Thanksgiving week

With Josh on Thanksgiving Break, we have had a nice relaxing week enjoying friends and family. I have been plugging away making hair bows and accessories for the Craft Fair Dec. 6th. Besides my fingers being numb from using the lighter and pulling ribbon, I've made good progress. If people would stop giving me orders, I'd be able to make more bows for the Fair, but I guess that's a good problem to have.
Josh had a great time with his traditional Black Friday shopping. He and my mom go out each year and shop (she's the only one willing to get up that early). This year he came home with a real treat. He used his birthday money to get Rockband! We LOVE it! We are like wiiaholics now, wii, wii fit, now rockband, anyone wanna come over to play?
The girls have gotten to some great stages in their development. Makayla continually says, "I can't, Mommy, you do it," and Caroline has begun "No!" Can't you just imagine the fun we're having at our house? Caroline has really developed a cute personality. Makayla has become a little more shy and Caroline is really coming out of her shell (as you can tell from the photos below) She has a thing with putting things on her head.
Hope you enjoy the pics. I hope to get somemore Thanksgiving pictures e-mailed to me.

All the Cousins playing piano together on Thanksgiving

Caroline's First Hair Cut

Tonite was family hair cut night, at least for the girls. It was Caroline's first ever hair cut, which was a little sad for me, because her hair is so long and I had to level it off, so she lost some precious curls! It wasn't easy, but we got the job done. All girls love a hair cut!

Cuddle time with Daddy before bed

Let it Snow!

Yep! Mark it on your calendar folks. It snowed in NC on November 18th! Craziness I know! Of course, it was only for about 5 minutes, but snow is snow. I snapped some pictures from our front porch for proof, so look real hard and you'll see some flakes.

See all of those flakes in the air!

All those flakes on the stairs! Don't fall!

How is it snowing when it's 45 degrees outside?

Welcome to Moe's!

So we have had an exciting week, and not just because it was Josh's birthday on Friday (29! Can you believe it?) My sweet husband spent the night outside of Moe's to get free burritos for a year. Thanks to him, we have 52 (well, 50 now) free burrito coupons to use as we please. He had a great night with two of his friends playing Wii, and hanging out. Hey, it was his birthday, he can do what he wants! At least he enjoyed the surprise party I threw for him, for about an hour :)

The girls and I had a fun week playing at home. Nothing too big to talk about, but some cute pictures to admire!

Notice Makayla running up behind Caroline to pull off her underwear

What great Chef's I have!

In other great Bradley news: I'm gearing up for another craft fair. This one is going to be HUGE! We are having it at church and so far we have 16 different vendors, name brand and handmade. I'm looking forward to it...and the profits :)

Our Little Addition

After a little mix up at the SPCA, we finally have our new pet cat. We took the girls to visit the SPCA to just see the dogs, but when we saw the cats, we just couldn't resist. After spending all Saturday checking out cats at various places, we finally found a cat that we loved and who loved the girls as well. We spent the time and money adopting the cat and when we got home, we realized we had the wrong cat! We spent the night with the cat, thinking we could make due, but my heart had already bed sold to another cat. I made the trip back to the SPCA with cat #1 in tow, begging and pleading for an exchange. We had two things against us, 1) they don't do exchanges 2) the cat we had fallen in love with was 2 months too young for our girls. So I stood there and made puppy eyes at our cat (can you do that?) while I waited to talk to the manager. After much sympathetic pleading, she agreed it was an honest mistake and kindly switched the cats. We are SOOOOOOO happy with our new cat. His name is Mason. He is friendly, loves people, loves attention and loves to play, which is as close to a dog as we can get, so we love it! He's litter box trained and doesn't bite, what could be better? So welcome Mason Bradley to our family!

Mason Bradley

Not Mason, but a really cute picture from this week

Trick or Treat

Friday night we dressed the girls up for the third time (we had already done a Trunk or Treat and had costume day at daycare). The girls got to go around our complex and trick or treat. They had a great time, but got used to saying "Nobody's home!" Makayla did well telling everyone "Trick or treat." Caroline just wanted to hang out with everybody, she just stood in their doorway until we picked her up. One family actually invited her in (we had met them before at the park) and she actually started going in. So I would say it's been a great success. Josh and I sure have enjoyed their candy.
In other Bradley news: Josh is plugging away in school. The test he thought he failed he got a 97 on, so I would say he's doing fairly well. He got his classes registered for next spring. He's doing his pediatric and ob/gyn clinicals, so that should be interesting. I spent a week at my daycare job and quickly realized that is was not a match. I literally got a doctors note for Friday for Caroline, so I had to stay home with her and then I let them know I would not be coming back. So, yet again, we are still trying to figure out what God wants us to do. At least at this point I am at more peace with our situation. I trust that God will lead us through this, whether He blesses us with money or not.