Charlie is Two

Today is Charlie's second birthday! I never imagined when we went in bright and early on December 19th, 2012 that our lives would be filled with that much joy all over again.  Charlie has more personality than the rest of us combined do and he makes all 3 of us laugh constantly. I love when Whit says mommy "Charlie is crazy!" bc he is. I love every part of that ball of joy. He is happy 95% of the time. Now, don't get me wrong when he is mad he has full tears pouring out in 5 seconds! He is fearless which scares me to death. He will jump off of something and can land a jump almost perfectly. He looks at us when he knows he has done something "edgy" and says " See that!" His dark brown eyes cut into you and you melt.
He is my snuggle bunny though. He wakes up and wants me to sit with him every morning. He will sit in my lap most of the time and enjoys held.
We love our Charlie boy and I cannot wait to see what this personality of his holds for his life!

 

Busy Time of Year!

We have been busy busy!! We have been getting settled in the new house and are loving it! It may be empty but it is so wonderful!
For Thanksgiving this year we celebrated with my family on Wednesday night and headed to the farm Thursday morning. We had 48 people at the farm for Thanksgiving lunch! It was so fun. We spent the rest of the weekend playing and enjoying the farm like we always do!
This weekend we celebrated Cookie's birthday on Thursday and Friday :) We also got our tree on Friday night. Whit thought everyone we picked up was perfect. Saturday was the first Saturday in a long time that we got to just be at home! We got some things done around the house. Then Saturday afternoon we had a birthday party for the boys! We went to Heavenly Donuts to celebrate. They had a lot of fun and I am thankful for Whit's friends that all came to decorate. There was a lot of sugar consumed and everyone enjoyed it!! We are still eating donuts!
Yesterday we headed to church and then to see Santa at the club with Cookie and Doc. The boys were precious. They kept peeking at Santa while we were in line and were so excited. When it was our turn they both got a little nervous but eventually both were in his lap smiling!! It was a Christmas miracle!!! Lunch was fun and yummy. Thank you Cookie and Doc!
We headed to Chuck E Cheese last night for another party and all had fun there too! It was a fun filled weekend and we are looking forward to more Christmas activities this week!

4

Whit is 4. How is that possible! We celebrated last weekend by a trip to Daves pizza, Demetris and moving into our new house :) He is having a party this coming weekend but we did celebrate his precious life!
At 4 years old Whit is sweet, loving, disobedient, rough, and kind all at the same time. He still has a sweet heart. I am thankful for this. He holds my hand on the way to school in the mornings when I ask. He always needs one more hug at kiss at drop off and at night. On the other hand he does not listen to me at all, shows lots of frustration and is all boy. We have lots of battles but I will admit most are due to my impatience. He plays rough and gets frustrated with Charlie. Thankfully Charlie is really tough :)
He is good at school. The only troubles we have are playing rough and rowdy with the other boys in the class. I really cannot complain about that though bc I want him to be a boy. He is very smart in my book but I don't really have anything to compare it to :) He asks good questions and never forgets things.
He loves musical instruments, watching Chuggington in the mornings, playing outside with daddy, trucks, any kind of "treats", Charlie, and being cozy. At the doctor last week he weighed 40 lbs and is 42 inches tall.
I cannot imagine my life with out my blue eyed baby. He is so precious and I am so thankful for him!

Favorite Place to be!

He was so excited about his new PlayMobil

Demetris



Busy Busy

Well we moved out of the old house last weekend. It was a long exhausting process. We have stuff at the new house, mom and dads and in a POD. We may put it all back together again one day :)
We are thankful that we have my parents house to camp out in until the new house is ready. Hopefully only about a month. We may be in depression when we leave though bc the boys are loving being with Cookie and Doc all the time and I am enjoying my laundry and dinner done :)

Once we got moved our next whirlwind was this past weekend. Sumner and Drew got married in Seaside. Thankfully the boys got to stay with Deedee and Jimbo and my whole family headed down Thursday to Seaside.
We started Thursday night with a fun shrimp boil and ended late Saturday night under the (cold) sky in Ruskin Place. It was a beautiful wedding and it was a fun weekend!!

Beautiful bridesmaids luncheon.

Deedee and Jimbo took the boys trick or treating!



Saturday Deedee took them to Walmart for 50% off costumes

Wedding time! Love me a good tux ;)

Party!



Quick Catch Up!

I don't know where we have been or what we have been doing! I guess it has not been anything too much since all I have on my phone is a bunch of random pictures. Since my last post we have been enjoying football season, celebrating birthdays and just keeping busy. We have also started a major project. We are buying my grandmothers house! We sold our house that we bought last year very quickly and we are in the process of re-doing things at Mamaw and Dede's house. It will be great once we are through but for now it is a mess. There are lots of things to be done but for now we are doing the kitchen, redoing hardwoods and lots of paint! The bathrooms will come one day but this will be great for now! We move out of our house in two weeks and will have to move in with my parents for hopefully just a few weeks! Life is a little crazy but it is fun! Update in pictures....

Random Saturday at Lowes

Game Day ready!

Celebrating our Deedee!!

Train at the zoo for Sam's bday

Friends at Sam's Party- just missing Sam and Henry

My crazy Charlie just hanging out while I was monogramming

The mess we have right now at the new house!

Weekend with the girls - 1st weekend in Oct every year.... Good for the soul!