Happy (Very Belated) New Year!

New Year's weekend was busy and fun. William's grandparents treated us to a night in Callaway Gardens and the festival of lights. We enjoyed seeing all the Christmas lights and riding on the train. We stopped by the lake on the way out and Thompson ran and ran and got soaking wet in the lake (I didn't get a picture). Thanks to Daddy for keeping up with him!

New Year’s Eve (Saturday) we went to the Zac Brown Band concert with Auntie and her friends (Granmom kept our boys). ZBB was William and I's first concert together and we had a great time. However, the opening bands were terrible and we should have showed up when ZBB came on. They rocked it and played all their great songs!
On New Year's Day we went to church and then spent the day hanging out as a family! Looking forward to 2012!! 

Christmas 2011

Christmas morning (Sunday) we woke up and had breakfast and then went to church. We enjoyed church and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
 

After church, we met TLO, Pops, McCord, & Hoppop at Garrisons for Christmas lunch and it was fantastic! After lunch, we opened Christmas presents!! The boys got blocks and books and a GA Aquarium pass! William and I gave each other tickets to the Zac Brown Band NYE concert. This past Christmas (and always) William and I were grateful for eachother and our healthy boys. We are so blessed at how far Jonathan has come in particular.  

Christmas night we went to the Dyer’s  house and played games. On, Monday we went to the Macy’s Pink Pig with TLO. Thompson enjoyed even more than last year.

 

Thanks to Thompsons and Dyers for boys' Christmas gifts:

Christmas Eve

We spent Friday and Christmas eve with the Monks. The adults had burgers on Friday (after the boys went to sleep )and then William, Mary Beth and I headed downtown Rome. Christmas-Eve morning, Thompson decided to wake Mommy and Daddy up at 4:30am asking for Granmom and Granddaddy and Auntie & their dogs. So, we cuddled and watched a movie to let everyone else sleep to a "normal" time. We had breakfast and opened presents. Thompson loved his car rug, cars 2, dinosaurs and Jonathan loved his ornament and cars!

The adults enjoyed a Christmas Eve lunch (while boys rested) that Granmom made and it was wonderful. We all dressed up for Church. The boys made it halfway through church and then Granddaddy took them for a walk.  The candle light service was lovely. We enjoyed spending Christmas eve in their new home!

Granmom and her boys

 Granddady and us

Auntie and J-man 

TWM playing with his gifts 

Thompson "loving" his brother 

My 28th birthday

I turned 28 this year and by all my friends’ standards...I'm young. It is interesting that my friends tend to be a greater (notice I didn't say older) age than I am. It never bothers me and I think what matters most is how you act and your stage of life! Anyway, I enjoy being a young-mom and having energy and look forward to a life where I can be active when my boys go off to school and get paid for a job again. Once again, I turned my birth-DAY into a birth-week. William says, I'm a pro at this! I had a fun birthday week. On Friday, we had William's work Christmas Holiday party, and then on Saturday the Monk's took us out to celebrate Wade's 60th and my 28th. We share the same birthday! On Sunday, we took advantage of a Scout Mob and enjoyed dinner just the two of us at Vinings Fish Co. The food was good; service was slow but we enjoyed just catching up.  T-Lo came in town to help us that weekend since we had three events! Thanks t-lo the boys love being with you! On my actual birthday (Wed), William and the boys took me to Taqueria del Sol. The food was great but the guy who took our order was really cranky. On Thursday, we had a ladies birthday celebration for those of us celebrating Dec. birthday at Noche. It was great fun and lots of laughs! So, that was December!!! Thank you to my parents, William, monks for my birthday gifts and dinner. I'm very blessed to have two healthy boys, a fantastic husband, and great friends!

We took the boys to see Santa at Lacey's work and as you can see they don't like Santa! Thompson kept saying, No Santa. He didn't want presents from him. I think he had figured out...I'll be happy with just the ones from our family! Our Elf Magic Elf did make it to see Santa!

Where did 2011 go??

 I've been MIA on the blog front; our life took over! But, I want to back-track and talk about the Month of November:
We celebrated Thanksgiving at my Grandparents with my entire (Henry) family! They have a town home in Old Beau, NC. It was so beautiful in the mountains and the boys had a blast. We stayed with my grandparents and they rented a separate cabin for my extended family! Thompson became BFF with Jessie. He would ask for her all weekend! My grandparents hosted us to lunch at their country club and it was delicious! Thompson did well thanks to my early birthday present, the Kindle Fire. He was happy watching veggie tales! If you had asked me three years ago, if I would ever let my kid watch TV in a restaurant? I would have answered with a firm, NO! Fast forward to fine china and an all boy who isn't a fan of sitting still...Thank you, kindle (and my parents for getting it for me). Before you judge us, we don't let him watch TV every time when we go out; only at times where fine china and/or crowed country club...etc!
Anyway, I digress...we enjoyed playing cards, sitting by the fire, catching up with my brothers, and spending the day in Sparta, NC. We went back to Charlotte and celebrated Christmas since we would be in Rome and Thomas and Jessie and Trevor would be in Maryland. Jessie Thomas got me the cutest
JCREW top and Trevor got William a great MK shirt. The boys of course were spoiled with a Patagonia jacket, new video monitor, movies and toys!

We drove back to Atlanta on Saturday (our 6th wedding anniversary)! Our tradition has been to get the tree up the weekend of Thanksgiving so we put it up on Sunday. I love to have the tree up as long as possible!

Here are some pictures of our Thanksgiving Celebration:

Hunting Trip



 

 Henry Tree

 

 

 

 Thanksgiving Lunch