Why we are Happy Today...

1. It's Friday
2. Our sweet friends are welcoming a sweet baby girl today!
3. Almost October and time to put pumpkins and mums out
4. Chicken Salad from our favorite place

AND...

5. GIGI's COMING

AND

6. Is this not the cutest little thing you have EVER seen??

Pop, Nanny, and Fishies!

Pop and Nana (or nanny as Jack says) kept the boys over the weekend. It was really nice to have a break and get two nights out with J and a day at the spa and shopping AND a whole weekend without working!


They were brave and took them to the aquarium in the ATL and kept them for 2 nights! Jack of course had more fun than being home and let us know it and Henry, well other than being a total mommy's boy he had fun too!


We are lucky to have such good babysitters!!!

29 Again!

I decided that I am going to stay 29 forever!! (Only kidding) but my 20's have been so wonderful, so I really hated to leave them behind! I married the greatest man in my 20's, gave birth to TWO beautifully healthy baby boys, bought my 1st and 2nd houses, survived putting J through law school all while working 3 jobs and still being poor and thinking that $20 was an expensive night out! HA! and so much more. So I guess 30's you have a lot to live up too!!


We had a great birthday weekend complete with a day at the spa, a copy of my blog the 1st year bound, a FAB new bag, a fun surprise-ish party with great friends, and being called my sister's mother...HELLO 30!!

What can I say, I am one lucky girl!!!


With lots of wonderful friends and family too!

Cooking Dinner

We have a a busy few days and we did lots and lots of Birthday partying and I have lots of pictures to put up! J gave me one of the sweetest gifts for my birthday and he had the 1st year of my blog bound. After watching Jack spend about 45 minutes looking at it it made me what to blog more. Not for anyone else, but us so that I have all these wonderful memories to look at and remember my boys, they grow up WAY to fast!

I LOVE birthdays. My mom and dad always made then extra special for us growing up and I have trid to do the same for Jack and will for H too. So after we put the boys to bed Wednesday night J and I got Jack's gifts all ready for him to see when he woke up Thursday morning. We had his favorite doughnuts for breakfast and had a fun dinner Thursday night with Aunt Em and Uncle Pookie complete with cookie cake! YUMMM!!!!

Jack is so obsessed with cooking dinner because J does and he always plays kitchen at school and at the science center, so we thought it would be the perfect gift and something both boys would eventually enjoy. (the shopping cart was a freebie from Pampers points!)

How 3 years have flown by!

Three years ago you turned my world upside down and made my heart happier than it has ever been! I can not believe how quickly 3 years have passed! You are one fiery strong willed little boy who loves life more than anyone I have ever seen.

This year you have learned to talk more than I ever thought possible! And boy are you smart and witty just like your daddy! HA! You love movies, sweets, Dr. Pepper, and chick-fil-a. We play dinosaurs, trains, cook dinner, and race cars daily. You LOVE to put things in a line and everything has its place, unless of course you are trying to see how big of a mess you can make of the playroom just to aggravate me!

You LOVE to sing and dance and you are currently obsessed with the Price Tag song, and always think I should be able to make it magically appear on the radio as soon as we get into the car. You love school, Aunt Emmy's pink ipod, talking on the phone, and your daddy more than anything. You and Daddy have to read Gobble, Gobble, Crash every night before bed and you read your lines on Que every time. Barney, the very hungry caterpillar, 4 snuggles, and your special blanket get to sleep with you every night!

You are a good big brother and love Henry, sometimes too much!

I love how full of life you are and how you make every minute of every day exciting!

You are my brown eyed love and I would not trade a single thing for the last 3 years!

LOVE YOU TOOTLEBUG!!!!

School Partying

Today was Jack's special day at school and they celebrated his birthday since he does not go on Thursdays to school! He opted for his special snack to be chicken minis and apple juice instead of cupcakes or cookies, totally fine with me since all I had to do was call it in, pick it up, and delivered it to school before morning snack!

He got to be line leader, bring a special book from home to read, wear the birthday crown, and get the special Happy Birthday song this morning in front of everyone!

I think he had a great day, AND I can not wait to give him his presents tomorrow morning, sing to him, and have a lunch date with his best buddy!

Camera Phone Unload

Of course now that football is in full swing, we spend lots of time in front of the TV on the weekends. The good news for me is that usually means J cooks some yummy food and I get to work for a solid day, and lately I have needed it.

This weekend was not much different, but we did get to have dinner Saturday night with Aunt Shan, Colby, Sydney and Caden, and that made my weekend! I got a cute new attachment for my Happy Everything platter that I love and we all got to spend some fun time together!

Can you tell Henry likes limes???

And, this my friends is an almost 3 year old who dressed himself AND proof that we do own more than just smocked clothing! I did let him go to Hobby Lobby and the post office with Aunt Emmy and I dressed like this! This kid LOVES some hats!

Pirate Party Post 2

There were WAY to many pictures to post them all at once and for those of you who asked about the signs...our wonderful Anna made them! Anna helps me with monogramming, babysits the boys, and can do anything! WE LOVE HER!!!






The boys (and 2 girls) spent most of their time playing in the bouncy house and the rest of the time eating or knocking each other with the big blow up blowing pins!

As Promised: Pirate Party Post 1

Jack had a great 3rd birthday party! We decided on a pirate theme a few months ago and debated on what to do for awhile, and after talking to my sweet friend Beth during a play date one day we decided we would tag team it, since Jack and Elliott are only 3 weeks apart and being that they are welcoming a new baby girl right around Elliott's birthday she needed to plan it early and quickly! We decided easy was the way to go with a bunch of wild boys and we rented the church gym, set up a bouncy house, games, pizza and cake, and let them go. They all had a blast and Jack even finished the evening in true boy form with a big black eye! I mean what else is a plastic bat for besides a cute pirate ship pinata??

Here is a start at the pictures with more tomorrow.

Just a Peek

We survived last week, had a sucessful pirate party for an almost 3 year old, scored some good deals at the consignment sale making it worth two nights of staying out late and not having time to even eat all day!

Henry decided over night to really start crawling. He was army crawling, but oh no we are full out crawl now. I guess we will be mounting new baby gates this weekend! I am really hoping he learns to do the stairs as quickly as Jack did. It makes life MUCH easier!

I have video of H crawling, TONS of party pics, and more video of H laughing to show you when I have some time. And for Gigi and Gran to tide you over until I post the other pics....