Wordless Wednesday

merry christmas

candlelight christmas eve service. food and fun with family. baby santa. fire in fireplace. presents under the tree. kids sleeping until 8. watching the excitement in their little faces as they unwrapped their gifts. cozy new robe and slippers. yummy brunch. homemade cinnamon rolls. chase's first christmas. opening and playing with new toys. staying in pj's all day. napping. movie watching. game playing. kids cooperating for pictures. baby snuggles. family time. celebrating the birth of our savior. what a wonderful christmas day.

Gaylord 2010

We also love to go to the Gaylord Hotel every year with Becky, Kasey & Baylee. We always have fun looking at all of the beautiful decorations and takings lots of pictures! Here are a few of my favorites...

Cookie Baking Day!

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is baking cookies with my mom. Well the offical tradition is that Jenn is with us too but this year we had a hard time getting everyone together. Luckily we had two cute little helpers! We all enjoyed our day together and our yummy cookies!

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas...

We've been having fun getting ready for Christmas this year! I have such wonderful memories of Christmas traditions from my childhood. I love creating these precious memories with my kids!

Here are some things we've done so far!

We decorated our house and our tree...

Decorated a gingerbread house (and then demolished & ate it!)

Had a Starbucks/Shopping date!

Visited with Santa!

Wrote and mailed letters to Santa!

And have enjoyed lots of cozy days at home watching Christmas movies by the fire, drinking hot chocolate and just hanging out together!

I LOVE this time of year!

Ballet Class

Sarah has enjoyed taking ballet class at her preschool this year. She loves to dance, twirl and wear a tutu so this has been perfect for her! Last week the parents were invited to stay and see what the kids have been learning. It was so cute to see the little ballerinas! Sarah did a great job!

Princess Party

My mom & I had so much fun taking Sarah to a Princess Party last weekend! We needed a girls day! They fixed her hair, put some sparkly make-up on her, and painted her nails. (so cute!) She got to meet a real princess and prince!

We had "princess pizza & cupcakes" for lunch! (shhh...don't tell Chase he went to a girl party!)

I love doing girly things and I'm so thankful to have my sweet girl to do them with! She is so much fun! I love our girl time and I think she does too! I hope that never changes!

One Month!

Chase is one month old! What a wonderful, busy first month we've had with him! Highlights & stats of month one~
~ Meeting lots of friends and family
~ Spent lots of time with Grandma and got to meet Grams and Mamaw
~ Celebrating his first Thanksgiving
~ Enjoying cozy days at home with the family
~ Weight 8 pounds, Length 21"
~ Already outgrowing some newborn size clothes
~ Sleeping about 3 hours between feedings at night
~ Starting to lift head and look around
~ Having more awake time during the day, really checking things out!
~ Went to church for the first time
~ He is so sweet! We love him so much!

3 Weeks

Chase is three weeks old! This week Chase:
~ Celebrated his first Thanksgiving.
~ Got to meet Grams, Aunt Juile, Jamie, Joey and two of
my best friends Jara and Misty.
~ Had a lazy weekend at home with the family.
~ Had a check-up and now weighs 8 pounds and is 21" long.
~ Got to take his first "real" bath!

We love our sweet boy!

Happy Thanksgiving

Chase's first Thanksgiving!

We're so thankful that our sweet, healthy baby boy is here! I wasn't actually due until the day after Thanksgiving!
We had planned to go to my parent's house for Thanksgiving dinner but we didn't end up getting to go because Adam got sick. Jacob made a last minute run to the grocery store and made us this amazing dinner! I couldn't believe he was able to put this whole thing together on such short notice and without any help from me! (I would have helped but he wanted to do it!)

We had a fire going in the fireplace, watched Christmas movies and worked puzzles. It turned out to be a really nice and relaxing day at home.

The next day Adam was better so we went to my parents house to visit & eat turkey left overs! This was the first year that I didn't shop at all the day after Thanksgiving! We had a nice time visiting with everyone.

I'm so thankful that Grams got to spend some time with Chase! I love Grams!

Turkey Shirts!

My mom made the kids these cute matching turkey shirts!

I'm so thankful for these little cuties!

Thankful

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, his love endures forever. Psalm 118:1

Today the kids and I spent the day reading Thanksgiving books, doing Thanksgiving crafts and learning the verse above.

I feel so thankful this Thanksgiving. God has blessed us so much! I'm SO thankful for our sweet little family. I love being a wife and mom so much~ thankful doesn't even begin to describe it! I love spending my days with these little people that God has entrusted me with. I love that my husband works so hard for our family and lets me be at home with our babies. I appreciate how much he does around the house and to help me out. He's amazing! I'm thankful for my wonderful friends who are always there for me. I'm thankful for our new house and our life here. I'm thankful that we've found a new church that we can call home. I'm thankful for our newest little tiny blessing, baby Chase and for how sweet the other two have been with him. 2010 has been quite a year for our family and I couldn't let this Thanksgiving go by without taking some time to reflect and thank God for all he has done for us!

2 Weeks Old

Sweet little Chase is two weeks old. He had a busy week again! We visited with lots of family. My mom was here for a few days, my brother came over to see us one day. On Sunday we got together with Jacob's family for lunch and playing games. Yesterday we spent the day at my moms with my grandma, aunt and cousins who are in town for Thanksgiving. My friends Jara & Misty stopped by with their kids too. It was fun showing him off to everyone! He's just a little baby doll. He's sweet and happy and snuggly. I love to just sit around and hold him. It's a little bit of a challenge with my two other little ones but we are getting it figured out!

One Week Old!

Chase was one week old on Tuesday. His first week at home was busy! We came home on Thursday. Adam & Sarah gave Chase a tour of the house. It was super cute. Adam showed him some Star Wars toys (boy stuff!). Friday we had a lazy, snuggly day. Saturday we took him for a routine weight check and jaundice check. (Our hospital has everyone do this two days after they leave the hospital). His number for jaundice came back way too high. We ended up having to take him for blood work and then found out that he needed photo light therapy. He had to be in a little bed that looked like a tanning bed. We could only take him out long enough to feed him then he had to go right back in it. It was so sad! Thankfully we are finished with all of that. We took him back to the doctor on Monday and he was able to come off of the lights. Tuesday my mom came to stay with us for a few days. She totally spoiled us! It was so nice having her here! What a busy week! I'm hoping for more of the lazy, snuggly days this next week. I guess we'll wait and see what week 2 brings!

IT'S A BOY!!!!

We are SO excited about the newest little member of our family! Chase Ryan was born last Tuesday & he is just perfect! We are so happy to have another little boy to love. God is so good!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was lots of fun this year. The kids are at such fun ages for dressing up and trick-or-treating! Last night we went to a carnival with my parents and Jenn & Sam. Today we carved a pumpkin and went trick-or-treating!

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Patch 2010!

Y'all know I LOVE our anual trip to the Pumpkin Patch! It's one of my favorite Fall traditions! We had a fun day but we really missed Grandma! Here are my favorite pictures from the day. My sweet little pumpkins are getting so big! Being silly!

My handsome boy!

I love this kid!

My beautiful girl!

Love this little sweetie!

House Tour!

My out-of-town family has been asking to see pictures of our house. Here they are! Front of the house... We love the porch and balcony. We spend a ton of time outside. The kids love to ride their bikes and scooters up and down the street. At the end of our street, there is a park just around the corner. We love living here!






Entry way, decorated for Fall!

Office/School Room...




A few pics of the kitchen...

You can't tell by the first picture but the living room is really bright. It has high ceilings and lots of windows. It's really pretty but the picture didn't come out well. Our colors are brown and lime green!

Fireplace & mantle, decorated for Fall! We also have a storm door which is open most of the time to let more light in. The top half has a screen so we can use it as a screen door when it's nice outside!