Thursday, December 5, 2013

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I really do love this time of year!  But you know who loves it even more…my husband!!  He has had so much fun decorating for Christmas this year in our new house.  And every night this week we have sat in the living room in the evening enjoying the smell of our tree and listening to Christmas music while hanging out as a family.  It's been great!  I wanted to share our Christmas spirit with our friends and family. :)  Of course I'm also including a few pictures of the kids from the past few days!

Our beautiful tree!!  Hubby did a good job. :)

Yay for decorating!!
 This is Taylor's tree in her room.
 This is Bryant's tree!  He has sports ornaments and some ornaments he made!
He LOVES it!
 Our Mantel!
 Our little family of four!
 Sweet Taylor's tiny feet!
 Bryant has some high arches in his feet just like his momma!
Bryant & Taylor's Nativity Set
 Our Nativity Set
Sweet girl trying to play tennis already. :)
 He is always wearing his helmet.  It's definitely his favorite thing!
 Bryant teaching Taylor how to color…of course she just wanted to eat the crayons.
LOVE this girl!

Until next time…

Heather

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Thanksgiving and 7 Months Old with two teeth, army crawling, ear infections and more!

We have had a really busy past week and a half!  Some of it good…some of it not.  Last Monday afternoon Bryant started getting sick.  Poor kid had a stomach bug, and it was not pretty.  He started feeling some better by Wednesday, so we went ahead and left Wednesday evening to go down to Opelika for Thanksgiving.  I am glad we did, because I started feeling horrible during the night Wednesday night.  I believe I had what Bryant had…with a touch of something else.  Sadly all week Taylor had been teething and not feeling well.  Finally I ended up at the doctor with her down in Opelika on Friday, and she had an ear infection. :(  Fun Times!  On a seriously fun note, once I was feeling better I had a blast hanging out with my family for Thanksgiving.  My sister Hillary and her husband and baby were in from Colorado.  Bryant had so much fun with everyone!  And Josh had fun too because he got to go to the Iron Bowl game.  We came home on Sunday and began decorating for Christmas…which is always fun!  Also, Josh decided he wanted to do the Elf on the Shelf with Bryant this year.  So our elf has arrived.  Bryant named him Buddy.  I'm thinking he is mainly just going to show up in different places, I doubt he will cause too much havoc while here…mainly cause this momma don't want to clean up any mess! ;)  A few other newsy stuff with Taylor: she turned 7 months old on Sunday!!  And she now has TWO teeth!  They are the cutest little teeth, and she worked so hard for them! ;)  She is also getting much better with her crawling/scooting.  Unfortunately Bryant is not a big fan of this because now she crawls over to wherever he is playing and tries to take his toys.  And so it begins… ;)  We're having to work on the sharing with Taylor idea.  I guess that's really about all.  I only have a handful of pictures from Thanksgiving since I wasn't feeling very good. :(  And then a few other pictures from the past week or so!

 Being a cutie with mommy while daddy is out of town hunting!
 I don't know why he continues to do this...
 He wanted to take my picture.  He kept telling me "Smile" and "Look at me, look at me"  Ha!
Her first time crawling into the kitchen to see me. :)
Taylor and Wells seeing each other for the first time in 2 1/2 months!
 She found him very interesting.
 Playing with each other on Thanksgiving!
 Poor Bryant. :(
 Our babies on the Tiger at Tigertown.
 Our attempt at getting a picture of all three of them…Bryant didn't want to!
He's a lone rider! ;)
 The cutest Ms. Claus ever!

Santa came to put the lights on our tree.
 Bryant loved helping to decorate the tree.
 Precious boy!
 He was so happy.
 Buddy the Elf's first landing was by the fireplace!
 The next day he was playing the piano…Bryant is really loving Buddy the Elf.  It's super cute!
Look at her TWO teeth!!!

Until next time…

Heather

Friday, November 22, 2013

AU-GA Game and McWane Center Trip!

We have had a good week.  This past Saturday we drove down to Auburn for the Auburn-Georgia game.  We tailgated with our friends Brandon & Emily (Luke & Ella) and then Josh went to the game with his friend Tommy…they are both Georgia fans and were sitting in the Georgia section.  It was definitely a great game to be at!  Bryant had a blast going nonstop from about 10:00 in the morning until 8:00 that night!  By the time we left I was absolutely exhausted.  Please note when you are looking at the pictures…we were not rooting for Auburn at this game.  The only reason Bryant has on an Auburn sweatshirt is because he soaked his shirt with water before it was even lunchtime.  So of course Emily loved getting to let us borrow Luke's sweatshirt.  ;)  Moving on, this past Wednesday we went to the McWane center with some friends.  Everyone had a lot of fun.  They even got to see and touch live reptiles.  And the exhibit on the top floor right now is trains.  So they got to ride a train and look at all the cool train models.  Bryant thought this was awesome.  He is really into trains now…in fact if you ask him what santa is bringing him he will tell you very excitedly, trains and train tracks!  He's such a cutie. :)  Last night some friends came over to eat pizza and watch the movie Elf.  The kids actually watched some of it.  The best part was the mailroom scene when Buddy the Elf dances.  The kids danced with him.  It was hysterical!  We had to rewind that part about 5 times!  I have a video of it, but am having trouble uploading…oh well.  You'll just have to take my word for it. :)  Lastly, Taylor is starting to scooch forward.  She is not crawling on all fours yet, but she can definitely move forward by scooching and get whatever she wants.  I doubt it will be long now until she's on all fours crawling!  Well, that's about all for us, below are lots of pictures, including Taylor's 29 week picture.

 Tailgating fun!
 Eating some cake!
 Tailgating wore her out!
 Get him Ella!!
 Bryant is so tall!
 She was so excited…until she realized she wasn't getting any. :)
 Sweet boys
 So pretty
 Practicing her crawling stance!
 She loves her some avocado!
 Having fun at the McWane Center.
 Water table
 Bryant was reaching to touch the big lizard.
Trains are so cool.
Riding the train.
 "I don't want the stingray to get me!"
 I have no idea what was so funny...
 Fishies!
 Friends!
 Movie time!
 I LOVE Elf, and therefore I plan to force my children to like it too! ;)
 The adults yummy popcorn. :)
29 Weeks Old!

Until next time…

Heather