Cookies Cookies Cookies!!!

My friend from work has started a side business of gourmet cookies. She made Maddie and Alex some Alabama football helmets to help start the season off with. Her website is under my links.

Girly Girl!!

I love my baby girl sooo much. I am so thankful that God gave her to me. We have so much fun together we did facial tonight together and had a ball.

Double Trouble!!!

We went camping during Labor Day weekend and we had a ball....we knew so many people down there which even made it more fun. The only downer was my camera died and I only got like three pictures. The pictures that I snagged were of Alex and his friend Gage...alex plus gage equals double trouble at all times. Look at these two stud muffins strutting their stuff and getting into trouble by jumping in bubbling springs. When they got out of the water they had red muddy bottoms and nasty nasty feet. We learned ont this trip how to cook on a dutch oven which was very cool we made apple cobbler and served it with Blue Bell Vanilla ice cream...oh so yummy to my tummy. It was very easy to make.

Maddie's Master Piece

The G.A.'s all got together in the gym at church and had a praise and paint session. Maddie's art work came out like a Master Piece. She just had a ball doing this.

Fun with our Best Friends

We went to Lori, Dale, and Owens to have a picnic and let the kiddos play on the waterslide and trampoline.

Tree limbs are no Fun to cut down in 100 degree weather

This is the second tree limb that fell in two weeks. The first one fell and took out two large limbs of our neighbors tree while Luke was in Mexico and now a bigger limb was struck by lightening and fell from our pecan tree. It is giving our chain saws heck too. I think at one time we had three chainsaws stuck in on cut. We ended up having to say forget it after getting the majority of the leafy part up and off our neighbors shed. It was way to HOTTT to finish. So, needless to say our backyard looks like crap right now and our fence is still down waiting on a nice fall day to hurry and come so we can finish. But let me tell you we have a TON already of good smoking wood. Doesn't some smoked ribs sound delicious about right now? As Pat, Amy and Luke will tell you from their childhood days...Dad was in firewood heaven when he say all the wood we were cutting up. He was just beside himself. All I can say is that our frog togs saved us from getting heat exhaustion.

Alex's first day of K3

I was excited for my baby boy...he was ready to be a big boy and start school. (He couldn't wait to have to do his homework that night....Ha Ha!) I will have to remind him of this I am sure in about a week, after the new wears off. Isn't he cute??? His backpack is as big as he is, this is too funny. When I picked him up from school he was....sooo proud of himself, that he had gotten a smiley face and didn't cry. He actually met some friends a little boy named John David and a little blonde girl that sits next to him named Kaylee. He said that he met his "boy" friends by going up to them and saying "What's up dog"...now where in the world did he get this I am so not sure. Then he proceed to tell me that he had a bunch of cute girls in his class room. He is already checking the girls out, this really isn't good. However, I must say the ones he thinks are cute they are really pretty, so at least I know he has good taste. Aunt Amy, said in chapel he had two girls one on each side of him and they had their heads on his shoulders and their arms around him and Alex was just looking around like what in the heck are they doing? When Luke and I asked him about it he said well, Daddy I just wanted them to go to sleep on me like Mama lets me on Sunday nights do to her. He is going to be a mess. I do have to say that he knew that the bible story in chapel was about Adam and Eve being tempted by the what he called the "silly sneaky snake". Please go ahead and start praying for us. He was excited that Laren Grace, Matt, Owen, Anna Lee, and Kelsey were all going to his school with him. From my pictures...Laren Grace looks excited about school starting, Matt has the look of mmmm not sure if I am ready for this but I guess I have to go with it anyway and then Owen was like I am so not for this but will make it work.

Alex getting ready for his Big day in K3

Okay! We are praying this works, if we rewind a couple of years back...we all will remember this is the school that treaten to kick him out (which would have made him the first one to be kicked out at this school) for biting, so we went on and pulled him out. Anyway, we have opted to put him back in school to get him ready for big boy school and to get him around kids his own age . He has Ms. Nancy and Ms. Mickey as his teachers which are the same teachers Maddie had for k3, so this is good for Luke and I since they already know our family. Alex was ready to go for the most part. We had to take his school supplies to school prior to it starting, so we had to go through it all to make sure that we had everything on his mile long list. Which thank goodness we did. Anyway, look at him in the middle of all this mess. Also, he wanted me to take a picture like I did of Maddie in our tree before she me her teachers in k3 for the first time so both of them climbed the tree like Maddie did at age 3 and I took their picture.

Maddie's Fashion Show

This was a little crazy and unorganized but Maddie had fun, so it was worth it. She picked out an outfit and got to model it at Belk's in the Galleria. She was absolutely hip to be square. I couldn't get a good picture of her from where I was standing. Plus afterwards she got really sick and we had to take her home. We found out the next day she had strep (only three days after school had started) So this one picture is all I have.

Angel's Birthday!

Our sweet baby girl that is in the arms of Jesus had her 9th birthday, Thank you Jesus for giving us this precious gift. Our lives would not be the same with out having gone through losing her. I am so honored to have been hand picked by my Heavenly Father to be a mother. She made a difference in so many peoples lives just the short period of time she was hear, so I know that was her purpose in life and she furfilled God's will and that is why God called her on home. I miss her with my whole heart and can't wait to get to spend enteral life with her but I know she is exactly where she is suppose to be. Happy Birthday my sweet Angel, Mama, Daddy, Sissy and Brother love you.

Maddie's first day of Second Grade

Maddie loves school and being with her friends so she was soooo excited to get up and get going. We found out that she was going to be in Ms. Paris' room early the week before. She was ready to go see who all was going to be in her room with her that she knew. When she arrived and got settled in she realized that she had about 4 friends from previous years or church in class with her, which was good. Her best friend and cousin are both in the two rooms across the hall from her, so she gets to see them in the morning while they wait before school starts and are lined up sitting against the wall. I got to take and pick her up from school today and it was so fun being with her. Her first words to me as she opened the car door were "Mama, this is going to be a freakin awesome year, My teacher is fun, a Bama fan and a Christian." My heart smiled immediately and I thanked God for protecting my sweet baby girl and givng her a great mind set and teacher to start second grade off with. (by the way her desk is the first one next to the teachers desk...which is perfect for my little girl that thinks she needs to be the teachers pet and always ends up being the teachers pet...which is a good thing).

Back to School Church Party

Oh Yeah! Loads of Fun. We all met at church Friday night and had a yummy to my tummy pizza supper then we played lots of games, had two Bible /worship sessions and then we all got in our sleeping bags for a HUGE sleep over. Alex of course thought he was suppose to stay too, so Brother Steven approved for him to stay with Daddy. Mama was the whimp and went home to sleep. I don't think I was the whimp I think I was the smart one. I bet I felt the best the next morning and my bed sure was comfortable and nice and roomy without all my sleeping buddies being there. I sure did get cold and lonely being there by myself, so I was up before sunrise and got to church before the day got started. We had a wonderful southern breakfast and then off to Bible study we went. Our music rocked the the sancutary. Then we all went and got our bathing suites on and went outside for some water fun. After we all dried off we eat lunch and went home. It was outstanding weekend.