Rylie's Dedication

On Mothers Day, we had Rylie dedicated at our church. It was a special day and my mom was able to be there with us! We love dedicating our children to the Lord and, with the church family, commiting to raise them up in a Godly home. After all He gave them to us!

I also made my first smocked dress for her dedication. I had less than a week to make it, but it came together! I also learned A LOT :)--mostly what NOT to do next time!

My mom and Rylie

Mom and all the kids

Grandma Nellie's 90th Birthday!

Can you believe this BEAUTIFUL woman is 90??!

At the end of April Matt's family got together in Augusta to celebrate Grandma and her 90th birthday. Aunt Mari came in from florida with her daughter Moriah, and Matt's brother and his family came from Birmingham. We all gathered with LOTS of Augusta friends to celebrate!

I am so thankful that my kids have the opportunity to know this amazing woman! She is so caring, giving, and loving! She is fabulous example of a woman in love with the Lord! Matt and I were both blessed with wonderful grandmas, and we are so blessed to still have them in our lives!

Granma with Aunt Mari and Matt's mom--Kit

Grandma had 6 children, 12 grandchildren, and 5 GREATgrandchildren!

Here she is with two of her grandsons, and her 4 great-grandsons!

We love you so much Grandma and are so thankful you are in our lives!

sweet pics

So I thought I should post these sweet 9 months pics of Rylie before she turns 1! Where does the time go??

Daddy, can we please play Nerf?.....

........Is Rylie sleeping? Where is Mommy?

Those are the two things that must be taken care of to PLAY NERF (as the boys say)

The boys LOVE running around the house looking to get the stolen treasure from the other team, shooting each other a LOT along the way, and laughing it up :)

Am I the mom of boys or what??

Wouldn't trade it for anything in the world!

My awesome boys

getting ready to attack

go get 'em boys!

And he's off...........

After he finished school in May, reid quickly got working on his goal for the summer--to ride his bike without training wheels!

I don't know if I said this on Everett's learning to ride a bike post, but my husband ROCKS at teaching kids to ride a bike!! Seriously, E was riding about 2 hours later, and Reid learned in just a couple days of short riding sessions! The three of them have a ball riding around the neighborhood now!

There you go...

a little help....

and he's off!

We are so proud of all the wonderful things you are learning and the amazing boy you are becoming!

K-4 Graduation

In May, Reid graduated from K-4! I can't believe how big he is getting!

He had a GREAT year with Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Dampier and learned so much.

We are so proud of you !

Ready to graduate!

receiving his certificate


So proud!

His WONDERFUL teachers Mrs. Williams (l) and Mrs. Dampier (r)

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!!