Hey Santa!

After many weeks of talking about visiting Santa and sitting on his lap it was finally time to vist the jolly ole guy!! As you can tell Kade was the only one that was jolly in return. Alex was so scared and Luke really had no reaction at all. Kade told Santa he wanted some WII games and Star Wars stuff while Luke asked for a Blue Mater and Blue Chick Hicks! All Alex wanted was away from Santa.

What a great way to celebrete post 101!!!!!!

A TEA PARTY FOR TWO!!

I was upstairs and I could hear Alex and Steve talking about "Yummy apples, carrots, grapes and Don't drink my tea!" I snuck down the stairs and this is what I found. A tea party! Alex loves for you to sit at her table and eat her food. Geez, I was not even invited!

Happy, Happy Weekend!

We'll we had one heck of a busy weekend! We began on Thursday with Thanksgiving at my Papa's house. Below is a photo with all his grandchildren (excluding myself and my brother). After this adventure we headed over to Steve's dad for more food and family time. If you are wondering this is the only photo that I got on Thanksgiving!

The real highlight of the weekend was on Friday (28th) when our little princess turned 2!!!!! I can not believe it. She is such a doll. Since we had a big bash for Luke and Alex with all of our family and friends we did a low key party at home. She got her gift from us, my parents, and my brother and his family. She was so excited!!!

Here she is digging into her gifts after Kade and Luke show her how to do it.

Did I mention that Alex LOVES Care Bears. Cory, Michelle, and Ellie gave her another large Care Bears. Do you think she liked it??

Here is Dad and Alex enjoying some football with the Care Bears. She made Dad hold one too.

This last photo was taken after we had dinner and cake for Alex's birthday. My dad and the boys goofing off with there Elvis glasses.

Can't you just here Blue Christmas playing in your head!!

Hope everyone has a great holiday season!!

Luke and Alex's party

On October 26th we had a combo party for Luke and Alex. Since their birthdays are only a few weeks apart and poor Alex's fall on the day after Thanksgiving we threw a huge bash!! It was a huge sucess!!!

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Meet Valerie Madison

Valerie Madison

Born: November 12, 2008

Time: 6:10 pm

Weight: 7lbs 7ozs

Length: 20 3/4 in

Nick and Araceli are proud parents of one beautiful baby! Mom and baby are doing great and scheduled to arrive back at there home tomorrow.

The new mom and dad. When I took this photo I said, "Smile and make labor looking easy!!!"

Valerie getting her first check up with the nurse.

The proud new dad holding his daughter. Remember dad every girl needs hairbows, diamonds, and lots and lots of shoes!!!!

She is such a cutie!!!

Mom and baby with her eyes open.

She already looks like a Schimweg!

Stay tuned. I am behind on posting so hopefully I will get everything else up soon. I need to post Halloween and Luke and Alex's combo b-day.

Steve and I are traveling to Auburn this weekend. Let's pray that we win!

GO DAWGS!!

Show me that mean face!!!

Alex is our third child and girl. After having two boys you know that she has to be a little firecracker to keep up with her brothers. And boy is she!!! She may look innocent in all of these photos, but she has a temper. If she gets mad, you can rest assured you are going to get the eat $%^& look. Now we can say "Show me your mean face." and this is what we get.

Our weekend with Ellie Grace

We are back from South Carolina!!

Our weekend went by so fast. We really enjoyed meeting Ellie Grace and we can not wait to see her again. See the video below for our weekend highlights.

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Ellie Grace has arrived!!

Ellie Grace

Born: October 2, 2008

Time: 9:30 pm

Weight: 6lbs 10ozs

Length: 20in

My brother Cory and his wife Michelle have welcomed their first little one.

I am finally an aunt!!!!

Here she is.....

Michelle and Ellie.

Cory and Ellie.

One of many family photos to come.
The grandparents! Grandma's are looking at Ellie and Grandpa's are smiling for the camera.

Ellie sporting her new Georgia Hat.

The photographer came by to take some photos of Ellie so they put her Georgia outfit on. These turned out really cute.
I love this one!


Mommy and Ellie again.

Everyone is doing great. They are supposed to come home tomorrow. We can not wait to get to SC to get our hands on her. Watch out Grandma's I will be rolling in on Friday.

Luke's 3rd Birthday (Sept 20th)

Saturday was Luke's 3rd birthday. We did not have much planned this year. Luke and Alex are having a party together in October. These are the photos that were taken at our house on Saturday. Luke was so excited to get his gifts from us.

Luke is about to open his gift and Alex is hovering to see what is going on. She is probably wondering what she is getting!

Luke has just opened his game and Kade is already trying to "make a deal" so he can get some play time.

This is what our house is really like on a daily basis. Luke and Alex fighting over something. Here they are both trying to hold onto his new toy

Guess who lost!!!

While we were on vacation Luke loved playing golf so what would the perfect gift be.....Gator Golf. He loved it. Actually all the kids loved it!

On Saturday night we meet some of my family for dinner. On Friday the 19th was our Papa Gene's 75th birthday and Luke's 3rd birthday on the 20th. We headed over to Papadeaux's for dinner and cake. Here are the two birthday boys.

Luke we are so blessed to have you! We love you!!!

A Late Summer Vacation!!!

September is now our favorite month to vacation at the beach. Not only are the rates so much cheaper, but there was no one there. We almost had the place to ourselves then Saturday came and everyone arrived for the weekend. We had a great time! We headed to Panama City Beach. Hurricane Ike made things a little crazy. The wind was blowing 25+mph. On Thursday and Friday you could not even walk on the beach because the waves were all the way up to the steps down to the sand. The news reported that waves in the area were 12-16ft! YIKES!!! On Saturday you were able to go back to the beach but the waves were still rough. I had so many pics to post that I just choose to do a slide show. Hope you enjoy!

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Sleepy Heads!

I thought this photo would be great for a dreary Monday!

Happy Rainy Day!!

Lake Lanier Islands

It is almost back to school time and that means back to old routines and bed times. Steve decided last week that he would take some time off and we would do some stuff with the kids before the first school bell rings! We headed over to Lake Lanier Islands for a fun day in the sun. Here we are posing for a photo after lunch.

We also had two people tag along and go with us. Who could it be.....Natalie and Gabby!! Scott had to work so we left without him.

Here is Kade posing for a quick shot before the bucket of water on the top was dumped on his head!
Kade loved all the water slides. Here he is waiting to float ashore so he can ride again.
Steve was not far behind him!
After the boys rode the big slides we headed over to the Wiggly Waves so the little ones could get some sliding action. Here Luke has made his way down the slide.

Next Kade and Gabby decided to race to the bottom of the slide.
Here is Gabby posing on the starfish. Can you tell she has her "cheese" face on!

Here we are running around trying to get the kids on the slide. Do you really think that Kade is going to catch Luke when he gets to the bottom. Actually he moved and then Luke fell into the water at the bottom. Poor Guy!

This is where the day came to an end. We headed over to the wave pool. Kade, Luke, and Gabby all enjoyed jumping the waves. Kade would dive into them and swim. Here is Luke, Natalie, and Gabby making there way into the pool.

Hope everyone has had a great summer!

Our New Photos and Post!!

WE ARE BACK!!!!!!!

Ok, Ok, I know that it has been several weeks since I have posted, but I am trying to get back in to the blogging mood. I have been really busy with my Tastefully Simple stuff, the kids summer stuff, and we went to my brothers house last week. Anyway we are back!!!! I have been reading your blogs but I have not commented yet. I am going to try to do that this week.

Thursday was my birthday. YEAH!!! Steve surprised me by coming home from his trip two days early!! He got home around 2pm with a gift and cake. It was great!

So on Friday Steve and I took the kids to get their long over due photos made. It was quite the experience. The photos turned out great but the 2 hour wait sucked!!!

So I present to you the latest photos of our three kiddos...

Boy, did we forget how hard it is to get all three kids looking at the camera and smiling at the same time. I still think they look good though.

Hope everyone has a great week and if I do not blog again.....

Have a Happy and Safe 4th of July!!