Easter

This was the first Easter we have been in Summerville since we moved here 4 years ago--kind of crazy! But we loved being at our church on Easter Sunday! Matt's parents came in for the weekend and the kids loved playing games and reading books with KK, while we worked in the yard and got a lot done!

We made Resurection Cookies and read the story from the Bible---I love celebrating Christ rising from the dead with my children!

Rylie's First Easter! She loved her Easter Basket!

sweet smile!

KK and Papa with the boys

Air and Space Museum

We went to visit my grandmother in Tulsa, Oklahoma for Spring Break last week. We had a great time!

It was kind of cold and rainy while we were there, so one day we went to the Air and Space Museum. The boys LOVED it! We have several friends who are pilots in the Air Force and the boys kept pretending like they were Mr. Jeremy and Mr. Aaron. It was so cute. I kept asking them to fly me to Hawaii to see Mr. Aaron's wife but it didn't happen....sigh

Anyway, here are some cute pictures from the day!

Flying the plane

In the cockpit

Astronaut Reid

Astronaut Everett

Everett's First Baseball game

Everett started machine pitch baseball this spring and LOVES it! He is having a good time playing with his friends and learning all about "real baseball" as he calls it. (he is comparing it to tee ball that he played last year)

Go Diamondbacks!

Snow!

Earlier this year we got a huge amount of snow for this area--6 inches! They haven't had that much snow here in 10 years--and Everett is quick to point out that he will be driving when we get that much again--if the pattern continues--scary!!

We all had such a great time playing in the snow and I think they stayed out there for 3 or 4 hours! And since we had lost power in the middle of the night before, and it stayed out all day--it was a cold house to come in to! But we all came in changed into dry clothes and went out to get lunch--and warm up--since i couldn't cook without power :)

So thankful that the kids got to experience snow, even though we live in Charleston!

Mommy and the boy's snowman

Reid and Daddy's snowman

Snowball fight!

Loving the snow!

Rylie all bundled up and ready to go!

Our house covered in snow!

Valentines Day

Rylie and her sock monkey. I LOVE the tutu!!

Happy kiddos!

We are so blessed!

New Years Eve

The boys and their sparklers on New Years Eve. We had a fake midnight at around 9ish..........

They loved it!

Christmas with Poppy

Rylie with Poppy--my dad--at Christmas. And Minnie Mouse her fun Christmas present!

The boys and Poppy

Christmas Eve

The whole family--minus Caroline and Rob

Four Generations of Women

Great Grandma, Grandma, and the kids
(not sure about Reid's face........)

My mom and grandma

Everett and his Nai Nai

Favorite

My mom spent almost the whole month of December with us--inbetween trips to the Mayo Clinic and Disney! The kids LOVEd having Nai Nai here that whole time and this is a picture of what they did a lot--"Nai Nai--can you read this to me?"

One of my favorite pictures!

Disney Fun

Ok--I am SO far behind, but I want to do a quick overview of the last couple of months for our blog--so I can remember what happened during this crazy but AWESOME time in our family!

All of us with Mickey

The boys playing at the T-Rex Cafe--digging for bones....

......Reid in the car 10 minutes later after the stomach bug made his first apperance (note the new, bought-at-T-Rex Cafe shirt......yep, he puked all over his other one!)

Meeting the Incredibles!

and Prince Caspian--a new favorite in our family.

We LOVE the Narnia series! E got the price Caspian movie for Christmas and KK and Papa gave us a read aloud copy of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for Christmas. We read that two chapters a night, out loud as family. Now we are reading Prince Caspian--the boys love it and I am loving the great family time!

5 Months!

This sweet girl got to meet Minnie Mouse on her 5 month birthday!

We are in Disney and having a great time......just wish the stomach bug hadn't come along to see Mickey :(

(she was obsessed with Minnie's HUGE hands!)

What she is loving these days:

- grabbing and then eating her toes

-watching EVERY bite you take while you are eating

-rolling over

-laughing at her personal comedy duo that is ALWAYS willing to perform

-snuggling with her bunny

-"talking" to everyone

-smiling with a huge open mouth smile that we all love!!

We love you baby girl and are so thankful for you!!

Trimming the tree

We put up and decorated our tree right after Thanksgiving, because we are going to be out of town so much we wanted to be able to enjoy it at least a little bit!

My computer is down so I can't edit any of these pics, which is killing me, but here are a couple of shots from the boys decorating the tree. They had a wonderful time! Everett is wearing his jacket, not because it was cold, but because he was keeping some special things in his pocket and he didn't want to lose them. i think it was a rock and three pennies.

The boys showing off their wonderful decorating skills!

Mommy and her boys

Mommy and her baby girl

Rylie and Nai Nai.

Rylie loved the watching the lights and her crazy brothers!

Family Pictures

While we were in Augusta, Matt's parents had someone come and take family pictures. The kids were all cooperative and we managed to get some good ones!

Our family of 5

KK and Rylie

All the boys!

The Whole Family

Thanksgiving 2009

For Thanksgiving this year we headed to Augusta to Matt's parents house. His brother and sister and their families were there also. We had such a great time. The boys loved playing with their cousins-Jackson-5 and Jonathan-3, and we all loved having Scotty (andi's husband) with us for the first time as an "official" family member--he is SO fun!

We ate a lot, played a lot, and had a lot of fun conversations.

Matt with Rylie on her first Thanksgiving. She is wearing her turkey dress that I made her!

Grandma Nellie (matt's grandma) and Rylie.

It is so precious that our kids have 2 great grandmothers that they get to know and spend time with! What a blessing!

Rylie with KK and Papa

Jackson and Everett playing dominos

All the boys with their swords. They played outside SO much while we were there. KK and Papa have a wonderful yard for the boys to have adventures in!

Fun Football Game

We try to take the boys to a football every year for their birthdays. They LOVE going to Athens to watch the Dawgs play, and we love going back to one of our favorite places on earth! We usually go to the Homecoming game--there are lots of fun festivities and it is guaranteed to be an afternoon game. But this year Matt's brother turns the big 4 0 in decmeber and his wife threw a surprise party (so fun and he was SO surprised.....it was 2 months early after all!) the weekend of homecoming, so we went to the Kentucky game. The week before the game i checked the schedule for game time and it said 7:45 p.m.---seriously? That is 30 minutes oast our boys bedtime.......

BUT they did GREAT!

We drove from Atlanta up to Athens--walked around campus a bit, and then ate dinner in downtown Athens. Oh my--I do love downtown Athens. We headed to the game and watched the Dawgs warm up, and the boys made it to the middle of the third quarter! Reid turned me at one point and said "I am ready to go home now. I need to sleep." We knew then that it was time to go!

The boys had such a great time at the game and Rylie had a wonderful time hanging out with Nai Nai!

Go Dawgs!

Field level--the boys loved being so close to the players

At dinner

walking on the railroad tracks to Sanford Stadium