2 years old!

Wow I can hardly believe we have a 2 year old. We celebrated the whole month of June it seems, We had one party here in Ga at a local park, for my family and a few friends, and another party in West Virginia for Toby's out of town family. It was such big fun to celebrate Blaine's first two years. He is such a blessing to us and time has surley flown by so quickly.
One thing we are so proud of you for is being fully potty trained before TWO. You love wearing big boy undies and even wear them at night. It's so funny to hear a toilet randomly flushing in the house. You just had a big vocabuarly and sentence explosion. You are putting more words together and you can understand so many new things now. You love blaming things on the dogs and we think that is so cute. You started singing songs and even though you may not know all the words, you know the tune. You love to go swimming and play ball outside. You are getting tanner by the day! You love to give big hugs and kisses and have the sweetest most laid back personality. You have made new friends at our new church. We just joined our FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH and its the first time we have left you with anyone other than family. You have so much fun in your class and have starting saying "God is great". It's so rewarding to see you learning about and loving Jesus.
Here are a few of our favorite pictures from the birthday month of June..... Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long.







































here is a comparison pic of the same exact park on his 1stbirthday vs the 2nd birthday.....

23 Months

Dearest Son,
In just one short month you will be two years old. I can't believe how much you have grown and how fast time has passed us by. It is true what they say, I truly can't imagine life before you.You weigh 32 lbs and are 37" tall. You are a big hugger and kisser. You show us love like no other. You love to jump and run and play, You are near potty trained except for those few times that you blame it on the dogs. You can name your colors. You like to call daddy by his name "Toby" because we still laugh at it. Although I think it hurts daddy's heart a little when you don't say dadda instead. You love to kick the ball, and I bet you will love soccer one day. You also love to throw it too, so there's really no limit on what your dreams could be one day. Your favorite food that you will knock someone over for is olives, green or black it doesn't matter. You love almost all veggies and yes you like meat too. You love to watch Veggie Tales and Blue's clues. You love reading books and swimming outside. You love to jump and climb and hide from us. You sing your own songs, you have your own rythm that's for sure. You've had your first haircut already, even though it's grown back. You can open doors, climb stairs and randomly will get things out of the fridge. ;) You love your friends, cousins and neighbors and you will ask us (name their name) about everyone you know nearly everyday with a look on your face as is "where are they"?
You really just light up our world, and I'm so thankful to call you my son.
Love, Mama

20 months...wow

You should all fire me, I am the worst keeper-upper lately. but I finally have a working laptop. woohoo.
Our Blainie is now 20 months old and growing like a weed. He can do all sorts of snazzy new things and we are such blessed proud parents.
He can now repeat or try to repeat nearly everything we say.
Tries to sing his abc's but they are never in any kind of recongnizable order. It's kinda like A,E,O,D that kinda cuteness.
Is getting his canine teeth in, they're just now breaking the gums.
Can run, climb, throw and kick a ball, tries to do the motions to Itsy Bitsy Spider. Knows the difference between rain, sunshine, and snow. Also knows the difference between cold and hot. Loves to point out birds, planes, dogs, bunnies & kitties. Eats with a spoon and fork. Loves to dip things into dips to eat. Calls our dogs by name: Asia and "Bean Bean" for Bentley. way too cute. Has to be snuggled in tight at night in order to fall asleep.--I'm still loving this! Sleeps thru the night, but always wakes up early. Started last month using his potty, we're still working on it. He will often poop in it more so than pee pee.
A few cute things he's said lately were....
One day he said mama--rain, and so I came in to see what was he was talking about since I knew it was a sunny day and he had shook his sippy cup in the air so much that it was indeed raining milk.
Then another time he pointed to "bean bean" bentley our lab's eye and said MOLE. you know the dirty crustyness that can get in the corner of your dogs eye. yep, he thought it was a mole. pretty funny stuff. We can never get enough of this kid. He is the best thing that has ever happened!

Christmas in Pictures

I promise, I am still alive. Sorry I think thats been the longest blogging break ever. My laptop and desktop have had some crazy viruses that took a few gurus to fix. But we had a wonderful Christmas. I promise to update with an 18 months (soon to be 19 months) Blaine post soon. But I hope you all are enjoying this new 2010. We sure are. Hope you enjoy our Christmas in Pictures.

Santa baby....

We went and seen Santa the day before Thanksgiving and while you may look at this picture and think, awww look hes smiling, how sweet..... literally 1 minute before this picture was taken, it was not pretty. I bet your wondering why I'm in the photo? um yea that was the only way it was gonna happen. :) Santa was very nice, and there was no line this year, we just walked right on up to see him.
I thought it was really cute to share with you a few reminiscent photos of my brother and I with Santa, just to show you a good laugh.


Pretty cute huh. lol
Here are 2 pics I took the day we seen santa, I seen those beautiful holly bushes and had to take a few.








Look for a post coming your way soon. Wendy took some amazing Christmas pictures of us recently at Indian Springs!!

HAPPY Thanksgiving everyone!!

I am so thankful for many many things! Especially my family! Happy thanksgiving to all of you my dear family and friends! I have so many pictures to catch up and post, but I'll just choose a few here now. Blaine is growing so much and his personality is really coming out. Its so neat to see him communicating with us and he can understand so many things now. Watching him grow has been so amazing!





Please Pray for my dad, He starts his area radiation for his cancer treatment this upcomming week. He has Prostate Cancer and had the radiation seed therapy, and now he will have the area treatments for 7 weeks straight, 5 days a week. Pray that these treatments work and that he will soon be cancer free!





My Nephew Trevor had birthday recently he is the big 8 years old!!

Isnt he a cutie!
Here is my brother and Annie with the birthday boy!

Here are 2 pics I took of sweet Ava recently. I am so excited that I get to keep her this weekend. Blaine will have a ball with her!

Them Eberly's

I love them Eberly's Oh how I have missed this girl! and her lil girl! I am so glad they are back in Georgia now, for a great while. They have lived in Alaska for too long! Lori and Kenzie stayed with us a few days while Travis was in Vegas for work and we had a great time. We went to the Yellow River Game Ranch and to the park and on several lil get outta of the house trips. Here are a ton of pics below.





These deer were so sweet and amazing. It was so great to be able to love on them.








see how sweet they were!















these bears could do tricks! see my video at the bottom!
















































































































Its getting longer!!