Tree Decorating

Jeremy assembled the tree a few days ago, but had a hard time finding the lights in the storage room at his office (aka our attic). He finally came across them today so the boys were able to decorate it tonight. Every once in a while, we would hear glass shattering... Ethan dropped and broke 4 and one fell apart on Caleb. Oh well!

Spec House 1

 We love building and are really excited to be back in action! We plan to do many more after these first 2 and hopefully one for US in the near future. :)

14 Towels!!!

One of my friends decided to give a bunch of towels as Christmas gifts... 14 of them to be exact! I've been working like crazy on them the last few days, I think they all turned out really cute!

So Much for Super Powers

Yoshi strikes AGAIN!! Ethan has only had his Super Hero Pegs for 2 days and Yoshi got a hold of one this morning.. Ugh!!! I wish he would quit chewing on stuff!! He has ruined so much of our stuff!!!! You can see Ethan below the peg getting onto Yoshi (it's so cute!)

SodaStream at Bunko

I was selected as a SodaStream Party Hostess with HouseParty.com. They sent us a free machine and tons of flavors! I tried to host my party the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, but only 1 couple showed up (The Harwells) so I decided to bring it to Bunko to show everyone there and to get a picture. You have to submit a picture of the people at your party on the HouseParty website, the more people, the more likely you will be chosen as a hostess in the future. Gotta love FREE STUFF!

Corley Thanksgiving

We normally get together on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, but moved it to the Sunday after so we could go to Memphis a day earlier so we could come back a day earlier to see the Jones' while they were in town. Fred and Janet met my mom to get Ethan yesterday and I teared up when I finally got to see him today. It was a long quiet week without him around.

Roller Skating

While we were bowling last night, we decided to all go roller skating today!! It was a lot of fun and the boys all want Roller Blades for Christmas now. The Jones' are in town and Carter tagged along with another family, here's Jeremy helping him out. :)

Bowling!

Tonight we went bowling with a couple of our family friends. We had the adults on 1 lane (competing as couples, of course), the teens on another lane, and the kids on the next. Jeremy and I won!! Woot Woot!

Cracker Barrel Thanksgiving

At first, Jeremy wanted to go all out and cook our Thanksgiving meal for us, then I changed his mind because ordering Cracker Barrel would be cheaper and a lot less work. The food was good, but nothing beats Mamaws!

Sick Caleb

Caleb, who is never sick, hasn't been feeling very good the last couple of days so Jeremy took him to the doctor today, while I packed for our trip to Arkansas for Thanksgiving. Turns out he has strep, so we had to cancel our trip.. didn't want my grandmother or little cousins to catch it. :( We will have to figure out a way to get Ethan back now.

Cool Dude

Ethan went home with my mom after the birthday party. She sent me this picture and said that he had on his sunglasses all day, but refused to wear them in the picture (surprise, surprise).

Male model

Today, I made a skirt for a friend's daughter that is the same age as the twins. I used Andrew as my model to get it the right size. He decided since he was in a skirt that he needed to do a hula dance. :)

Cumberland Caverns

Today, we went to Cumberland Caverns for Michael's (my nephew) birthday party. My sister and her friends drove 5 hours one way to get there and drove right back when it was over (crazy!). We all had a really good time and thought it was neat that in the middle of the cave tour they did a light show that was about Creation. :)

Twin's First Game

It is really difficult to get both boys in the picture at the same time when they are both moving fast- usually in different directions. You can see Matthew in the center of the group of boys and Andrew's right arm behind the player with the ball.

Caleb's First Baskeball Game

Tonight was Caleb's first basketball game of the season. Even though he is one of the oldest on the team, he is still one of the shortest. I thought this picture was neat because everyone around him is blurry, but he is pretty clear. :)

Super Hero Pegs

I saw these cute little Super Hero Pegs on Pinterest and decided to make sets for Ethan and Carter. They were really time consuming but I think they turned out really cute!

Thanksgiving Dinner at HBC

Tonight our church had it's annual Thanksgiving dinner. Since Jeremy is a deacon he was a waiter, I had to get a shot of him in action. :)

New Haircut for Andrew

Andrew got a "wild hair" tonight and decided to let Jeremy cut off his long locks. He decided to go super short so it would be a drastic change (the kid likes attention). He looks so different now!

Ticket to Ride

I bought Jeremy this board game for his birthday and we finally had a chance to play it tonight. It is super fun!! You get "tickets" that tell you 2 cities that you have to build your railroad between and you get points along the way. We really like it!

70 degrees and freezing!!!

Matthew had a soccer game today so Fred and Janet came up to watch him play. We thought the weather would be nice because it was 70 degrees, but it turned out to be super cold because the wind was super strong! We weren't dressed for cold weather... its a good thing we had some blankets in the car!

Sigma Chi Football

This morning, Jeremy played in a flag football game at Austin Peay. It was the Sigma Actives vs. the Alumni. I teased Jeremy that the young guys were going to show the old people how old they really were but the Alumni killed the Actives!! Jeremy was one of the oldest guys playing and the best on the field. :)

Disney World Game

We are all missing Disney World, so tonight we decided to play our Magic Kingdom board game (we've had it for years). The kids said, wow... the park is just like the layout of the game!!! I had to laugh and tell them, no, the game is the layout of the park. :)

Monkey Outfit

While I was shopping for fabric the other day, I saw this cute sock monkey fleece and decided to make Ethan an outfit with it. I really wanted him to try it on during the process so I could see if it was going to fit him, but he refused all day! I finally talked him into putting it on after it was done and, of course, I wanted to take his picture in it, and, of course, he didn't want me to! I chased him all around the house and finally stuck him on this table so he couldn't run anymore. You can tell he wasn't too happy about it. He ended up wearing it for 3 days straight (day and night) because he didn't want to take it off... go figure!

Happy Birthday, Jeremy!

Jeremy is now 3 years shy of the big 4-0!! We met the Harwells at Michael's Pizza for dinner and cake to celebrate. Happy Birthday, Jeremy!!

Election Day

I'm not really into politics, but all you saw on the tv and internet today was about the election. Our guy, Mitt Romney, didn't win, so we have 4 more years of Obama. :(

Boy Time

The kids don't have school tomorrow because of election day, so Jeremy brought Paxton home from the FLC with him as a surprise to the boys. Poor kid has 3 sister and loves having "boy time at the Corleys."

Teaching

Jeremy started teaching our LIFE Group at Hilldale soon after we became members 9 years ago (He taught at our previous church too). Everyone enjoys his lessons. :) 

(He has no idea I took this picture for the blog, lol)

Paintball Party

Today we went to Carter Sutton's Paintball birthday party. Andrew and Matthew both got hit pretty hard and came home with big whelps. They hurt, but LOVED it!

Movie Night

Tonight we went to the Harwells for dinner and games. We got the kids the new Madagascar movie to watch, they were all glued to the screen. 

Family Bowling

The kids have been asking to go bowling for the last couple of weeks, but we have had no time in our schedule to go until today! (We squeezed it in between homework and basketball practice). I took this picture of Ethan after he got a STRIKE! He was so excited (and so cute!). 

In other news.... Jeremy scored 121 and I scored 141.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner! lol