Catching Up On A Year

Okay, we are incredibly far behind but I am determined to make it up and catch everyone up. So, in order to catch up, I'm gonna hit ya' hard, I'm gonna hit ya' fast!


First, there was actual Christmas. Elizabeth lucked out with tons of baby doll toys.

Owen received his share of toys.

Later, in January, we all went to DisneyWorld. 

Then we travelled to St. Augustine to visit friends (and alligators).

Later, in March, we all went to the St. Patrick's day parade in town

Then in April we went on an Easter egg hunt at our park

(to be continued....>)

Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve! We went over to Nonna's and Pop's for Christmas eve dinner after the church service.  We all relaxed together and the kids had fun playing together and burning off some of the excitement.

After the festivities ended, we went home and prepared for Santa's visit.  The kids and Amy even made some very tasty Christmas cookies.

Christmas in Tunica

This weekend we celebrated Christmas in Tunica with Papa and MawMaw, Zabe and Kristina, and Uncle Burt and Aunt Rebekah.

It was nice to see everyone in the same place, especially since it's a fairly rare occurrence.

 The family visited, ate and enjoyed good company.  Then, it was time for the kids' favorite activity...presents. Elizabeth helped Aunt Rebekah hand out everyone's presents to them.

She also helped people open their presents.

Later, she spent all her time baking cakes with her new playset while Owen wrestled his new snake.

Plus, Owen was enjoying his MS State Bulldog sleeping bag.

 Merry Christmas everyone!

Halloween '10

We have had a wonderful Halloween night. The kids enjoyed it as much as the parents.  

Yes, Pop, we see you in the window...


Here's the pumpkin we carved.

Later, we all went trick or treating around the neighborhood. Some of the houses were definitely in the spirit.

State Game '10

We went to watch the Bulldogs play this weekend.  We met up with our friends Jennifer, Michael, and their daughter Ava.  We tailgated for a good few hours before the game and everyone had a great time.

The kids enjoyed playing together.

Plus, State beat UAB so it was a good trip all around! Go State!

Pumpkin Patch Party Crashers

This morning Amy and I woke up and thought that we should take the kids to the pumpkin patch to let them pick out a pumpkin for Halloween.  We later learned that we have spectacular timing!


We show up to the pumpkin patch and walk inside to pay and collect our pumpkin carrying bags.  Then, we head outside to wait for the hayride to come by and pick us up.  The odd thing was, the hayrides normally run one at a time.  This alternating of rides keeps everything from getting backed up.  Today, however, they both began loading at the same time.  No problem, let's go with it.

We began the hayride with a very large group of people but we didn't think anything of it.  We made our rounds around the MS Ag Museum and it wasn't until we finally stopped that we realized that, oops...we were crashing some child's birthday party!  We were among two dozen other people in the old towne section of the Ag Museum talking with a character from the 1860's and not at all knowing how to get out of this situation.

Yeah, we know none of these people.

Owen loved talking with the character though.  He would wander off to find her and ask her question after question.

When our kids were done with the questions and everyone had eaten cookies handed out by the birthday party planners, we made a hasty retreat!  We stopped to pick up our pumpkins and got out of there.  

I have to admit, that was one of the most memorable trips to the pumpkin patch we've ever had.