Happy New Year!

So, the Christmas days have come and gone....so sad. I've got a little bit of the after Christmas blues...plus my hubby is gone for the week....now that's a double downer! Here are the highlights of Christmas and some highlights of life right now!

Christmas Eve at my parents is always fun. Yummy food and lots of tradition. We missed my bro and his family this year...all were sick :o(


So, I'm not big on matching the girls, but Christmas dresses are a must!


One of the traditions - an adult gets sucked in to dressing up as Santa. This year...Pop Pop! M doesn't talk much and she studies people. By the end she figured out who it was.

No, its not a real 4-wheeler! - I would be on it if it were!!!! One day folks, one day.

Grandma and Grandpa came to visit! We loved having them here and the kids had a blast seeing them.

Our freezing day at Stone Mountain! But, it was fun!

Other big news.....



No, I'm not pregnant.



O is officially walking! Yesterday, January 3rd was the day that she walked more than she crawled. She is so proud of herself!


And Jake is riding a bike without training wheels. Since he is pretty tall, he now looks like he is riding a mini bike. His legs are pedaling really fast...I guess it's time to get a new one. No picture. Sorry!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

Now, who wouldn't want to just eat this little turkey up! Here is O on Thanksgiving. Such a big 1 year old (birthday pictures will be posted after her party next weekend). Enjoy some pictures of our Thanksgiving. It was a nice slow day, watching the parade, sitting in pj's, and then going to Mimi and PopPop's to stuff our FACES! I can't decide if I like T-Day's food or Christmas food better. Some of my Fav T-Day food is sweet potatoe casserole, my mom's stuffing (best in the world and of course has italian sausage in it), and my mom's gravy!!!! Enjoy these pix:

Buddies!

M loves her Aunt!

Love that face!

He's 5!!!

Hard to believe, I know. That boy turned 5 about 3 weeks ago! Well, this was probably my last year of doing "just the family" party. With having 6 cousins that live close by, it's easy to do! But, this year he kept asking: "why aren't my friends from school coming?" We did a Nemo party. It was a bast with using a video projector and making the downstairs of my parents house a movie theater. The kids loved it. Here are some pictures of the birthday boys celebrations!

The movie theater eating popcorn

The cousins


I love school parties

birthday dinner, loves his new baseball glove, random picture of happy "O"

Hope to be blogging more....we'll see :0)

My mom is cool

So, just found out a GREAT deal for all of you Bank of America card holders. Check out this and look to see what museums will be free to you the first weekend of every month!!! Yes, FREE. If you are a B of A card holder, you will get in free. You can look up your city and they will have the listing. I think it is even more than museums. CHECK IT OUT! I'm excited, can you tell?

My little O is now 9 months old....crawling...she's our little explorer.

Then and Now

My sides hurt from laughing so hard. Last weekend I was able to see my LU friends. SO FUN! I have not laughed that hard for that long in years! Most of us had not seen each other in a long time. Some of us, not since college (11 years ago) and I kid you not...we picked up right where we left off. I felt like I was 18 again. These are girls that I can be myself with. Girls that it's mostly about being goofy and playing pranks on each other. We all have different lives now. God is teaching each of us about trust in different ways. Some in harder ways than others. But, in some ways we haven't changed a bit. It was really refreshing and I thank God for these friends. He put them each in my life for a specific purpose. And the older I get the more I see why too. We serve an awesome God and I love that he created laughter as good medicine (Proverbs 17:22). Can't wait till we do it again.

Have we changed much??????

Stay-cation ending in Savannah

It's hard to believe that the summer is ending for those of us in the south. For some reason, even though my kids aren't in school yet, when school starts it just feels like the summer is over. AND for some ridiculous reason the schools around here go back at the BEGINNING of August. ARGGHH! Seriously ridiculous. It's SOOO hot! Well, we've had a fun and eventful summer. Many things I didn't share here because I just never go around to it. But, I did want to share our STAY-CATION. My hubby took time off last week and we decided to stay in town. At least that was our final decision. Of course we went back and forth about what to do (decisions for us don't come easy), but finally decided to stay close and do things around town. WELL...little did we know that we'd get to go on a little get-away just the two of us for 3 WHOLE DAYS. Thanks to one of our pastors and his BRAVE family.

I'll just tell you with pictures about our week. We had a great one!

Started the week off with a nice bike ride at the Chattahoochee River. So fun! This is our new thing we do as a family. J's bike is actually attached to mine.

The girls love riding in the trailer.

BABYLAND to HELEN-LAND

Here is a picture in front of Babyland General...Home of the cabbage patch hospital. We decided to stop there on the way to Helen. My husband was THRILLED!!!! J was not too excited either.

I know one day my son will not like me to show these pictures. Notice M's thumbs up!


Our next stop was Helen. But J keep calling it "Helen-land". It's really funny. I've been there so many times that I didn't take pictures of the Alpine village. But here's a picture of us after we hiked to see Ruby Falls. It's just outside of the little town.

The Chattahoochee runs right through the town and there are great places for the kids to play in the water. They had a blast!

Big bro and little miss priss...


Here's a sequence of some of my FAVORITE pictures from our week:

"O" loves her big brother. Before he layed down she was serious and focused on that bottle...

SAVANNAH


The city was beautiful. We loved the architecture and the trees.
Relaxing is the word for our trip!


Our day at Tybee Island was wonderful! I haven't gotten to read a book on the beach in a LONG time. It was blissful!



We stayed at the Planters Inn which is in the historic district and we walked everywhere. Jon planned this whole trip without me knowing and surprised me. It was a much needed trip and we had a great time.


After 3 long days together...Thanks guys!!!!

Summer Fun

Doing the tomahawk chop

Here are some highlights of the life of Rambo's kids

1. J's first Brave's game - he loved it and was in awe!!!

1. 4th of July parade that has become a tradition since we've moved here! The kids LOVE it, but it has way too many politicians and pageant girls.

1. BarBQ at Mimi and Pop Pop's - always a fun time with the family
2. Fireworks that we watched from our back yard! Our city puts on a great show and we live in walking distance to it. As the kids slept we watched the show!
   
3. Rambo's kids parents are looking for a house. No finds yet...no one ever told me how hard this is!