Birthday Cake #1

Mommy's first birthday

Well, we finally celebrated my birthday on Friday. We had some homemade chili that Daddy made and then some yummy cake..thanks Publix! Anyways, we had a nice day with my family and Will loved the cake! I got some free time to work on a project while Gigi and Uncle Robby watched Will and Ben. Daddy has been working on his garden for this spring. Hopefully we won't gain too much weight eating cake because we have 3 more to go this month!

Happy 2009!

We hope everyone has a wonderful 2009. We pray for a healthy and happy one. This month we will have 3 birthdays at our house...Will is turning 3, Daddy is turning 31 and Ben is turning 1! We look forward to lots of cake! We are celebrating Mommy's 31st birthday tomorrow..a little late but we were out of town on the 27th.

Daddy and Mommy had a nice dinner out with friends at Dolce last night. It was very good. It was great to go somewhere "fancy" and have a break from the kiddos. Thanks to Gi and Pop for the babysitting!

Ben is running a temperature this morning and is acting puny...Will is finally back to his normal self. Hopefully we will not have to go the doctor!

Will

Here are some pics of Will having fun outside. He is feeling better today but still is not completely himself. We spent the morning running errands and had lunch out at Jason's Deli. Will helped Daddy work on his future garden for this spring.

Christmas pics...

Well our Christmas Day was pretty good considering Will was not feeling well. As of today (Monday) he is still sick ;(

Ben and Will both got 5 gifts from Santa and a shared present. Ben got a little riding toy, a singing seahorse, Noah's ark, a farm noise book, and a Sesame Street ball. Will got a CAT excavator, a wooden birthday cake that he can cut and decorate, a magna doodle, Thomas domino set and a thomas train car. Needless to say he was really excited about his excavator but the big gift that the boys will share was a John Deere gator. Will had a blast riding it around the yard.

Santa did leave one surprise for the whole family and that was a blow-up snowman in the front yard. Will had told every Santa that he saw that he wanted a snowman..so Santa left us a big one!

Mommy and Daddy did not exchange gifts this year... Daddy had bought himself a new flash for mommy's camera (a mother's day gift) and Mommy got an I-pod touch a while back when her PDA broke.

The boys got some really neat gifts from Gigi, Pop, and Uncle Bub (puzzles, a set of paint rollers, bath roller paint, books, cars, a crawl through tunnel...and more) They spent all Christmas day with us.

They both loved their gifts from Meme and Pop...a little piano and a Thomas Lego set.

We just got back from a short trip to Mississippi and Will had a blast riding Nanny's "big" gator with Daddy, Mommy, Meme, and Papa Lee ( we all had turns).

Ben is 11 Months Old!

Ben is 11 Months old today. Big news for this month is that he is walking everywhere! He just started turning around while standing independently this week. It is so funny because he picks up the biggest toys and then carries them while he walks. He loves to follow Will around.

Ben is a very chatty little guy and will continue to "talk" until he has someone's attention. Hisfavorite person is my brother. If Uncle Robby is in the room Ben will walk past his daddy and me to get to him. It is the funniest thing. I have never seen a baby take to anyone like that before.

Just one more month and Ben will be tearing into some cake! It has been a wild ride with 2 kiddos this past year. I know this next year they will continue to keep me on my toes!

Christmas

Well our Christmas Eve did not go as planned... We went over to Gigi and Pop's for our annual Christmas Eve lunch of boiled shrimp. Will threw-up about 15 minutes before we were going to eat and was pitful for the rest of the visit. We then drove home for naps and we did not want to wake Will so we missed church. We thought we would brave it and go to a Christmas Eve get together that my family has been taking part in since 1984! Will loved running around with the older kids but before I knew it he told me he wanted to go home and turned down a cookie! Well needless to say he threw- up again! We then left and came home for a bath. Will went to bed quickly.

Chistmas morning Will was not feeling well at all. He even laid down to take a nap without any coaxing. He did go outside for a little while to play with some of his new gifts. He was feeling a little better by the end of the evening when we opened our stockings.

Gigi, Pop and Uncle Robby came over at 8:30 AM and stayed until 6:30PM. We had a huge breakfast and a good ham dinner. Daddy and Gigi did all the cooking! Everyone enjoyed their gifts. Will told everyone that it was Jesus' birthday and he even made a "cake" with one of his gifts.

Ben had a great first Christmas. He was the first boy up so we took him out to see his presents. He "talked" to them and then of course put them in his mouth. He loved all the wrapping paper and walked around with a animal from his new Noah's ark set in is mouth.

Throwing-up aside it was a wonderful Christmas and I got the gifts I asked for last year....for Will to be free of his ITP and to the have a safe delivery and a healthy baby boy in January.

Oh...Will's dollar store gifts for Mommy...a caulk gun and a bag of rocks!
I will post pics later.

Merry Christmas!

We wanted to wish everyone a blessed Christmas!