A look back at 2009 cont.....

July -July 4th was very fun! Grammy, Uncle Benji, and Aunt Natalie came to visit. We did fireworks and sparklers at our house. The boys both loved them!! Bennett was crawling everywhere, and was not even trying to get up to walk! My birthday was on the 12th. I turned 28. We went out to eat with good friends. Good times!!
 

 

August -Bennett turned 1 on August 15th, and that was the day he decided to walk. It was very cute and quite funny, but he did! It was a great family month and there was a lot of going to the park and playing outside, especially since Bennett was walking.
 

September -The boys started school. This was Braeden's second year, and Bennett's first. The first day went very well. There was no crying and both boys had a good day. Gabe had his 28th birthday on the 11th, and our 5th anniversary was on the 25th!
 

October -This was such a FUN month. I LOVE the fall, so all of the decorations went up! We visited Walden pumpkin farm and had a wonderful time, as always! Halloween was fun with the boys going from door to door trick-or-treating! After just one street, they were both ready to head home! lol
 

November -Thanksgiving!! Yummy! It was the start of a yummy food journey! We had a Thanksgivin feast for Braeden's class at school. It was adorable. They made Indian outfits and made up their own Indian name. His was "Rockin' Dude"! Sooo, cute!! We put up our Christmas tree the week before Thanksgiving! I LOVE Christmas, so it was no surprise we got started so soon!! We had Thanksgiving dinner at our house. Natalie, Benji and Gabe's dad came. It was my first Thanksgiving that I wasn't with my family. I don't want to do that again. Fixing the dinner was no big deal at all, I just missed them!!
 

 

December -What a FUN month! The boys' had their Christmas program at school. Both of them stayed on stage and Braeden sang and did hand motions! It was really cute! Braeden's 3rd birthday was on the 20th. He wanted so bad to have his party at the "bounce place", so we did. He had 8 friends come. A few from school, his teacher and her kids and a couple other friends. Needless to say, he had a BLAST!! He had his first glass of Sprite. He LOVED it. In fact, he didn't even care about his cake. He just wanted to sip on his sprite out of his big boy cup!! It was cute!
Of course Christmas was very fun! Santa was good to both of the boys! And of course he brought them WAY too many things!! Nina and Pop Paw were here to celebrate with us!!
 

 

A look back at 2009

January -It started out fun! (Dr.)Shea came to Nashville with Christ Temple Choir and she was able to get away from Opryland, and come visit me and see our house. The boys really loved seeing her! Braeden loved wearing his cowboy hat and boots that Grandpa gave him for Christmas. He also liked to try to put the hat on Bennett!
Bennett was 5 months and becoming more fun to "play" with. He really love playing in his entertainer.

 

February -Bennett started on baby food. He really liked it! He also started sitting up on his own, and we had a very warm day the beginning of the month, and our first "snow" of the year at the end of the month. Even though it was only a couple of inches, we built a small snowman!

 

March -The weather started turning quite nice pretty early, so we had several trips to the park and to the zoo. We also had our first small family of 4 vacation to Chattanooga for a couple of days. We went to the aquarium, the discovery center, and did some shopping. It was a great first trip with 2 sweet boys! Bennett also started crawling!

 

April -Since Bennett started crawling, he was into everything, and Braeden was having much more "fun" with him! Easter was a fun time! I took Braeden to the zoo for an Easter egg "hunt".(If anyone has been there, you know there is no hunting. Thousands of eggs are just laying ALL over a huge field!) He had a blast! Bennett has stared eating cheerios and gerber puffs. Gabe also had his abdominal surgery!

 

May -Aunt Natalie graduated nursing school, so we went to West Virginia. We had a blast staying in a hotel room and visiting with family. We also had a chance to hang out with Heath and Hailey. We went on a golf cart ride, went fishing, threw rocks in the creek and went swinging at the park. At home MDO ended and it was warm enough to get the pool out back and go swimming!

 

June -This was our first major family of 4 vacation! We went to Florida to visit Aunt E. We drove all night(the best idea!), and got there ready to swim and play! Aunt E had a pool, Uncle Jake had a pool and a river to fish in and a boat to go out on the ocean, we went to Disney and met Mickey and Minnie Mouse and of course went to the beach. I caught fish in the river and the ocean! It was too fun!! Both boys enjoyed EVERY minute!! They were very well behaved! I'm very blessed to have such a great family!

 

 

Contract is signed!

Well, so far, my crazy life has been a whole reason why I am just posting again since last time! We signed a contract on our house today! This is a really exciting day! However, I am quite nervous about a few things. I am wondering how it is going to be in Florida. I think it will be fun, and quite a change. I am nervous about the whole finding a new job, a new church, living with my sis, finding a MDO for the kids, etc, but I am really excited to be moving so close to so many of my family members: my parents, my sis, my uncles(mom and dad's side), cousins(mom and dad's side), and my papaw. It will definitely be a HUGE change, but I'm pretty sure we will get used to it. I mean, it is FLORIDA!!!!

I am very new to blogging. In fact I have only read a few friends' blogs. Here is a picture of my beautiful family. I hope to be able to update often about my life and my family life.