Easter Sunday

Little girl wanted to try and take a picture. i showed her how to look through the view finder and then where to press to snap the picture. she practiced with one of me.....

and then took one of me and the hubby

we set the camera on a bench to get a family picture of us.

you can see the past few years of Easter pictures here: 2016 (scroll to the bottom to see the pic of the kids and the family picture) 2015

My Men

 I am one pretty lucky girl. I have two pretty awesome men that live right here in my very house. My husband and father of my children, who is my compete opposite in almost every way, except the ways that are important and I am grateful for that. he is wonderful dad and loves our kids fiercely. and my sweet little man (golden boy). he isn't a dad but I pray that one day he will be. I occasionally pray for his future wife. that wile she may be his complete opposite that she is the same where it matters. that she is a God fearing lady who loves family and embraces our family and molds well into a life with him and us as in laws.

  aside from the two that live in my house there are three others in my life that are a huge blessing and love like no other. my dad......he loves big, the supports strong, he provided and provides like no other. he only wanted girls when it was time to have children (no snot nose little boys, he said.) but he ended up with three grandsons that are, I am pretty sure, quite precious to him. they call him "Bear" then there is my grandfather......he is strong but can be gentle, he and my grandmother have been married for 60 year, (that says a lot) he loves like you can't imagine, even though sometimes he can be rough around the edges. he loves Jesus and has shown me that the verse "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength" is possible. and finally my father in law.......he was half of who raised my husband, he made him into the man he is today (which sometimes can be frustrating, but ultimately I am grateful for) he can fix just about anything. he has a big heart and an even bigger sweet tooth than me. he loves adventure but equally loves to curl up at home and rest (we are alike that way) he loves my family and I love him for it. my kids call him "Papa"

this is the card that golden boy made for his daddy for fathers day. we found the idea on pinterest of course. here is the link to the site.

 this one I found a clip art for and printed for my daughter to give him. we added this recipe for homemade bbq sauce
once the crafting starts my son usually can't stop. he wanted to make another minion card for his daddy. he asked me to draw a purple minion and then he colored it in and added words to it.

bear has a lake house. we visit often. my son made the foot and my daughter the hand. it is just prefect. got the idea from pinerest! where else? here is the pin.

papa has a goat farm so we made this card for him for fathers day. the tractor is golden boys foot and the goat is little girls hand. I found quite a few pins for the tractor and goat. here are some of the links
tractor
tractor and cow
tractor
sheep

we added a cute little disc photo album to his bbq sauce and I took a picture of the kids that I found here and made it our desktop wall paper and email it to him so that he could make it his desk top wall paper at work.

Our 4th of July

here we are watching the fireworks at bridgestreet. it was little guys first time to see fire works. we had him in his stroller at first and he wasn't really sure what to think about the colors and noises. i could see him getting scared so i picked him up and he sat on my lap the rest of the time and enjoyed them. my niece made her way into my hubby's lap and my nephew sat in his daddy's lap. we had a really good time.

this is my firework pics from 2 years ago. and this one is another one of my fave's. it was the first time that i ever tried to take pics of fireworks and it was so strange to me but i love it.

IN OTHER NEWS: little guy's two front teeth (E&F) have finally come through the gums. they have been hanging out up in his gums for forever. he finally worked them through and we are so thrilled.

Jubilee Festival

the jubilee festival happens every year the weekend of memorial day. we went last year for the first time and decided that this was going to be something that we do every year. it's cool and lots of fun. little guy loved being outside.

going up

and up (the indside)

and up (cool fire)

and up!

oh and my little energizer bunny

Late, Late, Late

i am really, really late on posting these pics. i may have mentioned it before, but we don't have a computer at home so i don't get to the computer very often. just the days that i work and then whenever i can use my in-laws, sometimes working computer. anyways, here is the pics from little guys baby dedication and mother's day. at lunch i am going to sit down and post a bunch more photos, so stay tuned. :)

little guy's baby dedication

my neice. she's such a little ham.

the cousins

me and my boy on mother's day

my sweet hubby went and got me the book that i wanted for mother's day.

Eggs

here are the eggs that we dyed when we went to see my parents a couple of weeks before easter.

Cool Dude

these were in his easter basket. he's not all that thrilled about them until we get out in the sun and then he doesn't fool with them all that much.

Easter

here's little guy with the easter basket that the easter bunny brought him. no candy in it though. his sweets were containers of baby food fruit. then some diapers, pj's (family easter tradition), and come cool baby shades. my hubby said that little guy looks like me in this picture. at least he said it looks like my baby pictures. hey i'm just glad that someone said that he looks like me. he is all his daddy. except for the little dimple in his chin. i have a slight one and my daddy has on. he at least gets that from me. :)

Our Little Valentine

little guy and mr. bubbles

i love this outfit

especially the patches on the elbows

he loves his hands

Happy Baby

this was taken about 2 weekends ago when we went through the galaxy of lights. basically a walk through of lots of Christmas lights. sawyer started off sleeping and then he woke up. don't let this picture deceive you though. after about 5 min of the happy baby he got really mad because he had gas.

Happy Thanksgiving...

...a day early.
going out of town for thanksgiving.
won't have computer access.
so that means no blogging access.
hope everyone has a good time.
don't eat to much.
yeah right. :)

Random Tuesday

What foods do you traditionally serve or eat on Thanskgiving? turkey of course, dressing, my fave cranberry sauce, oyster dressing, rice and gravey, granny's mac n cheese, mandarin salad w/o coconut in it (granny makes it special for me and my dad), brown n serve rolls, green bean cassarole, sweet potatos and pies. i think that's everything maybe there is more though.

Do you have any specific recipes you'd recommend?
pumpkin cranberry bread
here is the recipee that my friend amber posted on her blog. so yummy!

The Littlest Cowboy

Random Tuesday

1. What is your favorite Fall color (on clothes, on trees, etc.)? i love them all. green is my all time favorite color and it amazes me that leaves can change from green to all different colors. God is truely amazing. i love fall.

2. What is your favorite Fall food?almost anything pumpkin, apples, thanksgiving dinner

3. Do you like or dislike daylight savings time?i'm not a big fan of it getting dark earlier and i don't really understand daylight savings time. who came up with it? but i'm not sure if it's something that i can say that i like or dislike. the extra hour is yummy.

4. Do you like or dislike football?i guess i like it but my hubby is somewhat obsessed with it so sometimes i don't like it because of his obsession. i actually like going to the games and it's been years since i've been to one.

5. Do you have any special Thanksgiving traditions?not really. maybe we need to start some but just getting together with extended family is great to me.

6. What is the weather like where you live this time of year?i have a love/hate realationship with cold weather. i love bundeling up in warm clothes and drinking warm coffee, cider, coco...but really hate being cold. like right now my toes are feezing and i hate it. the weather is a strange thing here. sometime perfect and then we hear the next day the lows are in the 20's. WHAT! the south! you never know.

7. Share at least one favorite Fall memory. going on hikes, with my camera and viewing fall folage (as my hubby calls it) :)

8. What are you thankful for today? that my mom is here to watch my son, that my sister and grandparent are coming to see my son (and me too), that my hubby is such a hard worker(even when his job can sometimes get him down), that he has that job and makes just the right amount to have the perfect insurance so that we don't have this astronomical bill for baby boys first couple of days.

Random Tuesday

* Are you dressing up this Halloween? cowgirl

* If you have kids, are they dressing up? little cowboy (picture to come.)

* Do you have memories of a specific costume from your childhood? i don't really remember any memorable ones. i think that i may have been a punkrocker one year.

* If you could have any candy put in your Halloween basket, what would it be? tootsie rolls

* Fill in the blank: "Trick or treat____________________." definatelly "Smell my feet; give me something good to eat."

Happy Valentines Day