All in the Family

Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, there, I think we're all caught up!

We had some visitors staying with us for a few days this past week. My sister Tara any my niece Kamri crashed at our house for a few nights because their pipes were frozen at their house. Harrison and Kamri are only 2 months apart, they are in the same class at daycare and they love playing together. Aren't these 2 little blondies adorable, looking a little sleepy in this picture!

We made a trip to Alma on Saturday to see Mom Freda, HI MOM! She took a tumble the other night and got pretty banged up and Harrison had a bruise on his forehead also, see any resemblance?

Meet Sally, this is the "neigh" that Santa, AKA Nana, brought Harrison for Christmas, actually all of the boys have had fun riding her...there's just no nice way to say that, the boys are the ones that decided she was a girl.And then you've got the "Blues Brothers", Harrison and Gray posing for a random picture on Sunday. Harrison insisted on facing this way...couldn't face the bathroom, had to have it as the background. Nice.

So last night was the first of Jackson's basketball games, he's playing Upward Bound Basketball. Chad is coaching the team. I took lots of pictures but apparntly I need to learn how to take pictures again because they all look like this: Jackson is the hologram in the middle about to shoot the ball. Nice action shot mom!

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Hey There Punkin' !

The boys had a great time picking out pumpkins at our churchs' pumkin patch! This was the first year the boys really wanted to get in there and help with cleaning out the pumpkins...Jackson jumped right in and after using the spoon for a few minutes stuck his hand right in, he loved the squishy feeling of the guts! Gray was a little more hesitant but finally gave in; he wasn't so fond of it though and went back to the spoon! Harrison wanted to help with his own pumpkin but didn't really care for the feel of it either and soon went back to his spoon. Here are a few pictures from out night.

And this picture has absolutely nothing to do with anything but isn't it adorable!!! It's Harrison's first "daycare" picture, I thought it was so cute..the quality is much better, this is a picture of the picture!

I'm BAAAAACK!

Well, sort of. The (big) boys are staying the night at their Gigi's house and Harrison is already down so I have a little free time! YAY! So it's been 2 months now and I think we are about to get settled. My work is just starting to get crazy. Tomorrow is Saturday and that's where I'll be spending my day. Everyone is really loving being home again, but we all miss our NWA friends! Last weekend we got to see alot of family at my mamaw's birthday celebration, it's great being close enough that we don't have to rush and get back home quickly. Big boys are playing soccer and really loving it. This is Gray's first year but you would never know it, regardless of his size that kid is good! Hopefully the more he plays the better he'll get. Gray and Harrison are both loving their daycare. Gray got to take a field trip this week to Barnyard Friends and had lots of fun holding baby goats and riding a horse! Every week he gets to go to gymnastics and a "jump zone" type place with school, he's loving that! Jackson loves being in kindergarten, today was grandparents day so Nana and Pops got to eat lunch with him at school, he really enjoyed that. He gets to take his first field trip next week to a pumpkin patch! We have great neighbors, lots of people we know in the neighborhood and a good family friend right next door, the fact that she has a trampoline and 2 kids for the boys to play with doesn't hurt either! :) Chad is enjoying his work, loves being outside all day and not having to work on the weekends! Hope everyone is doing well, I'll try to keep the blog updated from now on...we'll see!

Grayson with Chad's cousin Skylar

First ATU Football game, family fun before the game with inflatable slides,

jump houses and face painting!

Jackson and Gray pose after sliding.

Rub-a-dub-dub 3 boys in a tub!

This is right after Gray scored his first goal! Big brother there to give him a high 5!

And then the smile when he realizes everyone is cheering for him!

Lot's going on this week. Hopefully I'll have time to update next week! In the meantime, here are some more pictures from our weekend at the lake. Thanks Monica!

Sittin' on the dock of the bay...

Loving Brooks' expression, it looks like a "Gray look"!

This week's MckLinky Blog Hop is Favorite Kid Photo. Each of the boys have their own "signature" face that they do when we're making pictures. Jackson is more serious and gives a good smile or tries to pose. Gray tends to crinkle up his nose with either a smile or a "mean face". Harrison goes all out and smiles to his hearts content and gives the biggest CHEESE smiles! Here are just a few of my favorites!





Can't wait to see YOUR favorite kid photos!

Weekend at the Lake

It was a long time coming and took a little rescheduling but we finally got together with friends after a 5 year hiatus! Back in the day, we started a little thing called the Redneck Reunion. There were about 10-12 couples and every year we would get together with friends from high school for a weekend, usually around Labor Day. Our friends from Monticello have a house with lots of land and plenty of room for lots of people and fun, it used to be all about who was bringing the beer, the games and the food. The last time we all got together a few of us were pregnant with our first little ones...now, 5 years later, we finally found time to get together again. 6 couples, 14 kids aged 6 and under...only 3 girls! We rented a condo in Hot Springs right on Lake Hamilton. Our friend Mandy's parents own one so we rented the one a few doors down. We all showed up on Friday afternoon and got out of town late Sunday. All of the kids had a blast! We had 2 boats to use plus the pool at the condo. If we weren't in the water then we were in front of the condo playing baseball or a number of other games involving balls of all sizes! The boys got to see kids they haven't seen in a while and even got to meet some new friends that they had never met before. It was a nice weekend of late nights and early mornings. Jackson and Gray both got to go tubing for the first time. Jackson loved it, I think he would have stayed on all day if we would have let him. Gray rode once with Chad but didn't want to go again after that. Harrison had his first boat ride also. It started off pretty rough, he did NOT want to be on the boat, but once we got going he calmed down and actually liked it. We had good food all weekend but I don't feel to guilty...the condo's were 2 story and the pool & boat dock were also down a steep flight of stairs so we were all feeling the burn by yesterday afternoon! Our last meal together we decided to take the boat down to a restaurant on the lake. As we were finishing up with our meals the storm clouds started rolling in and so did the rain! All the guys jumped in the boats and made it back to tie the boats up and get them covered up, just to turn around and jump in their vehicles to drive down to the restaurant and pick us all up! It was a long 45 minutes waiting for them to get back, us having to watch all the kids in the lobby of the restaurant. It was a good place to take all the kids though, we got to eat on the deck overlooking the lake. The boys had a ball standing at the rail looking over, there were TONS of turtles and fish coming up to check out what the kids were throwing over for them to eat! Even a few ducks showed up! It eventually stopped raining Sunday but by then it was time for us to head home. We dropped Harrison off at Gigi's house for his first extended stay without mommy and daddy. He made it thru last night just fine so we'll see how the rest of the week goes. I'm posting a few pics here but I'm still waiting on some from the water...my battery died soon after getting on the boat so I had to borrow a camera! Typical!

Jackson swimming in the pool
Harrison and Pax

Grayson & Harrison

Chris & Saylor; Josh pulling Jackson, Brooks & Jack on the air mattress; Chad, Gray and Silas stepping out in the back.