALL THAT SWEET CANDY FOR ME KIDDOS! :) ELLA AND LINK GOT HOOKED UP AT GRANDMA'S TRUNK-OR-TREAT. THIS IS ROUND ONE OF FOUR FOR LINCOLN AND ONE OF FIVE FOR ELLA. PHEW! I KNOW HER MAKEUP IS A LITTLE DRAMATIC...I AM SURE IT'LL GET TONED DOWN THE MORE TIMES I DO IT. BY ROUND FOUR SHE'LL PROBABLY HAVE NOTHING ON. ELLA IS A FLAMENCO DANCER (COMPLIMENTS OF MY SISTER RACHEL WHO JUST GOT BACK FROM SPAIN) AND LINCOLN IS A PIRATE....AGAIN. THE COSTUME FITS STILL, HE LOVES IT AND AS THE AGE OLD SAYING GOES, "IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT". I LIKE TO THINK OF THIS DYNAMIC DUO AS THE PIRATE WITH HIS LATIN LOVER. OK, THAT'S WEIRD, BUT DON'T THEY KIND OF GO TOGETHER?



ROUND TWO

The city of Hampton, where the dental office is located always hosts trick-or-treating up an down the street. Of course, we had to go. When a man asked Link the stereotypical question, "Who are you?" Lincoln replied as he ripped off his hat, "It's just me- Lincoln!". So cute.

ROUND THREE

This was at our ward's Halloween get together on Halloween. ANYWAY, BY THE TIME HALLOWEEN ACTUALLY ROLLED AROUND THIS WAS THE 5TH TIME ELLA HAD DRESSED UP. SHE DRESSED UP FOR SCHOOL AS WELL (ROUND FIVE FOR HER). SO WHEN SHE TOLD ME SHE WANTED TO BE A BALLERINA...I WAS THRILLED. THIS INVOLVED NO MAKE-UP! AND LINK SIMPLY WANTED TO PUT ON HIS FIREMAN COAT. THEY GOT NO ARGUMENTS FROM ME. THE PRESSURE TO LOOK CUTE ON HALLOWEEN WAS NON EXISTENT. YEAH! As the Young Men's president Jason was asked that they sponsor a game. He chose the donut game and the kids were thrilled. Ella has some serious donut-eating skills of which she got from me.
ROUND FOUR

YES, I HAVE A DOUBLE CHIN. I AM CHINNING FOR TWO! THAT WAS LAME. SORRY. WE ARE COMPARING STOMACHS HERE. THE KIDS THOUGH IT WAS FUNNY THAT HE HAD A BIG TUMMY, LIKE MOMMY. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY HILARIOUS HOW UNCOMFORTABLE JASON THOUGHT THIS WEIGHTLESS STOMACH WAS. HE KEPT COMPLAINING THAT IT INHIBITED HIS MOVEMENT. PLEASE.

PS- ON A SLIGHTLY BITTER SIDE NOTE... I WAS CERTAIN THIS BABY WOULD BE HERE BY HALLOWEEN. AFTER ALL, I HAD LINK TWO WEEKS EARLY. HERE I AM THOUGH WITH LESS THAN TWO WEEKS TO GO. UGH. I HAD EVEN BOUGHT HIM A COSTUME. TIME TO RETURN IT! THE FULL MOON ISN'T DOING IT'S JOB EITHER.