small group

our small group had our christmas party tuesday night. i thought it would be a good idea to commemorate the occasion with a group photo...

regular

whatever...

tree

we got our christmas tree last week :)

the girls really enjoyed decorating it!

Merry Christmas!!

picasso

this is what hana did during nap today. it cost her one week of tv. hope it was worth it.

Thanksgiving take 2

ok i have finally gotten around to finishing up the thanksgiving pictures... so here you go :)

we decided to break with tradition this year and head to the asheboro zoo the day after thanksgivng (instead of our marathon shopping trips). we all had a blast! the animals all cooperated and we got to see them all! some of them we saw up really close. the kids were wonderful!! well here are a few pictures to commemorate our trip!

they had a fun playground for the kids

hana slides down the leaf

steven edward

us watching something (there was a lot of that :)

steven edward at the seals

and hana watching the seals
steven edward on the elephant

with nana and poppy, and nanny around... of course they had to ride the carousel

hana rides her favorite animal... the elephant

brooke rides too :)

hana on another elephant

like i said, we got to see a lot of animals! here are a few of them.

the elephants were SOOO close! it felt like you could reach out and touch them. hana was in heaven!

we had a GREAT day at the zoo!!

the bradys and the folands

thanksgiving take 2 will have to wait... it will be a long in a little while. i just had my first photo sessions... of people who are not my family! it was very exciting! i very much enjoyed taking their pictures. here are two sneak peaks of the pictures. but if you want to see more you will have to check out my photography blog! here is one of each family...enjoy!

thanksgiving take 1

we FINALLY have a new computer (thanks family for sending money!) and i can get on the internet!

so this is our thanksgivng. it is quite extensive so i will have to do this in two parts.

so the family gathered in greensboro to celebrate thanksgiving. there was a full house with us, courtney and her fmaily, nana and poppy, and nanny. we had a lot of just family together time. here are a few pictures of some family time

i just love this picture of hana holding sam

courtney and the kids

me, brooke, and sam

brooke and steven edward playing

steven edward playing solothe girls helping cook

after all of that eating, we HAD to walk it off!

hana and daddy during the after dinner walk

part two will be a long soon...

technical difficulties *update*

some of you may be wondering where the updates are. i mean it is the monday after thanksgiving and nothing from cornwall life. well sorry to disappoint you but our computer has taken the holidays off and decided not to turn on. hopefully it will decide to come around and grace us with it's presence. if not, we will have to get our christmas present a little early (a new computer).
so i am not able to connect to the outside world. it is a bit sad how disconnected i feel without my beloved internet. on that note, i will not be able to blog, check email, or any other interesting sites... for a little while. sigh.
you may wonder how i am bloging now. well luckily my dear husband has a laptop which he brings home after work and allows me a precious few minutes of computer time :)

so, as soon as our computer makes its way back to the land of the living, i will be sure to update you all on thanksgiving and all of our happenings... and there are many!


*ok update*... we have trouble shooted the computer and it is not the power source (which you would think since it wouldn't turn on). it is the motherboard. so i guess it is early christmas for the cornwalls. hopefully we will be up and running in the very near future :)