NAP TIME

OH HOW I LOVE NAP TIME AROUND HERE. I JUST PUT BOTH KIDS IN THEIR BEDS AND THE GO RIGHT TO SLEEP BY THEMSELVES AND THEN MOMMY GETS 2 HOURS OF ALONE TIME TO CATCH UP ON HOUSEWORK, BLOGGING, TIME WITH MY HUBBY (WHEN HES HOME ) MY SHOWS, WORKING OUT, GETTING A SHOWER( YES SOME DAYS I DON'T GET A SHOWER UNTIL NAP TIME) OR EVEN A GOOD BOOK. ITS SO NICE TO HAVE THAT TIME! I AM 100% DEDICATED TO MY CHILDREN ALMOST EVERY SECOND OF EVERYDAY BUT THOSE TWO HOURS MEANS SO MUCH TO ME! ITS LIKE I CAN JUST TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND BREATH! MY KIDS ARE REALLY GOOD KIDS BUT CHASING AROUND ANY ALMOST 2 AND 3 YEAR OLD ALL DAY EVERY DAY IS HARD WORK. I'M NOT COMPLAINING BECAUSE I LOVE MY JOB AND I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR A 9-5 JOB ANY DAY! I AM 100% DEDICATED TO MY CHILDREN AND STAYING HOME WITH THEM UNTIL THEY GET IN SCHOOL. WE WILL SACRIFICE ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING FOR ME TO BE HERE WITH THEM. WHEN THEY GET IN SCHOOL THEN YES MY HUSBAND WILL PROBABLY PUT ME BACK TO WORK : (  THOSE TWO SMILES ARE WORTH EVERY THING! CHILDREN ARE THE GREATEST BLESSING WE RECEIVE FROM OUR LORD!

ALREADY?

 ITS SO HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS TINY PRECIOUS LIL BOY IS ALREADY THREE AND READY TO START SCHOOL! WHERE DID THE TIME GO? MAN, DID ME AND GENE'S LIVES CHANGE SO MUCH WHEN HE WAS BORN! BEING PARENTS IS AMAZING.

SO, WE WERE HOPING TO GET CARTER INTO PRESCHOOL THIS MONTH BUT SINCE THE WAITING LIST WAS SO LONG THEY CALLED AND TOLD US HE WOULD HAVE TO WAIT AND START IN AUGUST. WE ALREADY HAVE THE APPLICATION SO IM JUST WAITING TO GET A FEW FORMS SIGNED AND THEN HOPEFULLY HE WILL GET IN. WE ARE WANTING HIM TO GO TO FIRST BAPTIST IN COVINGTON. ITS CALLED TIPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY. NOT ONLY IS IT A PRESCHOOL BUT ALSO THEY HAVE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 2ND GRADE NOW AND THEN THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO ADD ANOTHER GRADE EACH YEAR ALL THE WAY UP TO 6TH! GENE AND I REALLY WANTED TO PUT OUR CHILDREN IN PRIVATE SCHOOL AND ARE HOPING TO BE ABLE TO WHEN THE TIME COMES ALONG!

SO THATS WHATS HAPPENING IN OUR LIVES AT THE MOMENT! GOD HAS TRULY BLESSED OUR FAMILY!

I LOVE THEM !!!

NOT SO GOOD PICTURE OF THE KIDS BUT GOOD ONE OF GENE AND I ! THESE THREE ARE MY WORLD AND I LOVE THEM SO VERY MUCH!

MISSED VERY MUCH!

TWO YEARS AGO MONDAY, I LOST MY FAVORITE UNCLE. I KNOW HES WITH JESUS NOW AND HES NOT SUFFERING BUT ITS STILL HARD LIVING WITHOUT HIM! YOU ARE MISSED AND LOVED SO VERY MUCH, DICKIE! I KNOW YOU ARE RAISING HELL UP THERE. CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU AGAIN! LOVE YOU!!! XOXO

HELD BY NATALIE GRANT

Who told us we'd be rescued
What has changed and
Why should we be saved from nightmares
Were asking why this happens to us
Who have died to live, it's unfair

This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was that when everything fell
We'd be held

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

 JUST WANTED TO SAY CONGRATS TO THE AUBURN TIGERS FOR WINNING THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR! THEY WORKED HARD AND GENE'S 15 YEAR DEDICATION TO THIS TEAM FINALLY PAID OFF THIS YEAR! THIS WAS ONE HAPPY HOUSEHOLD COME 11:30 MONDAY NIGHT! IT WAS A WILD RIDE BUT SO WORTH IT! THEY DESERVED IT!!!

ONE LAST TIME

 YESTERDAY SAM CAME OVER TO PLAY AGAIN WITH THE KIDS FOR A FEW HOURS. WE TOOK THE KIDS OUT ONE LAST TIME TO PLAY IN THE SNOW BEFORE IT ALL MELTS AWAY. THEY HAD FUN MAKING SNOW ANGELS AND HAVING A SNOW BALL FIGHT!

FIRST SNOW 2011

 SUNDAY NIGHT WE GOT OUR FIRST SNOW OF THE YEAR THAT AMOUNTED TO ANYTHING. THE KIDS WERE SOOO EXCITED. THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING AND WAITING FOR SOME SNOW TO STICK ON THE GROUND FOR THEM TO PLAY IN. FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING WE GOT UP AND ATE BREAKFAST THEN GOT READY TO HEAD OUTSIDE TO PLAY. NOW, IF YOU HAVE TWO SMALL KIDS YOU KNOW ITS NOT AN EASY TASK TO GET ALL THREE OF YOU READY TO GO OUT TO PLAY IN THE SNOW. ITS 2 SNOW SUITS, 2 PAIRS OF GLOVES, 2 LAYERS F CLOTHES UNDER THE SNOW SUIT, 2 PAIRS OF SOCKS FOR EACH, HATS, BOOTS, JACKETS, AND THEN THE 2 LAYERS OF CLOTHES FOR YOU, JACKET, 2 PAIRS OF SOCKS, BOOTS, GLOVES, SCARF, HAT, AND OF COURSE THE CAMERA!!! MADE ME TIRED JUST TYPING ALL OF THAT. BUT WE MANAGED AND HAD A BLAST PLAYING IN THE SNOW. ENJOY OUR PICTURES.

 WHEN GENE GOT HOME FROM DUCK HUNTING THAT MORNING WE HEADED OVER TO MY MOMS TO PLAY IN THE SNOW WITH THEM AND EAT SOME YUMMY STEW.

 AND OF COURSE WE HAD A SNOW BALL FIGHT THAT GENE JIMMY AND CASEY REALLY GOT INTO!

 AND THEN WE HEADED IN TO TAKE NAPS AND BE LAZY.

THANK YOU LORD FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL SNOW! I'M ALWAYS AMAZED BY YOUR CREATIONS!!!

PRAYING FOR SNOW

HERE ARE JUST A FEW CUTE PICTURES I GOT OF THE KIDS TODAY. THEY LOOK SO CUTE WITH THEIR OVERALLS ON! WE ARE HOPING TO GET SNOW TOMORROW NIGHT AND ENOUGH FOR THE KIDS TO PLAY IN! ALL WE CAN DO IS PRAY AND WAIT! HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

LOVES HER AUBIE!

ZOO TIME

CARTER HAS BEEN ASKING EVERYDAY FOR 3 MONTHS STRAIGHT IF WE COULD GO TO THE ZOO. THE KID LOVES THE ZOO. SO I SAW THE WEATHER WAS FINALLY GOING TO BE IN THE 50'S TODAY SO I DECIDED THIS WAS GOING TO BE MY ONE SHOT FOR US TO GO AND NOT FREEZE. GENE DECIDED TO TAKE A VACATION DAY SO HE COULD JOIN US! WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME! IT WASNT TOO COLD AND WE JUST REAXED AND TOOK OUR TIME AND REALLY ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE! ENJOY OUR PICTURES!

HAVING FUN ON MOMMYS SHOULDERS

WATCHING THE PANDA BEAR

BEAUTIFUL

LOVE THIS PIC OF CARTER

SHE THOUGHT THIS WAS A NANNY(HORSE)

DADDY PETTING THE GOAT

CARTER AND DADDY

LOVE MY BABIES

SHE WAS SAYING

"WAR EAGLE"

WE LOVE THE POLAR BEARS

DADDY AND HIS BABIES

OF COURSE THE FIRST THING WE HAD TO DO WHEN WE GOT TO THE ZOO WAS EAT LUNCH WITH THE MONKEYS! CARTERS FAVORITE!

WATCHING FOR THE SEALS!

THANK YOU LORD FOR BLESSING US WITH THIS TIME TO SPEND WITH OUR FAMILY!

ENJOY!

JUST A CUTE PICTURE I GOT BEFORE CHURCH THIS MORNING! ENJOY!

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! ME AND THE KIDS SPENT THE NIGHT WITH EM AND ADAM LST NIGHT. THE KIDS STAYED UP UNTIL 12:30 WITH US. I CANT BELEIVE THEY MADE IT ALL NIGHT. WE ALL SLEPT IN THIS MORNING TIL 9:30 AND THEN ADAM COOKED US BREAKFAST. WE CAME HOME GOT SHOWERS AND HEADED TO MY GRANDMOTHERS FOR OUR TRADITIONAL GOOD LUCK AND WEALTH LUNCH. IT WAS SOOO YUMMY TOO!!! THE KIDS ARE NAPPING WHILE GENE WATCHES FOOTBALL AND I CATCH UP ON SOME BLOGGING, WHICH I NEED TO BE NAPPING TOO BUT BLOGGING IS SO MUCH MORE FUN! WE ARE HEADING BACK TO MOMS LATER TO HAVE GAME NIGHT WITH THE FMILY AGAIN! I LOVE GAME NIGHT! WE USE TO DO IT AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH A COUPLE YEARS AGO BUT WE DONT GET TO DO IT AS OFTEN NOW.

THESE ARE JUST A COUPLE PICTURES I PULLED UP FROM A COUPLE YEARS AGO. WELL THE TOP PICTURE IS ONE OF THE FIRST FEW PICTURES GENE AND I EVER TOOK TOGETHER. THAT PICTURE WAS FROM MY 21ST BIRTHDAY. WOW HOW TIME FLIES! THAT NIGHT WAS SO MUCH FUN THOUGH. THE BOTTOM PICTURE IS FROM NEW YEARS EVE 2007. CARTER WAS JUST BORN ABOUT 3 WEEKS PRIOR. WE WERE HEADING TO MR BOBBY BLANKINSIPS 50TH BIRTHDAY PARTY THAT NIGHT AT OAK GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH.

I DONT EVER STICK TO MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS SO I DONT KNOW WHY I EVER MAKE THEM BUT REALLY THIS YEAR I WANT TO LOSE AT LEAST 15 POUNDS BEFORE MY SISTERS WEDDING IN APRIL. AND WITH MY MOM AND SISTER BOTH GOING TO THE GYM EVERY DAY, MAYBE THAT WILL MODIVATE ME TO GET ON MY TREADMILL MORE. GENE HAS LOST ABOUT 15 POUNDS IN THE PAST 2 MONTHS OR SO AND HES JUST BEEN CUTTING BACK ON WHAT HE EATS SO MAYBE HE CAN HELP ME OUT A LIL. AND MY MOM HAS LOST OVER 30 POUNDS IN THE PAST 3 MONTHS SO I KNOW SHE CAN MODIVATE ME A LIL TOO.

 I ALSO PLAN ON READING MORE, BEING A BETTER MOM, WIFE, SISTER, DAUGHTER, AND FRIEND, READING MY BIBLE MORE, MAKING WISER CHOICES WITH MY MONEY AND TRY NOT TO SHOP AS MUCH, AND JUST ENJOY LIFE MORE IN THIS NEXT YEAR!

WE HOPE EVERYONE HAS A BLESSED 2011!