Just Cute!

Oh yeah and the loud squeal in the back is Maddie, she got a little excited!

My How Time Does FLY...

I found these pictures tonight of Maddie the summer of 2007. I just can hardly remember her looking like this. These were taken just a few months before she turned 2. I was just reminiscing and thought I would share these sweet pics of her.

Weekend with the Rents

This weekend my parents came in to see the kids and to help my uncle celebrate his birthday. From the minute I mention that Nana and Papaw are coming to town, Maddie starts getting very anxious for them to get here. I have to be careful how much notice I give her or else she will drive nick and I crazy asking when they are coming. Saturday morning she literally planted herself by the front door and waited for them to pull up.
We had such a good weekend with them, thanks Nana and Papaw for coming to see us!



Running to Nana



Running to Papaw



Nana reading to Wyatt



We ate dinner at Perini's to celebrate my Uncle Steve's birthday.



Wyatt and Daddy goofing off



Cute!



Papaw and wyatt



My Uncle Steve and his grandson Parker
(Happy Birthday!)

Mission: Thanksgiving

Yesterday evening we loaded up the back of our car with about 10 bags of clothes and shoes and headed down to Mission Thanksgiving to give to the Love and Care Ministry. This was the first year Maddie has been able to participate and to really understand what we were doing. We had her go through some of her things and pick what she wanted to give to another little girl that might not have some of the things our kids have been blessed with. She picked this denim jacket to give to "a little girl that was cold." I was so proud of her when she handed that jacket over because she was grinning ear to ear that she had helped someone. The whole way there she was telling Wyatt that, "we have to help people that don't have shoes and coats and clothes, we have to help them!"
It truly is better to give than to receive and my 3 year old got to experience that first hand yesterday. I think we will make this our Thanksgiving tradition from now on!



Driving up to Mission:Thanksgiving (notice the denim coat in hand)



After they unloaded the back of our car this boy came to Maddie's window to take the coat.

Fun Fall Bash

Tonight we drove out to the boonies for Life Group. Our sweet friends Abbye and Tate graciously opened their home to us to have a little fellowship. Their home is built on some of the prettiest land I have ever seen. The food was excellent and the kids and adults had a blast. Here are some pics from our evening.



My little country girl playing in the corn trough.



Kristi and Carson



Our Life Group girls..minus Ranae (we missed you :-( )



Webb, Nick and Wyatt



The Kiddos in the corn.



Me and my girl Kathy



Wyatt eating dinner on the front porch.


Abbye decorated this cake...amazing huh!?

Veterans Day

Today I am celebrating my Dad and my brother's service to our country. Because of these two men (and 3 of my uncles and my papaw), I was raised to respect honor, embrace freedom and have a love of our country. They are also the reason I can rarely hear the National Anthem without tearing up.
I am so proud of my the military heritage in my family and so blessed to have these men for my kids to look up to. No matter how you feel about the wars around the world, these men and so many others like them deserve to be respected and honored not just today but every day. They give selflessly so we can be safe, go months and years without seeing their families and all without complaint.
This Veteran's Day thank the Good Lord for placing you in a country that actually allows you to be able to choose your president and allows you to have freedom of speech and religion. But more than that...thank the Lord for the men and women out there who are doing the fighting for these freedoms--for YOU!