Pirates

The boys had so much fun painting and playing with these pirate masks this weekend. Not so much fun taking the picture........but I promise they love the masks!!

They are "kinda like twins with some stuff different--like the color of the nose and our scars" according to Reid.

4 months

I can not believe our baby girl if four months old already! They grow up so fast--especially the third one!!

Rylie is such a sweet blessing to our family! We are all loving having her around. She is now belly laughing a lot--especially at the boys, and they LOVE to entertain her!

She is still sleeping GREAT and eating wonderfully! She is pretty much always happy and smiling. She has starting rolling over and the boys love to lay down on the floor and "teach" her how to do it. She has found her feet and loves to play with them--and try to get them in her mouth.

We love you baby girl!

Her stats at her four month appointment--

weight-- 12 lbs. 4 oz. 20 %

height--27 in. 90%

we have a skinny string bean on our hands!

Reid's First Day of K-4

And this one started K-4 this September. He absolutely LOVES school, his teacher Mrs. Dampier, and is learning SO much!

Sweet smile! I love this boy and we are SO proud of who he is becoming!

First Day of First Grade

My oldest, sweet boy started First grade this year---what???? I can hardly believe it!

Here is the handsome boy

and his proud Mama

and his brother wishing him well.

About 5 minutes after this picture was taken Reid started asking when his brother was going to be home......it w.as a long day!!

Everett is doing SO well in First grade. We definitely made the right (hard) choice to move him up (he is a year ahead for his age)

Mary and Joseph

Everett has Hero Day at school at halloween time and they can be a hero from the Bible, or a community hero. This year he and Emerson decided to be Mary and Joseph. They were SO cute--although she had a bit of a hard time convincing him to hold the baby! Here are a couple of pictures of the happy couple.

I just love this one!

Funny story--another girl in his class was also Mary and the day before hero day Emerson told Everett that he was going to be "a very busy Joseph the next day"!

Go Braves!!

In August Everett went to his first Braves game. He had such a great time. He started it off right with tickets in a box--and a famous person in the box with us! Mark Lemke came into the box after he finsihed his pregame show. For those of you who don't know, Mark played second base for the Braves in the 90's and went to several World Series with them. He was such a nice guy and talked to Everett about his T-ball games and told him that he once played in Charleston in the minor leagues. Everett got his autograph on his ticket and has it in a special place in his room with the picture of him with Mark. What a special night for him!

Everett and Mark Lemke

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween! We had a great Halloween this year! We went over to some friend's house for dinner-Garrett's house to be specific (Reid's best, inseperable, don't know what we are going to do when they have to move next fall, friend). We then dressed all the kids up and went trick-or-treating. Bonnie and her little girl Ashley joined us, and the 5 (plus Rylie) kids had a GREAT time! Everett was a stormtrooper, Reid was a pirate, and Rylie was a ladybug. It was really fun but it was a bit warm for my liking--isn't it supposed to be a least a little cool and crisp for halloween?? It was 80!

Everett and Reid--thanks Aunt Mari for the costumes!

E, Rylie, and Reid

Our little ladybug

Garrett, E, and Reid

The whole gang!

Ashley, Claire, Garrett, E, and Reid

Corn Maze

Last week we went to the West Corn Maze and had such a great time. There is a pumpkin patch, a LONG corn maze (it was 85 degrees!), and Everett got to paint a pumpkin. Sadly Reid was home with the swine flu, so he missed out, but he is feeling better now, so that is great!

Everett holding his baby sister at the Pumpkin patch. he is such a great big brother!
e on the giant pumpkin


rylie and the giant pumpkin

E, Rylie, and me on the hay ride

We had such a good time, but missed Reid and Daddy!