Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from the Cronins!
We hope everyone's holiday was as wonderful and tasty as ours!

Thankful

Keith and I have so much to be thankful for!

Here are a few blessings- starting with the obvious:

These people...

Too many friends to post pictures...

DARCY...

A year and 2 months of marriage...
A roof over our heads and good food on the table...

Our jobs...And now, the not so obvious (or in other words, the more shallow):

The opportunity to travel to places like these...

My mini/bendable camera tripod so we can take pictures of ourselves in places like those...

Pumpkin pie in the sky ice cream at Coldstone & peppermint and white chocolate hershey kisses

Coupons- particularly to...

the dentist (yay for my 2 front teeth being fixed once and for all)

Best Buy (can't beat a new tv during football season)
Bed Bath and Beyond (Tobi the steamer makes me happy)
and Arbys (where else can you get dinner for $1.41)

Christmas lights brightening the neighborhood

What are you thankful for?

Happy Birthday Hubby!

Happy 27th Birthday to Keith today! We celebrated with a home-cooked (ok, Whole Foods cooked) meal on our china Friday night, dinner out and a date to see The Blindside (highly recommended) Saturday night, and lunch with the whole family today after church. It was a great birthday weekend!

Then & Now

Then...

Now...

Our girls weekend in Birmingham was so much fun...

food, friends, more food, shopping, laughing = great memories!

Keith stayed home and worked hard... both for his job and around the house. I came home to a leafless yard, (semi) clean home, and freshly baked blueberry muffins. Isn't he the best :)

Photo Friday

Keith is going to kill me, but here's this week's

Photo Friday pic:

Thanks Mary Rosenbaum for capturing such a cute image of my wonderful hubby!

Day in the Park

Sunday was a beautiful, sunny November day so we took advantage of it and headed to the park with Darcy. We decided to go to where Steeplechase is held every year. Darcy loved it! She ran and jumped and played on the horse stuff and eventually wore herself out.

Halloween 09

We had a busy Halloween. House projects, my first attempt at baking from scratch, trick-or-treaters, and dinner at SOL made the "holiday" pass quickly.

I am obsessed with all things pumpkin, so while Keith was fixing drawers, windows, and our door knocker, I decided to try a pumpkin cookie recipe I happened to come across. I will start by saying that every time I attempt "baking" anything (always from a box mix) it does not turn out. Maybe I should have taken this into consideration. Maybe I also should have taken into consideration that I had to google how to "cream" and ask to borrow a sifter and how to use it. But I'm glad I didn't. These cookies are GOOD! Halloween night we got our house and ourselves ready for trick-or-treaters. Of course we had to display our awesome pumpkin (even if it was a little moldy) on our front porch.
We also dressed up for the trick-or-treaters (and our own amusement). Darcy wore her Titans jersey, I brought back my Peyton Manning costume from '06, and Keith was Jeff Fisher- painted mustache and all. I must say we look pretty good for some last minute planning.
We were a little disappointed in the turnout (or lack thereof) this year. Keith estimated about 30, but I'd guess it was a few less. Plus, they all came in groups so our doorbell didn't ring very much. In hindsight that's probably a good thing because Darcy wasn't giving the kids a very warm welcome.

After handing out candy we headed to downtown Franklin for dinner at SOL with Aimee and Nick. SOL offered its first annual Halloween 5 course menu. In addition to guacamole made tableside, we had shrimp, a pumpkin taco, a fish taco, a goat taco, and an amazing Mexican cinnamon dessert. YUM (well, maybe not the goat, but definitely everything else)! There was a band playing in the street right outside the restaurant so we danced to Soul Circus (or something like that) after dinner.
It was the perfect way to spend our Halloween!