Friday, February 24, 2012
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Fun at the Park!
Here are some of the most recent pictures of my kiddos! It was the first time I put Elsie's hair in two piggytails and I thought it was so cute!! Enjoy!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Hatcher's 3rd Birthday
Here are the photobook/scrapbook pages for Hatcher's 3rd birthday at home. We celebrated his birthday at everyone's house we went to during the Christmas holidays, so we just had a low-key day around the house on his actual birthday.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Christmas Pictures
I finished all of my photobook/scrapbook pages for our Christmas at our house, so I figured I would post them to give you a better idea of my new quick style of scrapbooking. Enjoy!!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Creating Fun!!
We've had lots of fun this year doing crafts already! Here are a few of the pages I made showing our fun. 
This also shows my new scrapbooking style...no embellishments, just pictures and words. I have to crank through the pages alot faster now with two little ones, so I have a bunch of templates just for pictures. I really do like the clean look of the pages too. Thanks for stopping by!
This also shows my new scrapbooking style...no embellishments, just pictures and words. I have to crank through the pages alot faster now with two little ones, so I have a bunch of templates just for pictures. I really do like the clean look of the pages too. Thanks for stopping by!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Hatcher is 3!!
We've had a busy couple of weeks with lots of Christmas celebrating, lots of traveling, lots of birthday celebrating, and lots of New Year's celebrating! It has been fun being with lots of family and it has especially been fun having our little family of 4 together so much during the holidays! I'll just post a couple of pictures today of all the fun. One of our biggest celebrations was Hatcher turning 3!! wow!! He's such a great little guy and definitely becoming more of a little boy than a toddler. Here is a little picture recap of all of his birthdays/half-birthday pictures. 
Today we ran a few errands and I put Elsie in a cute little white smocked top with pink pants. When Hatcher saw her, he said "Elsie looks like an angel." I said, "Oh really? You think she looks like an angel?" He said, "Yes, sent from above". wow!! He is so cool! He really has been listening to all of the Christmas stories! :) I took a couple of pictures of them today that turned out pretty cute, so I thought I would post them. 
Have a Happy New Year!
Today we ran a few errands and I put Elsie in a cute little white smocked top with pink pants. When Hatcher saw her, he said "Elsie looks like an angel." I said, "Oh really? You think she looks like an angel?" He said, "Yes, sent from above". wow!! He is so cool! He really has been listening to all of the Christmas stories! :) I took a couple of pictures of them today that turned out pretty cute, so I thought I would post them. 
Have a Happy New Year!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Bethlehem Breakfast
Our church in Huntsville had a Bethlehem breakfast this past Saturday for all of the little ones. 
It was really cool...all of the "characters" from the story of the birth of Jesus were going around to each table and telling the story of who they were and what part they played in the birth of Jesus and they each gave the children a little gift that went along with their character. 
Pretty neat! It's always good to be reminded in a different way of Jesus' birth and hopefully it helped Hatcher to understand it even more. 
Enjoy this wonderful Christmas season!!
It was really cool...all of the "characters" from the story of the birth of Jesus were going around to each table and telling the story of who they were and what part they played in the birth of Jesus and they each gave the children a little gift that went along with their character. 
Pretty neat! It's always good to be reminded in a different way of Jesus' birth and hopefully it helped Hatcher to understand it even more. 
Enjoy this wonderful Christmas season!!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Thanksgiving fun!
Just a few pictures of our wonderful Thanksgiving! Here is our little cutie with her thanksgiving dress on... 
We had a great Thanksgiving with Ben's family. My sister-in-law, Cassie, and I did the majority of the cooking and it was alot of fun! Here are the three grandkids on that side.
Then we headed to Chattanooga on Saturday and had a very yummy Thanksgiving meal prepared by my mom! She did a fabulous job as always with all of the appetizers, wassail, main course and an assortment of great desserts! Thanks mom! Here are the four grandkids on that side. 
Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving and thanked the Lord for all of the blessings in your life!
We had a great Thanksgiving with Ben's family. My sister-in-law, Cassie, and I did the majority of the cooking and it was alot of fun! Here are the three grandkids on that side.
Then we headed to Chattanooga on Saturday and had a very yummy Thanksgiving meal prepared by my mom! She did a fabulous job as always with all of the appetizers, wassail, main course and an assortment of great desserts! Thanks mom! Here are the four grandkids on that side. 
Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving and thanked the Lord for all of the blessings in your life!
Friday, November 12, 2010
Our Little Artist
Just thought I would post some of our favorite pictures from the fall. Here is one of Hatcher working in our driveway from the middle of September. I love his little hand on his hip!!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Boxes, Boxes Everywhere
We are moving back to Huntsville! 
We don't know when yet. It all depends on when our house sells. We are just trusting the Lord with all of the details. God has blessed us so much through providing jobs and houses and children and everything else we have needed for these past 7+ years of marriage. We know that He will work it all out in the right time. He is so faithful!
We don't know when yet. It all depends on when our house sells. We are just trusting the Lord with all of the details. God has blessed us so much through providing jobs and houses and children and everything else we have needed for these past 7+ years of marriage. We know that He will work it all out in the right time. He is so faithful!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Does Elsie look like me?
Ok, so I had so much fun comparing Ben and Hatcher, so I thought it might be fun to compare Elsie and me. I have really enjoyed hearing people tell me that they think she looks like me, since Hatcher is the spitting image of Ben. Well, I searched long and hard for a photo of me and Elsie that looked similar, but I really couldn't find one. There are certain looks and smiles that look similar. I catch a glimpse of her every once in a while that remind me of myself, but when I do a side-by-side comparison, there is just not the striking resemblance like there is with Hatcher and Ben. Oh well, at least I see a few similarities in us! So what do you think? I just put a collection of pictures together so you can compare. The 3 large pictures are me and the 4 small ones are Elsie. You can click on the picture to make it bigger if you want to. Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Wonderful Blessings!!
Ben and I say over and over how much we love these kiddos and how much fun they are! We just love that the Lord has blessed us with Hatcher and Elsie! Here are a couple of recent pictures. When I first saw this one of Hatcher, it reminded me so much of a picture of Ben from when he was little, so I had to do a little side-by-side comparison. 
Elsie is on the move these days! She is taking lots of steps and decides to walk rather than crawl often. She is also a little daredevil and loves to climb onto anything!! Here she is giving us a big smile while she was reading! 
Thanks for stopping by!
Elsie is on the move these days! She is taking lots of steps and decides to walk rather than crawl often. She is also a little daredevil and loves to climb onto anything!! Here she is giving us a big smile while she was reading! 
Thanks for stopping by!
Friday, August 20, 2010
Summer Consistencies: Thursday Night Ice Cream
Just about every Thursday night that we have been in town, we have been at Bruster's Ice Cream. They have a deal where if you bring your own banana on Thursday, then you get half off a banana split, which is THREE scoops of ice cream!!!! Crazy good deal on very tasty ice cream! So we get these huge things of ice cream for around $2.50 apiece! 
Mine is very large because Ben doesn't really want banana on his, so we ask them to add both bananas to mine. My dad would especially love this "bringing your own banana" part because you get to pick the ripeness/condition of the banana that gets added to your ice cream. No worries about bruises or getting all of the banana ends thrown in your dessert. :) And the kids get an awesome free ice cream with a cute face on it since they are under a certain height. 
Elsie gets to taste a little bit of the italian ice, which doesn't have milk in it, but really, all she wants is the spoons and the tasty cone all by its yummy self. 
Our Bruster's just happens to be next to a Sears, so Hatcher always gets the added fun of riding on the lawnmowers or go karts that are sitting outside. 
Usually Bruster's has a huge thing of sidewalk chalk out and that entertains him alot, too. Very fun summer memories!
Mine is very large because Ben doesn't really want banana on his, so we ask them to add both bananas to mine. My dad would especially love this "bringing your own banana" part because you get to pick the ripeness/condition of the banana that gets added to your ice cream. No worries about bruises or getting all of the banana ends thrown in your dessert. :) And the kids get an awesome free ice cream with a cute face on it since they are under a certain height. 
Elsie gets to taste a little bit of the italian ice, which doesn't have milk in it, but really, all she wants is the spoons and the tasty cone all by its yummy self. 
Our Bruster's just happens to be next to a Sears, so Hatcher always gets the added fun of riding on the lawnmowers or go karts that are sitting outside. 
Usually Bruster's has a huge thing of sidewalk chalk out and that entertains him alot, too. Very fun summer memories!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Summer Consistencies: Swimming
There are two things that we have consistently done all summer long and I had not taken pictures of us doing either of these things. So this week I made sure I grabbed my camera to document two of our favorite summer activities. The first is going swimming in our neighborhood pool. 
Ben and I have added to our list of "things we want in our next house if we ever move" the neighborhood pool. Hatcher affectionately calls it the "neighbor pool" and always asks if we can go swimming in the "neighbor pool". 
We have gone a couple of times pretty much every week of the summer that we have been in town. It surprises us how little it is used. There is hardly ever anyone else there. We have met a few couples here and there from our neighborhood, so that has been nice, but usually we have the pool all to ourselves. 
Hatcher is a little fish. He started out in swimming lessons at the end of May (for 2 weeks) and he hated going under water. Now we cannot keep him from going under and swimming around. He gets the biggest grin on his face right before he jumps in to swim to mommy or daddy. He loves it!! Once he swims out to us, we give him a little push back towards the steps in the pool and he swims over to them and stands up and jumps off again, right back to us with the great big grin. I love it! 
Elsie has gotten a lot better at going under water too. She does really good holding her breath and going under for a little bit. We just had to figure out how to let her know she was going under so that she could hold her breath before she went under. Now she knows a little routine and Ben and I send her back and forth under water and she usually does really well with it. 
Her favorite thing to do in the pool is to stand on the steps and then pull herself up on the top step, which is still in the water, and crawl from end to end and splash along the way. 
Of course she also likes to be in her float for a little bit and be carried around in the pool by mommy and daddy. 
We have had such a good time at the pool this summer with these little ones!! They love the pool and Ben and I love it because it is so easy with the kiddos since they are greatly entertained and there is usually no need for any discipline. Very fun times! I'll tell you about the second thing we have done consistently this summer next time. Thanks for stopping by!
Ben and I have added to our list of "things we want in our next house if we ever move" the neighborhood pool. Hatcher affectionately calls it the "neighbor pool" and always asks if we can go swimming in the "neighbor pool". 
We have gone a couple of times pretty much every week of the summer that we have been in town. It surprises us how little it is used. There is hardly ever anyone else there. We have met a few couples here and there from our neighborhood, so that has been nice, but usually we have the pool all to ourselves. 
Hatcher is a little fish. He started out in swimming lessons at the end of May (for 2 weeks) and he hated going under water. Now we cannot keep him from going under and swimming around. He gets the biggest grin on his face right before he jumps in to swim to mommy or daddy. He loves it!! Once he swims out to us, we give him a little push back towards the steps in the pool and he swims over to them and stands up and jumps off again, right back to us with the great big grin. I love it! 
Elsie has gotten a lot better at going under water too. She does really good holding her breath and going under for a little bit. We just had to figure out how to let her know she was going under so that she could hold her breath before she went under. Now she knows a little routine and Ben and I send her back and forth under water and she usually does really well with it. 
Her favorite thing to do in the pool is to stand on the steps and then pull herself up on the top step, which is still in the water, and crawl from end to end and splash along the way. 
Of course she also likes to be in her float for a little bit and be carried around in the pool by mommy and daddy. 
We have had such a good time at the pool this summer with these little ones!! They love the pool and Ben and I love it because it is so easy with the kiddos since they are greatly entertained and there is usually no need for any discipline. Very fun times! I'll tell you about the second thing we have done consistently this summer next time. Thanks for stopping by!
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