Snow Fun!

We have had a fun couple of days playing in the snow! We rarely EVER get any snow…especially not enough to play in! And it’s usually in and out very fast. This time, it’s lasted a few days! If you know me you know I can not STAND cold weather. I don’t like snow, I’m a summer, warm girl FOR SURE! But, who wouldn’t have fun playing with their babies in the snow?! I did!

It just so happened to fall on Josh’s off days this time! SO YAY for THAT! Brooks’ first snow!! He thought it was fun! We only had him out there for about 2 minutes. It was kind of mass chaos around here because the weather prediction was a little off. We were only supposed to get a dusting and then things quickly changed and people were left scrambling to get home! So thankful that we closed our office when we did and we were able to all make it home safely! Us southerners don’t know how to drive in this type of weather since we never have it!

I should note that Griffin is missing from these pictures because I left my camera at the office and my phone sometimes randomly deletes pictures. Boo.

Bring on the flip flop weather!

Peyton’s Paintball Party!

Paintball party = awesome!

We had Peyton’s birthday party over the weekend at Paintball is Good! Peyton and Griffin are still talking about it! I’m counting it a success! They had tons of fun playing and it was fun to watch! Even the kids that were too small to play had a blast playing and bursting extra paintballs!

Safety Meeting…First hit… Ummm…seriously? LOVE these two! I don’t have any pictures to put on here of them actually playing. You wouldn’t be able to see very well. The kids broke off into two teams and battled each other.  They had one field that had a big castle with several forts around it, they had another field with these blow up things to hide behind, they had another field that had a revene…put it this way, it was 40 acres of paintball fun! We will be back!Sweet little niece! She loves cake! Typical!

Of course we forgot to get a picture with the birthday boy so we had to settle for a car pic! Please note my passed out little baby AND the poop baggy in between us! haha!  That, my friends, is the 27th birthday party I have thrown for my children! On to 28…

Brooks – 9 Months!

Sweet little dude, you are 9 MONTHS OLD! Here’s a little of what you’ve been up to!

-You seriously give the BEST sugar on the planet! And only certain people get it!

-You can crawl when you want to! You mostly still just roll where ever you want to go! I have seen you army crawl a few times!

-You can go from tummy to sitting up by yourself. It’s pretty funny, you do a back up crawl and push yourself up!

-You take baths in the big bathtub now! No more baby tub.

-You are still in a size 3 diaper.

-You wear mostly size 9-12 month clothes.

-You are still eating great! Still no teeth which is great for me! I’ve started giving you some table food, my chicken-n-dumplings are your FAV so far! You love puffs and cheerio’s and have mastered using your first finger and thumb to pick them up!

-We went to your 9 month check up today. You weigh 19 pounds 11 ounces and are 28 inches tall.

Oh my word, your lips!

-You figured out how much fun it is to destroy the paper at the doctor’s office!    Cutest belly EVER!

Ok, mommy, photo shoot’s over! Time to eat the sticker!

You had a nasty cold this week, hence the snot in all of your pictures! haha! Bless.

LOVE you so much B!

Mommy

Happy Birthday Peyton!

Peyton is TEN years old today! I don’t even know how this happened! Time flies when your kids are young, no joke! He is getting SO big! He’s only about a 1/2 inch shorter than me…we definitely see eye to eye! He’s practically grown!

His party is not until Saturday but it’s going to be SUPER FUN! Boys + Paintball = right up their alley! Can’t wait!

Happy Happy Birthday PTC!!!! We love you!!!

Smarties!

Being a parent is TOUGH! Sometimes I think to myself,”Oh Lord, I hope I’m not screwing them up!” haha! Sometimes I get a swift kick in the rear that tells me that we ARE doing something right! One of those moments came last week when Josh and I got a facebook message from Peyton’s teacher and she said, “What does it say about your parenting skills when all three of your babies receive student of the month in the same month?? congrats!!!”

Well apparently we’re fabulous! ;)

Once every 9 weeks our school has Leadership Night. The kids are all rewarded for all of their hard work. Several awards are handed out for different things(honor roll, etc.), it’s really an awesome way to encourage the children. We had Leadership Night this past Monday and our babies racked up! So proud of them and proud to know that…guess what? I don’t suck as a Mom after all! ;) Griffin never keeps his ribbons on. Guess he’s too cool for that!

And this little guy…he never made a peep the entire night! Best baby!

Christmas!

Well, yes we are 10 days into the new year and I am just now getting around to posting Christmas pictures! I’m a busy lady!

Christmas was fun this year, as it always is. It seemed to pass by very quickly this year. Too quick for me really!

We started out Christmas this year at Josh’s parents the weekend before Christmas! You mean that’s for me? LOVE this picture! Aunt April for the win! Christmas eve it was off to Big Mama’s and then Maw Maw’s! (Put B in is PJ’s because I knew he would be sleeping when we got home!) Christmas morning! Reece helping Brooks check out his loot from Santa! I love these babies so much! Seriously, how’d I get so blessed? Half of my family came over Christmas morning… Cason slept through it! Then Christmas night we went to Papa and Gigi’s!  Whew! Such a whirlwind but fun time!

Off to School

Today my sweet little blue eyed love bug started school. Boo. This has been the plan since before he was born, HOWEVER, I never imagined he would be SUCH a good EASY baby or we wouldn’t be starting yet. I say that but also he is starting to crawl and be more mobile so really it’s not fair to him for him to be at work with me. I can’t pay him the attention he needs and get my work done. He’s only been there an hour today and I miss him like CRAZY. I know he’s in good hands. He’s at the same school the other three went to. The teachers have been anxiously and patiently waiting on him! I know he will be LOVED on like crazy!

He is still nursing and I am pretty darned determined to keep it up until he turns a year old so he’s only going a few hours a day right now. I realize that I am VERY blessed for him to be able to come to work with me at all! And he’s been at work with me almost 9 months now!

Here he is this morning! Man, I love that little stinker!