Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Snow 2008
We got our first snow that amounted to anything on Thursday. The last time I can remember a snow like this was about 3 years ago. Cooper was to little to really enjoy himself in the snow, but this time was different. The look on his face when he got home from daycare was full of excitement and joy. It took me back to my childhood when I used to get so excited about snow. As adults we seem to not get excited the way we used to as kids, even though we should. Cooper and I got all bundled up and set out to make a snowman. Cooper explored the yard a while making snowballs and throwing them at me (he thought that was so funny). Once I started making the snowman Cooper wanted me to stop because I was taking all the snow he said. Once I convinced him there was plenty of snow to go around, we built our snowman. We had such a good time playing in the snow and making our snowman.


Our finished snowman

Cooper sitting on a big snow ball

Cooper eating snow for the first time

Bashy plaing in the snow

Cooper showing me his snow plow truck



Thursday, December 4, 2008


I know it has been a while since we posted anything, so I thought I would post a picture of Cooper and Emme at the Opryland Hotel this past weekend.


Tuesday, November 18, 2008

It has been a while!!!

Sorry it has been so long since anything has been posted. Theresa went back to work on November 3rd and it has taken some time for us all to adjust to that. Theresa wanted me to post some photos and she said she would try to do better about posting more often. Take care and enjoy the pictures.Our Sweet baby girl in her Halloween PJ's!!



The cutest little Pirate I know



Butterfly Princess Emme

Gimme some candy!!!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

New Favorite Toy

Say Hello to my little friends! Emerson has discovered her feet, and she loves them. She tries so hard to get them in her mouth every time I'm changing her diaper or if she playing on the floor. I remembered that I had these little sock pals from when Cooper was a baby, so I got them out and she loved them. Cooper never got to play with them because his feet were always too big and fat. Imagine that?! Hard to believe that these days. Anyway, she really loves playing with her feet, and eventually got one of the sock friends off. Who knew I wouldn't have to spend any money to entertain her. She just needed to find her feet.

Hi Mr. Hippo. This outfit wasn't pink at all, so I thought she definitely needed a bow. The picture definitely makes the colors seem more boyish. They were turquoise and lime green, very gender neutral. I'm sure if we were out in public people would probably call her a boy. Note to self, don't wear this outfit out in public. The pants have a very cute sweat jacket with club princess on it. Very much girl!




I will get you off Mr. Hippo!




Aha! I did! I did! Mission accomplished!

Rollin'

Emme has been rolling over from her tummy to her back since about 2 months, but she hasn't been quite able to master rolling from her back to her tummy until the past few weeks. I captured it on video last night, and Brooks was actually able to get my video to post here on blogger. I hope you all enjoy. She brings so much joy to our lives, as I'm sure you will see. I tried to make the picture of the video smaller to see if that would help with the size, so pardon me if it appears small. I'm going to make to post some other pictures I have too tonight. We have another busy weekend ahead of us. We have two birthday parties and Uncle Drew and his friend are coming to visit us tomorrow night. We are very excited to have them.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Busy Weekend

Cooper had a really good time at Eva's 4th birthday party. He got to paint pumpkins and play. He learned when you mixed all of the colors together, they make black! Interesting, huh?
After Eva's birthday party on Saturday, we went down to the Pumpkin Patch like we do every year. We all had a great time. Cooper wouldn't let me take too many pictures this year. I had to settle for taking his picture playing with th Little People farm that he has at home. For some reason it's just different at the pumpkin patch. We picked up Christa's kids, and they all had a good time. Cooper said his favorite part was going through the corn maze with his Daddy, Christopher, and Quinn. See pictures below.


Haily holding Emerson. She will be 14 next Saturday.



















Sunday, October 12, 2008

Happy Birthday Grandma!!

Today was my mom's birthday (Happy Birthday Mom, your gift and card is in the mail!), and Cooper decided a while ago that he wanted her to have a Halloween birthday. He likes for everyone to have some kind of birthday. Like he was very upset that my mom didn't make my brother, his uncle J, a Kung Fu Panda cake for his 34th birthday. So I told him we would definitely make Grandma Halloween cupcakes today. It wasn't a disaster, and we actually had a great time. He had a good time. He did have to remind me to take a few deep breaths on occasion. Poor thing! He has a cold, but I promise he didn't touch his nose once. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I hope you had a wonderful day mom. Your cupcakes were delicious. Sorry no pictures of Emme, she slept through the entire ordeal. I'm sure she'll be right in the middle of things next year. We love you so much Grandma!

Cooper wearing his apron that his Gram made for his Daddy when he was a little boy. Isn't it just cute? I can't believe it's still in such good shape. He loves it.
I just made a mess with the cake mix. It's from a box. Nothing from scratch over here.
Cooper really likes the mixer. What's going on with my hair? Looks like I needed a hair net.
The finished product. Happy Birthday Grandma! We had bat and pumpkin sprinkles, but they tasted better without them. Love you. Hope you had a great day. Cooper is going to take a few to Nana's house tomorrow to share with his friends.
Cooper having a cupcake by Veronica our spook kid.

Friday, October 10, 2008

More Halloweeny!

He's trying so hard not to fall asleep! It's not working so well. Everything is all about Bat's and Pirates this year.
We've purchased our Halloween PJs! Aren't they cute?! I love fall!
His little rag doll. He can still be a bit rough. We have to remind him that she's like glass.
These jammies say it all! Love it.


These are some pictures of Halloween decorations that Cooper and I put out last night. He is so excited about Halloween. Everyday he asks me if Halloween is tomorrow, he is so funny. It was good to have Daddy and Cooper time last night.



Catching up

We had a pretty busy weekend, and my house paid for it. Brooks promised he would help me get it clean, but it didn't happen. I just hope it happens this weekend. I've been working on the laundry all week, soI'm hoping it won't take to much to get the rest of it done. Anyway, back to last weekend. Saturday started off early with the boys both getting haircuts. Poor Cooper tends to look like a Q-tip when he needs a haircut. He has really thick hair like me. He went with his Dad to sports clips and he had a really good time. We were going to Greg and Marlo's for dinner and to watch the Vandy/Auburn game while the kids played. Cooper loves playing with their daughter Eva. That's all he talked about for two days. He told the lady cutting his hair that he was going to play with Eva and that she lived just past Walmart. When she was done with his hair, she put gel in it so he would look nice for his play date. For the rest of the afternoon he told random people he was going to Eva's house after his nap. We told Greg we would have to have playdates more often because Cooper was on his best behavior because he knew he wanted to go to Eva's house. He had a great time playing with Eva. Greg had a tent up in the back yard and they pretended they were having a camp out and made smores in the fire pit. I know I had a great time being able to interact with other adults. We met their neighbors that are about our age and have a 6 month old son. It's always nice to meet other people our age with kids. They also invited us to church on Sunday, so Cooper got to see Eva again on Sunday. They are attending a new plant church in Murfreesboro that's an offspring of Franklin Christian Church. It's really small right now and they are currently meeting at a school. They had about 75 people there the Sunday before last, so it's growing. It's a lot smaller than First Baptist Smyrna that we joined in 2004 when we thought we wanted to join a BIG church. We just never seemed to find our place there. It was too big. We've been trying to find our place ever since. We know it's important that we find somewhere with a great children's program because Cooper is already starting to ask great questions. We have several places we want to visit, so hopefully we'll find our place soon.

Anyway. Now for the pictures I promised my brother. After church on Sunday we were trying to figure out what we wanted to eat for lunch. The Titans had already kicked off, and Brooks wanted some chicken wings. I'm always up for chicken, because I eat chicken about 90% of the time. He asked where I wanted to go, I never have any ideas because I'm very indecisive. We start towards home, and up on the right is Hooters. They have great chicken wings, right? Brooks asks if I want to go in and get something to go? I said i guess, because I wouldn't imagine it's the most kid friendly place. By this time we have a major dilemma, it's time for Emme to eat. She actually was due to eat during the service, but I guess she was enjoying the sermon because she was very content and I didn't bother her. If we ordered something to go, we would have to wait for the order and she would probably be screaming bloody murder any time. If that happened we would have to feed her in the car. With her acid reflux we would then have to wait another 30-45 minutes with her in an upright position for her food to settle before we could head home. By this time, Brooks would have missed much of the first half of the football game. I asked him if he just wanted to go in, because there were only about 3 cars in the parking lot. Didn't appear to be many people there at all. He agreed because we could at least feed the baby while we were waiting on our food and he could watch the game. When walked in there were only about 2 occupied tables, and all restaurants in TN are non-smoking so it was actually quite nice. Our waitress was Bianca is she was very nice. She brought Cooper a balloon and actually told us that kids eat free on Sunday, even better right?! So if you're ever looking for somewhere for the kids to eat free on Sunday, try Hooters! We were sitting next to two men at a table and I didn't think anything of it at first, but then I began to notice the way they were dressed. I always have my camera with me because I'm a mom and I blog. You never know when you might want to capture something to document. So I take out my camera to take Cooper's picture for our blog. That's when I notice the two men next to us are Amish. This just takes the cake. Not only are we sitting at Hooters in our Sunday best after church, but we're sitting next to two Amish guys. Nobody is going to believe this. My mom is going to be so proud that I took my family to Hooters for Sunday lunch. Seriously, the girls are fully clothed. You see girls in public these days wearing way less. I'm sure back in the day their attire was considered a bit provocative, but not these days. Back to the Amish men, I'm sure this has to be against their by laws or something. They will have to pay dues or something. I don't know much about their religion, but the one man was enjoying himself too much. We were honestly there for the wings, and they were not. They were both having burgers and they can get a burger anywhere in town. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but just given what little I know about their lifestyle and culture I think they were out on a joy ride or something. Can anyone shed some light on this subject? By the way, Cooper called me out on this picture. He asked why I was taking a picture of these men. I can't get anything past him anymore.
Cooper really wanted a shirt. Just because it looked like a super man shirt. Mom will be happy that we declined the tshirts. That's the least we could do.
This was the man on the left that appeared ashamed. It was the man on the right in the red that was enjoying himself way too much. Dirty old man. He needs to pay his dues and repent.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Carolina Girls...Best in the World!


We took this picture during the Carolina/Miami game last week. All I can say is The U went down! Go Tarheels!

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Pictures as promised!

Close up of Emme girl! Isn't she beautiful? I just could stare at her beautiful face for days. I love her to pieces. Happy 1/4 birthday Emerson Brooke. We love you!


Can you see those dimples? Don't be surprised if you see her on the cover of a magazine soon. People already called and I told them to talk to our People and we'd get back to them. LOL. Of course we'd donate all of the proceeds to our foundation.
If you ever want to see this girl smile, just call in her Big Brother. She loves him so much. He can always make her smile. I have to call him in often when I'm trying to capture her sweet smiles. Something about the little people. Just to narrate what was happening in this picture. I was trying to capture her smile, and Cooper was on the other couch. He decided to "walk the plank" and she thought it was so funny. Thanks Cooper.

This is a Video of my lovely wife singing her little heart out on her Birthday!!!!!

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Happy 3 months Sweet Emme Girl!

It's really hard to believe that my sweet baby girl is three months old today. She's really growing so quickly and has such a personality. I love her so much. I took her infamous photos today with her bear. I'll post those tomorrow it's late.

Until tomorrow....Goodnight!

Monday, September 29, 2008

Getting back in the saddle!

I know, I know! I haven't done a good job of keeping up with my blog. That's because I was at my mom's house for two weeks, and just didn't take the time. I've tried to get all of my pictures uploaded. Now I just have to play catch up. I just wanted to explain. Hopefully I can catch up a bit this week. I only have about a month of maternity leave left. I'm upset about that. I have Cooper and Emme this week because Nana wanted to take the week off. Today I met Brooks for a picnic at the park, and we left Cooper play. He played with Eva. She's the daughter of Greg that works with Brooks. They always have a really good time together. They managed to take care of each other amidst three school buses of middle school kids that pulled up for lunch. They were so unruly and disrespectful. I will be sending an email to the principal and Rutherford County School Board. All of the parents with kids at the park moved their children to the section of the park intended for kids ages 2-5 to give the huge kids full reign of the other side, but that didn't contain them. The teachers just let them roam while they had a great time chit chatting. Some of the other moms asked the kids politely to stay on the other side and the kids were very disrespectful and the teachers just let the kids run wild. Who takes bus loads of middle school kids to a small kids park for a field trip? It just doesn't make sense. You know it just didn't sit well with me. Lord please help Cooper or Emerson if they ever think they can disrespect an adult like that when they are in middle school.

More to come....

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Happy Hump Day!

Well I hope everyone is having a great week! I thought I would start out my blog with a few pictures. The first one is a pic of my Fiesty Girl. She was trying to kick her Daddy in the first, but at least she was smiling. There is something about him that makes her smile. Daddy's Girl!
This is her new play mat. She loves it so much. We bought it to take to NC with us, and it's been a hit ever since. She really likes looking at herself in the mirror. I guess she's a little vain. It's kind of hard to tell what she's doing from this angle. This was before she spit up all over herself.
This is just a picture of my pretty girl. We were attempting tummy time, but as you can tell she tries her hardest to get off of her tummy. Funny thing is, she loves to sleep tummy to tummy with me. We're just trying to prevent having to wear a helmet for her flat spot. We will keep trying other things. She really liked the butterfly wings on her play mat because they were crinkly. Mirror, Mirror on the wall, whose the fairest of them all! Why of course you are, sweet Emerson! She likes to look at herself even after she's thrown up all over her clothes. Poor baby girl.
Of course Cooper wanted to get in on the action. His comment to me was, "I was waiting for you to open that." He loves her toys. I guess he's still getting used to not being the only child in the house.