12.09.2009

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!!

12.07.2009

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!

12.06.2009

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!

12.05.2009

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