Georgia Homecoming

Every year we try to take the boys to the UGA Homecoming football game. It always falls around the boys birthdays and they LOVE going! It is so fun to take them around Athens--one of my most favorite places--and watch them take in the stadium full of people, being close to the players, Hairy Dawg, and this year Everett was definitely watching the cheerleaders.....what??? Anyway, we had a GREAT time this year again!

I love watching football with all my boys!!

Double Birthday Celebration

Happt 3rd Birthday Reid! You are growing up into such a fun little man! Mommy and Daddy are so thankful to be your parents!!

Aunt Andi with the boys

Cupcakes!!

Everett's 5th birthday

Here is a picture of Everett's 5th birthday celebration at school. He wanted me to bring in blue and green cupcakes to his class, with spiderman napkins....and i forgot they don't do superheroes at his school. Oops. Anyway, it was so fun to get to be with his class as they sung him happy birthday and made him a birthday crown! E--you deserve a crown! Mommy and Daddy are SO thankful that God chose us to be your parents and we count every minute with you a blessing! We love you so!!!

(I bet you thought you were going to get away without hearing--"I can't believe he is 5--how did that happen??" tear tear........sorry you are not so lucky!!)

Oh where do i start.....?

It has been FOREVER since I have posted. Things have been crazy around here. But four football games, two birthdays, one wedding, and one chemo treatment later here we are.

My sister Caroline got married in October to Rob, and we had a great time at their wedding in Atlanta.

The boys each had a birthday. I will try to do a seperate post about those.

About the chemo treatment--amongst all the craziness of the month of October, my mom was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. She started chemo a little over a week ago and found out great news from the doctor today! Her lymphocyte levels are back within the normal range (they were 38,000 and are now 4,800) and her platelets are up. This all means that the chemo is doing its job and that she could go into remission! Praise the Lord!!

Thanks so much for all your prayers!!

I am hoping to have some posts with updated pictures....but i wouldn't hold my breath if I were you......

Beach Pics

Surfer boy
one of my most favorite pictures......click on the picture to enlarge it and you can see the dolphin on the right side...

my boys....no idea what e was doing.....

my sweet reid

kisses!!

loving the beach.......

My baby's first day of school!!

i mean does he look two??

I am already having trouble with my BABY being old enough to go to school (k-3) but does he have to look so old??

Reid just dove in head first! He just LOVES it! I guess watching Everett go for the last couple of years got him ready, but there was no looking back once he was in his classroom. He even told me "Mommy, I will be okay...you can go now".

He also loves his backpack and lunch box....it goes almost everywhere we go. Thanks nai nai!!

First Day of Kindergarten

Better late than never....

here is a picture of my sweet KINDERGARTNER!

I can hardly believe that he is so big--i know everyone says it, but the time flies by! Although some days seem to go so slow....the years just fly by!
He is loving school and adjusting well to being in school "all day"!

his "girlfriend" Emerson is in his class, so that makes it even better!

E we are so proud of you!!!

Lovin' Sea World

Our first day in Orlando we went to Sea World and the boys LOVED it!!

They loved the animal shows and we saw most of them at least twice.

Here they are pretending like they are freezing with the penguins.....note the sweaty hair...we were anything but freezing!
Our picture with a real Budweiser Clydesdale


Daddy and E riding the crazy crab ride--E was so excited that he was tall enough to ride! Reid was just barely too short and not so excited about it......

But he was tall enough to ride the carousel on the hammerhead shark with Nai Nai

We ended the day with a WONDERFUL dinner at a restaurant in the shark tank. It was so fun to eat yummy crab cakes while we watched sharks swim in front of us!! The boys loved it...talk about entertainment during dinner! Thanks Nai Nai for a wonderful day at Sea World!!!

Trip to Orlando....

At the end of July we took a wonderful trip to Orlando with my mom, Nai Nai. We did all the Disney things (posts to come soon) but one of the boys most favorite things was the Pirate Dinner. Here are a couple of pics.....

Matt and E by the ship

Nai Nai, Everett, Reid, and Matt by the pirate ship.

This was the pirate for our section. We cheered for him in the competitions and he won most of them, the boys were so thrilled! Reid was more interested in watching the pirate than looking at the camera.....

So you think you can dance.....

Here are some pics of the boys "entertaining" the guests while we waited for the wedding party. Their job of ringbearers never seemed to stop.......

Just so you know, everyone else was sitting at their tables quietly visiting with one another while calm elevator music played while we waited.......

This is what E and R thought one should do with elevator music.....
(this is his finale...by the way)

Here we are dancing at the appropriate time (ie, when there was dance music playing and everyone else was on the dance floor). The sombrero and maracas came with the dj......a good time was had by all.

sunglasses also curtiousy of the dj.....

Wedding in Kansas City

A couple of weeks ago my cousin Greg got married to a wonderful girl, Jennifer, in Kansas City. When they asked the boys to be in the wedding and we were so excited --and a little scared! But the boys did great in their roles as ringbearers and looked SO cute in their tuxes! It was so fun to get to spend time with family adn get to know Jennifers fun family! Here are a couple of pictures.....

Nai Nai (Kadie's mom) and her boys

Do I go in this door?

Apparently Everett thought he was modeling the tux and Reid wasn't sure what to do with the pillow....


Sweet smile

Mimi and her boys

Fun at the sprinklers

This week Everett has been at KK and Papa's (Matt's parents) house, so Reid and I have had some fun "just Reid and Mommy time", as he likes to call it. We have gone to the water slide, painted pottery, watched a movie, had a picnic, played rocket ship--I have been to the moon and back so many times this week, and did you know that dinosaurs live on the moon? Ask Reid if you don't believe me!

This picture is from the sprinklers at a park near our house--it is such a fun thing to do on a HOT Charleston day.

Doesn't he look so cool in his googles? note--there is no standing water anywhere, hence no real need for "gobbles" except for the fabulous fashion statement....what can I say.....

Middle of the Night Bathroom Trip

Growing Strawberries...

Everett's First Strawberry

The boy and his prize

Showing off the good looking strawberry

And enjoying the goods! Yum!

This year we have started growing some herbs and fruits and vegetables in the yard. The strawberry was the first to come in and Reid's tomatoes came in next and they are so good!!

Graduation....

This past week Everett graduated from K-4. I can not believe that he will be in Kindergarten next year! A friend recently sent me some pictures of her and her precious new little one, Harrison, taken on their couch. The couch used to be ours--we had it when E was born. A fair amount of our pictures of Everett when he was ittybitty were taken on that couch. As soon as I saw the black and white toile (i loved that slipcover!) behind sweet Lauren holding Harrison, a slideshow of pictures of E when he was that little (1 week old) flashed in my head.....and now he is going to be in Kindergarten....where did the 5 years go?

Here are a couple of pictures from graduation. When they handed out the certificates they said something different about each child and it was fun to see what they said about everyone (see last picture for what they said about E). He had such a good time in school this year, he was sad to see it end, and is SO excited about next year. He might even get to be in Emersons class.....

Everett and his best friend from school Christopher

(christopher's dad is 6'7!)

Everett and one of his teachers Ms. Meador

Everett receiving his certificate from Mr. Wrenn

E with his certificate for being Observant in his display of academic excellence..

Strawberry Pickin'

A couple of weeks ago, ...I know I am SO behind on posts!, we went and picked strawberries. The boys absolutely LOVED it! We ended up going back a second time because they had such a good time. We had so many strawberries after our second trip that we couldn't possibly eat them all, so we tried our hand at making jam. It actually turned out great and is so much more affordable (and fun) than buying it at the store. I have no pictures of the jam making process because I was trying to supervise two wonderfully "helpful" boys as they tried to boil jars of jam. Thought the camera might be too much.......but they had a great time and now we have jam for at least 6 months and some to share!

lookin' good

Oh...i just love it when my boys get dressed up! Aren't they so handsome?!

seersucker blazers....gotta love em!