This Past Weekend

This past weekend I had the opportunity to see my brother Jamie star in the play "Winnie the Pooh"at North Greenville College. It is really nice to see him do something he loves AND he does it quite well. He was Piglet and really was very entertaining (as he always has been). Here are some pics from the play...

Also this past weekend, we borrowed a jump toy from Clay's sister. Charlie had so much fun jumping that he wore himself out... He would jump jump jump and then start to close his eyes and fall asleep on the spot. Here are some pics of that...

We had a lot of fun watching him do that over and over

(don't worry, we only let him do it a few times before we put him to bed).

Okay I will leave you with some pics of the boys... Happy Monday...

Technical Difficulties

I have things to share but I am having problems getting the pictures on my computer. For some reason, unknown to me, my computer is telling me it can read the pictures on the card. It always has been able to read them so who knows what is going on. As soon as I get this figured out, I will share the what we have been doing...

ALSO, if you didn't know, I am going some where very special this week... to the...

OPRAH SHOW!!!...

Yep! I have been trying for years to get tickets and two weeks ago I found out I got tickets! The show is actually being taped in L.A. for an After the Oscars taping and Clay and I fly out on Saturday morning! So AWESOME. More on that later...

Where Have We Been???... CHARLESTON

Yep, not much blogging gets done when we are in Charleston. It seems that with some help I would have extra time to blog but all I want to do with my extra time is SLEEP! Let me just do a quick summary of our time in Charleston and then leave you with some pics...

1. The boys are now 5 months old.

2. Miller has rolled from his back to stomach... several times.

3. I took the boys out of their swaddles (which was HUGE because I feared doing it, but they are sleeping very well without it). They sleep until about 7 each morning.

4. My brother and his wife had a baby girl... (got to the hospital and had her in 20 min with one push and NO doctor)

5. I spent my first night away from the boys (Clay and I went and stayed at the Charleston Place for one night for V day)

6. Miller sucks his thumb.

7. Clay and I went to my brother to get our teeth cleaned and checked out. We were re taught the importance of good dental health and are excited about keeping it up! (we do have some cavities but nothing too major)

Okay, that was the gist of our trip. I LOVE being able to be home and see everyone that I love so much. I often think of what it would be like to live in Charleston, but when I go back, I realize that it is so special when we come to visit that I actually like it this way. Sure I would love to have day to day experiences with my parents and grandparents and brothers and cousins BUT visiting often makes the time I spend with them even so much more special!

Well here are a few pics from the week and a half I was there with the boys...

Eden Grace was only about an hour and a half old in this

picture. She hadn't even gotten her bath yet.

Noah meeting his sister for the first time... I think

he is having to get use to this whole "brother" thing.

Sweet little thing. I can't believe my boys

use to be smaller than her. She is tiny!

To say Clay was anxious about going to the dentist was a

HUGE understatement. He whined for weeks about not

wanting to go.

We got him in the chair...

and he was VERY tense...

but by the end he was pleased with the results!

My turn!

If you are looking for a good dentist, he is a great one!

Sweet little legs as he eats his breakfast.
Chuckles with his Mimi.

The boys right before bed.

I didn't take too many pics so those are all I got but hopefully I will have some more soon! Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather...

This Time Last year...

This time last year I got a call from a doctors office to tell me I was PREGNANT. It became official one year ago! What an awesome and amazing journey. I am so thankful for my boys. They bring me so much joy and I am overwhelmed by God's graciousness to Clay and me. We prayed so hard for them and wanted them so badly and He decided to bless us with them. We knew He still heard us even if we did not get pregnant, but ONE YEAR AGO He gave us a precious gift... well gifts.

Here is what those precious gifts looked like today at 4 and 1/2 months old...

Chutters.

Miller ready for the tub.

Love him.
Cute.

Proud Papa.

This process isn't easy.

All cleaned up.

Really not easy, huh Charlie?

Don't Have Much to Show

We had a great time relaxing with the family in the mountains, however, I don't have really any pictures to share with you. I have really been trying to focus on videoing the boys rather than taking pictures all of the time (just because my home videos from childhood bring me so much joy) so consequently I really did not take many pictures. Here is one of the boys on the floor playing together...

And I love this... they do it every time they lay by each other...

And the reason I only have two pictures to share...

SO TRUE...

I am in the mountains with Clay's family this weekend. We knew that there was no gift we could give his parents for Christmas that they would enjoy more than a weekend in the mountains with 7 of their grandkids... so here we are! Hopefully I will have pictures to share soon but for now this video will have to do.

I can not tell you how very very very very very very true to real life this video is. It is basically word for word dialogue that Clay and I have with almost every person we run into when we are out in public. It is just perfection and so hilarious to us.

Enjoy.

Young Life Weekend

Sharptop Cove was a fantastic weekend! Young Life is a wonderful ministry and they really do know how to show Christ's love to high school students. Their camps are done so well and they do all they can to make those kid's introduction to the gospel a very special and memorable one. They make sure that every aspect of camp is high quality so that the kids will see that something is really different about how this camp is run and in turn may ask themselves WHY is this camp different? It is different because each and every person who is involved in making camp great LOVES the Lord and wants the campers to see Christ in every thing they do!

Clay was asked by the Gainesville Area Director to help put on "program" for this past weekends camp. "Program" is basically a skit that will be put on throughout the whole weekend at camp that will be done every time the campers get together to eat. Drew (the area director and friend), Tim Putnam (friend from college) and Clay made up the program as well as all the games and other skits that were put on. They did a LOT of work to get this done and it turned out to be wonderful. They were so funny and you could tell the kids enjoyed it.

Since Clay was SUPER busy the whole time, I had many many people that helped me out with the babies. Allison (Drew's wife) was my permanent assistant and then every one else helped where they could. It was so nice to have babies at camp. They did great and every one loved them :) They just went every where we did, even to club that lasted until midnight! (club is where the kids gather for singing, games, skits, and a brief sermon) It was so so so loud in there but the boys were all about it! I did decide to take them to bed at around midnight because I was scared they would forget what night time is and that would be BAD NEWS.

AND NOW for pictures from the weekend...

First, some pictures of my helpers...

Took a lot of work to get the stroller up those hills, but

Allison did say she wanted the whole experience.

Double duty!

The "real life" part of taking care of babies

that I spoke about last post.

Jessica Allen is a pro. She takes care of babies

professionally. She was the nurse for camp and she

happens to be a NICU nurse... score for me!

Second, the boys at work...

Tim was a nerd. In this particular part of the skit,

he was trying to be Twilight's Team Edward.

The kids up and cheering for the skit.

Lastly, other pics from the weekend...

Charlie

Charlie again.

Miller in the morning! So sweet. The boys slept

together in the Pack and Play for the first time.

The fam.
Love them.

Cool dad.

Charlie in his snow hat.
At club.
Miller with his snow hat.

So that was our weekend. It was packed and tiring but we did it and it was good! Also, we didn't scare Allison too much with letting her experience "real life" with the babies. I think we actually did the opposite! All right. Got to go eat...