Weekend of Visiting

This weekend was filled with spending time with family and friends. I had a baby shower I gave a good friend of mine. Some of Jonathan's family came to visit.

The baby shower was for Shannon, a friend i have had since high school. I think the shower was pretty and fun. I have never claimed to be a girly girl. But i have to say what i did turn out pretty good. I made some BLUE punch which was cute and good. I also ordered the cake, mmmmm. I think Shannon enjoyed herself and she got lots of stuff. Congrats Shannon and Josh on your upcoming arrival, Caleb. My mom did the monogramming on the outfit and bib, she is good.

Jonathan's family came up to see BJ. But we enjoyed seeing them also. Grandma, Cousin Elisa and Fred came to visit. It was fun to see them. I didn't get a whole lot of pictures, i tried to enjoy the time with them. Jackson loves to go over to the "Gators" house. In these pictures he is playing with the Disney World Monorail they gave him. The Gators got the monorail at Disney World when we all went this past September and gave it to him for his Birthday. It is pretty impressive and they love watching him enjoy it.

Valentine's Day 2010

We had a wonderful valentine's. We just enjoyed being with each other. I love my family!!


Jackson got Thomas Puzzle and DVD, gloves, candy and a pound puppy.
Juliette got a play hammer, a book, sunglasses, pj's, and suckers.






Yes that is Jackson is Christmas PJs. LOL!!

Snow Day

Living in Alabama we don't see a whole lot of snow. So when we do get snow its a big deal. Well it snowed Friday, last week and the kids' school closed, so we had a snow day at home. We didn't get a lot but enough to play in and enjoy and it was gone the next day. (Mississippi got A LOT more then us).

It was snowing pretty hard. Juliette wanted to go outside and see what it was.

Trying to eat the snow, even Juliette got in on the action.

Happy Valentine's Day

I hope everyone has a wonderful HEART Day. We love you! Kisses from our family to yours!!!

Changes to BLOG

Well, Jonathan and I have discussed rather or not to make this blog private. BUT I am still up in the air on this issue. BUT we have decide to take some precautions. You may or may not notice you can no longer copy photos off the blog. I don't mind for people I know to have pictures of my kids so if you would like a pictures please email me (or leave a comment in the comment section) and I will be more then happy to send it to you. I have also installed controls to be able to see who is viewing the site (behind the scenes). I know this is paranoia but I have just heard way to many horror stories lately. This is not meant to scare people from viewing the site just a way to protect the family. In the end we may decide to go private but I will let everyone know at that point. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks for understanding.

John Mayer Concert

We went to the John Mayer Concert last night, we being Jonathan, myself, my mom and dad. We had a good time. But it also proves I can't party like i use not that i use, a lot). WOW it was loud. The concert started at 8pm with the opening act and John came out at 9:30. Ok, let me just say usually by 9:30 I am in bed or getting ready for bed. JM sang mostly his new stuff, so it was not what i expected. It was good but he just didn't play a lot that i could sing along with. When i go to concert I love to sing along, that's the best part. Jonathan enjoyed it more then any of us. Mom liked it but dad was less them impressed. We had good seats, we sat on the floor row 21, so we were close (the pictures don't really show that). But being on the floor of course you don't sit, so unless i knew the song i was sitting (and was keep company by my less then impressed dad). We got home after midnight. Funny part: Jackson sleep in the bed with Jonathan and I, so mom and dad could have his room. I turned the monitor off in his room and thought i turned it off in ours also. Juliette is getting a cold so i figured she would whimper/cry off and on all night. The couple of times i went into check on her, after hearing a cry, she was a sleep so i covered her back up. Well this morning at 6 am I hear a cry and I go in and rock her and then put her in our bed. So the whole family is in our bed awake and playing. Well about 5 minutes later we hear a baby cry, at which point Jonathan looks at the kids then me and says "What the he!! is that?" Well I had not turned the monitor off I had changed the channel. So all those baby's cries I heard was not Juliette. So needless to say i had very little sleep last night and am exhausted.

Oh another funny part. During the intermission Jonathan and I started talking about the Dr who delivered Juliette (Dr Hudson). I just love him, he is so sweet. Then I looked up and there he stood (yes Dr Hudson). I waved thinking he will not know who I am but he recognized me and waved back and asked where the baby was. haha. I immediately laughed thinking that is his standard question. Because let's face it he delivers a lot of babies. I asked my mom if she recognized him and she said no and i told her that is the man who delivered Juliette, she laughed (laughing because he looks younger then he is). When the concert was over he walked up and hugged my neck and introduced his wife to me. To avoid any uncomfortable pause I introduced myself by name to her, because let's face it again he has a lot of patient and what makes me any different, plus come on I had my clothes on, LOL!!!!!(this is suppose to be funny so i hope you are laughing). If you haven't figured out my Doctor is on the young side, I think he is 37.

Oh and I forgot my camera. I guess if it doesn't involve the kids the camera is a distant thought. Mom got some good video on her phone, i just have to figure out how i can get them. So here are the limited pics I got with my cell phone. I look fat but i am blaming that on the angle and the camera. Believe it or not we didn't drink, just goes to show my theory on blame it on the camera.

Oldie but a Goodie

This is Jackson at 14 month (Feb 2007). Jonathan says we should sell it to Hallmark. I love it, it is one of my favorite picture of him, ever!! I tried to recreate with Juliette but didn't work. ENJOY!

"Make me a HEART"

To start Heart Week off. I thought I would share a story/symbol of love. Jackson is constantly striving for Jonathan and I praise, which i hope we give. Lately little Mr. Jackson has been getting in trouble at school (lord be with us.) He can't seem to sit still or keep quiet. So we have started giving him a quarter in the mornings and if he is good during the day he gets to keep his quarter and put it in his reward container. After he has earned 10 quarters he gets to go to the store and get something (he will decide within reason). Well we have been working on getting the 10 quarters for 2 weeks now and we have only gotten 6 (so out of the 10 school days he has keep his quarter 6 times, 60% take rate, LOL). Well the other day he finally got a quarter after a couple of bad days and so I was praising him and he looks at me and said "Mommy make me a HEART." This is our special way of showing my love for him and he shows back to me, I do this a lot but at that time he said it something clicked in my head. The click was, this simple gesture means the world to him and it shows him that i love him and am proud of him. The shape of the heart is made by putting your thumb and index finger together in a curve form. I try to tell him I love him no mater if he is good or bad. If i haven't said this enough I LOVE MY BABIES.

Here is a picture of him doing it back to me. Sorry for the poor quality, the picture is my cell phone.

At the end of each day I say a silent prayer as I walk into daycare that Jackson will have earned his quarter. I never thought I would ever pray to GOD for a quarter, LOL, but I'll take what I can get!

THANK YOU!!

Well I finally got around to sending thank you notes out from the kid's birthdays (back in December). But at least i did it! I took Juliette's pics myself and Cathy put together the layout. I was very pleased. Can anyone believe my babies are 4 and 1? Thanks to everyone for celebrating the kid's birthday.