My Holiday Memory

My plan for gifts this year is all homemade. I started making cookies and freezing them before Thanksgiving. So on Thursday I finishing them all up. I started baking and frosting at 8am. By the time I finished my part it was 5 o'clock. I was so tired my feet hurt just ready to pass out on the couch. But I wasn't done yet. It was time to bake sugar cookies with Elijah and Jaidon. They were so excited, they had been waiting all day to do this. They each had a rolling pin and rolled as hard as they could to make the dough flat. Elijah was really good at using the cookie cutters and making sure that each one was spaced out. Jaidon on the other hand just went to town stamping out the cookies. He had stars mixed in with trees, angels wings on Santa's foot. That's the great thing about cookies you can roll it out and start all over again. While the cookies where drying we all made french bread pizza. They were so excited to be "cooking for real". They spread the pizza sauce on the bread and put all there own toppings and on and Elijah put the pizzas in the oven. As they were cooking we looked out side and it had started to snow. The boys grabbed their coats and ran out side. Elijah showed Jaidon how to make a snow ball and hit mommy. (Jaidon thought it was so funny) We came back in ate our pizzas and got to decorating the cookies. We had a mess every where! I never said a word just let the boys decorate how ever they wanted to. I enjoyed just standing there watching them. It was so nice and peaceful that I didn't dare get my camera and ruin the moment. They helped each other and laughed together. Elijah told me this is the best time ever to which Jaidon replied "oh yeah it is". That time with them meant so much to me especially with William gone. We were just able to enjoy being together. I seem to get distracted when William is gone with all the little things that need to be done. But little things can wait my boys can not. I'll always cherish this memory.

Thanksgiving

At AWANA at our church they had a grand prix. The boys had to build their own cars and paint them they could only weigh 5oz. So they had to add weights and be very presics so their car would go down the track the fastest. They did such a great job. Thanks to big Joe for helping Elijah get it all together and weighed out. It was Elijah and Joes first year and Joe got 5th and Elijah got 6th out of about34 so pretty good!!!! Next year will be amazing!!!!

Elijah's 9th Birthday

We did a soccer theme for Elijah's birthday. I made the cake. Not only did it look good it tasted great.

Brennon and Josh entertained us by singing songs by Pink. You can tell who has older sisters.
Jaidon just wanted to dive into the cake.
Joe and Garrett waiting to eat cake.




The table was a little big Elijah really had to reach to blow out his candles. Maybe that means he got an extra wish?

But Big Daddy's always there to help when he needs it.


So many good presents he could hardly contain his happiness.


All the boys were excited Big Daddy is still a boy at heart .
A game of baseball broke out.........................................................

But was shortly interrupted by burps and armpit fart.
I guess when that happens you know you had a great 9 year old birthday party.

Halloween and Election day

It was such a beautiful day in Tennessee on election day. My mom, Elijah, Joe and his mom Ginny stayed at the polls all day. When Joe and Elijah got home they were so dirty from playing outside.

Joe was teaching Jaidon how to be a sign twerler. He looked pretty cute in his batman mask twerling a Joe Carr sign. But it worked all out people won!! Good job boys.


Halloween was a lot of fun. Elijah was off camping with all the men in our family, but Joe was nice enough to help us take Jaidon trick or treating.
We stopped at Bubba's house to get some candy. He had some pretty spooky stuff out front. There's a dead guy driving that car.


In the end Jaidon got cheated out of candy. We only took him to a few places. But he's only three so his hand full of candy was just enough for him. Poor buddy next year he'll have Elijah to show him how it is really done.

What boy's do outside

Elijah and Jaidon were helping Sugie (my mom) plant roses. Well they got distracted by some worms. They loved picking them up putting under the dirt. Jaidon got mad when they wouldn't eat the grass he gave them. And Elijah like seeing them move after he cut them in half. I think we did manage to let 6 go free. RIP to the ones who didn't make it.

William's 10 year class reunion

William has now been out of high school for a whole decade. We had such a good weekend in Hamburg Arkansas. On Friday the high school football game. Then on Saturday a family picnic and that night dinner and a dance. William really enjoyed seeing all of his classmates and teachers. They all made me feel like I went to school with them. We can't wait to go back and next summer and see everyone again.



We had so much fun at the dinner. Maybe a little too much fun.


Me and the girls William and the boys.



William and his teacher and friends. Erik in the blue shirt is still one of his best friends. And that's his new baby boy.



Two of Erik's 3 kiddos.

And of course just getting to spend time with Mul (Williams grandmother) and his mom are always wonderful for us.