Christmas at Dad O and Shirley's

A cousin picture (minus Macy)

 My silly boys

 me and my man

 My boys being sillier!

 This is what trying to get a picture looks like...

 And this is what it looks like when one child can't calm down and the photographer has a finger over the flash =)

 THIS is what PURE sweetness looks like! My littlest niece, Macy

 What would a day with the cousins  be without some wrestling?

Happy THIRD Birthday NASH!

 My littlest boy turned 3 on December 11th. I took his favorite cookies from Beagle Bagel to his school the day before his real birthday to celebrate with his friends there. He was a little teased when everyone was singing! But man, has he come a long way! Look at him blowing those candles out like a pro!

 Another thing I got to do that day was read a book to his sweet class. I read "God gave us Christmas" and suprisingly, all the two year olds sat there quietly and listened! Can you tell that Nash was happy to have his Mama in his class?!

 After I read, his teachers put on a show for me and he and his friends sang all of their songs and even didn some dancing for me too! This is when they were singing a blessing song. Precious babies.

 That night, Nash went to bed a two year old and I got my last kisses and hugs from him as a two year old...

Pretending to be asleep =)

 The next morning, he woke up a 3 year old!!! The crazy thing is that when he got up, it was about 2 minutes after the actual time he was born! (he was born at 7:32 and woke up at 7:34!)

 A cute little 3 year old with a cute little bed head =)

 We had his party on his actual birthday. We had a 'family party' with our cousins at a local pottery painting place! All the kiddos had a GREAT time! The 'theme' was penguins. I made my own invitations (not pictured) and had our sweet baker at the store make this cake. It was chocolate cake with cream cheese icing. We used the cute banner that Jenny gave Nash for his birthday last year!

 He was so proud. He couldn't even look away from his masterpiece of a cowboy hat to give me a smile at the camera!

 Ben, Nash (with Aunt Char helping), Camp (with Daddy helping) and Luke.

 My dad (Papaw), my sister, Thomas, Abby (with one of the ladies that worked there), Andy holding Eli.

 Me and Sister

 My little family. (Remind me to NOT paint any walls in my house yellow in rooms in which I would like to take pictures on automatic setting! The flash didn't want to work in this yellow room. Camp's room at school is the same way!) BUT this pic turned out CUTE, I think!

 Teased and proud at the same time!

 Blowing the candles out!

 Opening presents.

To say that Nash enjoyed himself is an understatement. We planned this party to be smaller b/c he tends to have more fun in smaller groups where he knows everyone well. Well, we were spot on! He loved it and had a big time! I can't believe this baby boy is THREE! He is a little chatterbox and oh so funny! We finally have him potty trained! Praise the Lord! He is much more stubborn than his older brother and thought it was fun to go #1 in the potty, but not #2. =) But he is finally there, knock on wood!

Soccer

 Camp played soccer up into November. He LOVES SOCCER. He continued to score every game (some games, he scored multiple times!) It was so great to see him learn teamwork, though. By the end of the season, he had learned to set up plays to pass to others so that they could score. I attribute a lot of this to the coaches that helped the boys. He had some great coaches!

 Below is Camp and his buddy Caughran.  They were a two-some this whole season. Both of them are the oldest on their teams (September birthdays - I think they were the only 5 year olds on the team). So needless to say, they were the offensive threats together at the beginning of the season. =)

 Camps favorite part of the last game was the trophy! You should hear camp say trophy. It's hilarious - he says it with a nasal-y voice and it cracks me up everytime! His coach is AWESOME. Coach did really neat drills with them every week at practice. He always had his cleats and shin guards on as well!

 I have to give props to Daddy Chad on these pictures! I had to leave early =( to go work a wedding, so I left him with STRICT instructions to take pictures. I think he held up his end of the bargain, don't you?!

Thankful...

We had a blessed Thanksgiving this year. It was our first without my grandmother, Mama Caro, whom we lost December 29th, 2009. We took several pictures last Thanksgiving (with her in them) and we are so glad that we have those! 

This year was a crazy one indeed. I won't go into every single thing that we went through this year (or watched our family members go through), but needless to say, my sister and I made a lot of effort to get pictures this holiday season!

Everyone is annoyed while we are doing it, but in the long run, we are happy we took them! 

My dad had a tough year this year, so we made sure to get some good pictures with him =)

 Nash wouldn't cooperate in the pics with Lele and Papaw

 Just the four of us... my Mom (Lele), me, sister Caroline, my Daddy (Larry).

 The original 3 girls.

 me and my daddy

 Crazy MS weather. Playing football with no shirts on b/c it was HOT!

My babies.

 Cousins!

 Camp had his Thanksgiving party at school the week before. He LOVED dressing like an indian!

How cute is his little shirt?! You can't see it, but it has his handprint made into a little boy indian's face! LOVE IT

 Before anyone accuses me of leaving Nash out... his little school didn't have a Thanksgiving feast party. They had a 'Fall party' at Halloween. =)
 For some reason, I didn't take any pictures when we were with Chad's family? We didn't get together as a crew until Saturday - and we watched the Egg Bowl as a family divided, so maybe I was a little stressed?! Ha! (Thank goodness my team won! wink wink, nudge nudge ;)

A new year, a new blog!

After FIVE years of posting on my old blog, all of the sudden, it was FULL! I had slowed down blogging ever since I went private when we opened our business, but I realized how much I missed it! I am somewhat out of the facebook world these days (and I like it that way!), so I want to get back to blogging. However, I didn't want to PAY to be able to continue that blog. SOOO I started a new one.  I have LOVED being able to go back and look at my boys grow - and I really feel like last year got the shaft. 

 So here's to a new year with a new blog! 

 Little brother Nash is 3...

 and big brother Camp is 5.

I am going to try my best to go back a bit and update pictures that I never was able to upload on the other blog. I will probably try to date them correctly, so this post may change a bit at a later date! =)