Fall is in the air......

You know you're living in Tennessee when you spend your Saturday at the "Touch a Truck" Festival. It sounds strange, but it was a lot of fun for the kids (and us, too)! A local church had arranged for around 40-50 types of trucks (dump trucks, garbage trucks, cement trucks, trailer trucks, trolleys, farm equipment, fire trucks, army trucks, ambulances, etc.) to be in one place at the same time and they let the kids (and adults) climb on them and pretend to drive them. Connor and Spencer's favorites were the fork lift (which they actually got to operate) and the ambulance (where they pretended to "treat" their friend Haddon for a knee problem. Here are a few pictures from the day............

Sgt. Spencer reporting for duty...........

We have been having a blast during the month of October, doing all kinds of fun fall things..............visiting pumpkin patches, going to pumpkin festivals, dressing up in our costumes and carving our pumpkin. We've even been making some fun Halloween crafts at home. This year the boys picked out their own Halloween costumes - Connor chose a St. Bernard (after I steered him away from a somewhat feminine-looking bumble bee) and Spencer chose to be a monkey. Graycen will be riding around in her stroller this year dressed as a caterpillar. Connor and Spencer have really had a fun time acting in character when they wear the costumes. Here are some pictures of our fall activities...............

Trick-or-treating in Historic Downtown Franklin at the annual Pumpkin Festival......

For music class during the week of Halloween, all of the kids wore their costumes to class!

She's Growing so Fast

Graycen continues to be a joy as she is "talking" and smiling more and more everyday. She is particularly fond of looking at herself in the mirror right now. She is almost 4 months (where does the time go) and is beginning to watch her big brothers. They are getting pretty good at getting her to smile and laugh at them. Here are a few recent pictures of her..........

My family would like to make it clear that they would like Graycen to cheer for Alabama this football season....................here she is on game day with her papaw in a dress given to her by her great-grandpa!

A little late on this one...........

These were taken when Graycen was 2.5 weeks old, but I wanted to share some of them......

Graycen is 10.5 weeks old and it has been quite a month of firsts for Graycen. Her big brothers showed her the ropes at the Nashville Zoo, a local hands on children's museum and Disney on Ice. She flew on an airplane for the first time as we traveled to the wedding of Ryan's cousin, Brandy, in North Carolina. Graycen is smiling a lot more now, has begun "talking" and can roll over from her tummy to her back.

Connor and Spencer wanted Graycen to play with their stuffed animals!

Here are a few pictures from Disney on Ice this past weekend...........

Look at these proud "Big Brothers"

e had a great time at the wedding and had so much fun with Ryan's family. Graycen got to meet lots of family members including her Uncle Chris, Aunt Michelle, Cousins Nicholas and Kaitlyn and Great-Grandma Eldredge. Here are some pictures we took on the trip.......

Up, up and away.........

Graycen and her cousin Nicholas

Graycen and her Poppy at the wedding.

Connor and Spencer are having a blast with there new little sister - they just can't seem to keep their hands off of her face. Here are some pictures of our trips to the zoo and museum.

Getting ready to go to the zoo.....

Spencer having a great time at the hand's on museum.

Connor with Gran-Gran in the cars exhibit.

Big Brothers Connor and Spencer are becoming quite the chatterboxes and provide us with hours of fun listening to them talk to each other about everything. My favorite moment happened a few weeks ago when the boys were chasing each other in and out of a fort we made on a rainy day. All of a sudden, Spencer stopped running, turned to Connor and said, "This is fun, this is really fun!!" To which Connor answered, "Yeah!" before beginning the chase again.

Connor and Spencer in the previously mentioned fort!

Little Farmers

Due to technical (or user) difficulties, this picture should have gone with the previous posting along with several paragraphs about how much fun we had last week with the boys at the county fair (picture below of the boys practicing to be farmers) and at the Nashville Sounds baseball game.

All dressed up with some place to go.....

Graycen ready for a birthday party.

We had a lot of fun last week with the boys, taking them to the county fair with some friends (there favorite thing was the clown show), and to the Nashville Sounds baseball game. The boys enjoyed watching the game, but were mostly interested in the Lion mascot. They have been such great big brothers to Graycen and continue to keep us entertained with their antics and new sayings. My favorite thing right now is the fact that they try to stall going to bed at night by asking for "more kisses" from Mommy and Daddy over and over.

A typical breakfast in the Dorr household.....

Enjoying some ice cream sandwiches at the county fair......

Graycen is 6 weeks old today and is proving to be a very easy-going baby so far.........She is hanging tough with her big brothers who love to squeeze her and stick their fingers in her eyes when they become so excited to see her they can hardly stand it! She continues to eat and sleep well and made her first trip to Alabama to visit mommy's side of the family this past weekend...... Here are some more pictures of our little girl..........

I'm a little late posting this one..........

Meeting her great - grandfather ......