Merry Christmas !!!!!!!

AWWWW .. What fun are kids at Christmas time... After the kids got up about 7:30am .. We went into the living room and Sage just stared .. He came Santa came mommy and daddy.. Look!!!!!!! then he had to ck and see if he drank his milk and ate his cookies, and wanted to see if the carrots at been eaten also.. So we went on the porch and sure enough the carrots were nibbled all over the porch and sidewalk and down the drive way and the sleigh and rain deer dropped a reign and a bell ..wow.. Sage couldn't believe his eyes.. So we come in and he dug in ... He loved tearing open paper LOVED IT.... its so different this year than last .. he really go into it big time. After he opened something he would hand it to us and say put it in my my pile then after about the 5th gift he said put this in my BIG pile.. I got a bigger pile than sissy.. I have mow.. ha ha Sissy jumped right in and played all over her new toys ..... Santa couldnt wrap a lot of hers cause they were just to big so he was nice enought to put them together and sit them out.Sage got of course tractor trailors, wheelies, a school bus tent, leap frog leapster, 2 games, wackamole, memory, books, candy, wallet, mac mega blocks(he loved) , 3 movies, I think i forgot some sorry, Marli got a step 2 push car that we can push her in, a pull up table to play on that helps her learn her abcs, books, blocks, a choo choo, a playwall, tunnel, a babydoll, barn, etc.... Wes was good to me like he always is when its gift giving time. thats why i fell for him. just kidding but he really is a good shopper and gift giver.esp after our 5 yr anniv when i got my anniv wedding band. so he said he couldn't top that but he hoped i loved everything. I got an Ann Klein watch, a visa gift card to wheir I want, :) 2 frames, necklace, earrings, 600 thread count sheets that i have been wanting,renewed my xm radio in my car yay..,, and 2 pair of shoes, ok funny story about the shoes, well 1 pair of them. I have been looking for a tall pair of black boots to wear with my dresses and capris but i havne' tfell in love with a pair yet or had time to go lookin, well he tried but i opened them and and i couldn't help but laugh and he said you said you needed tall black boots but unless i worked on the, corner somwhere in charlotte then I wont be wearing these around her unless it behinds our closed doors. ha ha they look just like hooker boots they are shiny black and the tallest heel you can get. ha but he said i thought you might not like them I thought htye looked hookerish. but i didn't know they had a million diff black boots out there. poor thing .. its the thought right. He is boring he told me some ideas of things he needed or wanted so I got him the oh so wonderful pressure washer. how boring huh? he loves that stuff ... After we opened gifts Wes cooked us a very nice breakfast.. Sausage, bacon , eggs, toast, grits, liver mush, good hubby huh? Daddy came over and ate with us and played with the kids.. they love their pawpaw.. he calls them peadab and pebbles.. since the day they were born that their pawpaw nick names.. After our almost a whole day at home we got ready and went to the Howards side for food and fellowship.... I love seeing all my cousins.. Kelly just had a baby and so their was a newborn to adore, Renee is prego so baby boom time again.. Marli was everywhere and Sage was just as wild as can be... I think he is deaf cause he don't listen to me.. :( the 3's are gonna be a lot worse than 2 I felt we accolmplished the 2's really well... He leared well , know how to count to 10 then goes to 11teen.. yes he made up that number. ha know's his abc really well except l,m.n o p.. he just says na na p.. sooo cute. spells his name, knows his phone number, knows where we live, our names, but goodness he is almost 3 and doesn't hear a thing we say and is acting stubborn.. I love him to death and he is the cutest most precious boy to me but everyone warned me aobut the 3's .. I think there right.. He loves to argue facts with me about thats hot sage. no its not mommy its cold. doing it just to drive me crazy and says I am so funny ain't i mommy.. what do you say.. when he is lookin at you with that smurk that is adorable.. ha over all Christmas was great. Marli's first and Sage's 3rd one... I cna't believe it.. Time flies.. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Twas the Night before Christmas ......

Christmas Eve... Where do I begin? First~ The kids have really snotty noses and bad coughs so that stunk but they acted like they felt okay every one has had or has this mess. We woke up and got ready to go to Gigi's and Poppops house (wes's parents) in Shelby. We did lunch and then Pop Pop read the Bible story and we wore necklaces with bells that were made and rang them and said we believe ... The kids loved this. Sage and Ryan couldn't wait. Sage is almost 3 and Ryan will be 4 this month. They were too funny. Sage wants to copy every thing Ryan does.. I mean everything. Sage doesn't care for sweets like cake etc but Ryan got choc eclair and so Sage wanted some so instead of starting an argument of wether he liked it or not I just let him see for himself. He said Ryan I don't like dis... Ryan said just makbelieve you do and eat it like me.. We died laughing.. Kids are so funny.. esp Ryan he is like an adult trapped inside a kids body.. After we ate we started with gift.. Talk about gifts.. This is a family with 7 children with husbands and wives and kids now.. there was noroom to walk literally... no where... We passed out gifts and watched the boys first... The boys got their first radio flyer scooter they loved them... They loved tearing into wrapping paper LOVED IT WAY TO MUCH.. I couldn't tell what all Sage got until they were done and I could look.. ha .... He got that scooter, a wilson baseball backpack with a leather glove and ball, a real tool set with REAL tools (I am nervous but sage loves it) .. , pj's, cloths, a metal dooly truck with a horse trailer loaded with horses and cows, a john deere tractor, books, games etc.. I cna't remember it all.. Marli got stuffed animals , a push toy she can ride on, a game for the tv by leapfrog, cloths, pj's , etc.. This was her first Christmas eve so that was special. Wes's sister Shelley is 5 mths prego and thats really neat that well have a new baby next year too for its first Christmas .. She finds out Jan 2 what the sex is.. We are just toooooo sad that her and Alex live in Texas.. like 2 days worth of driving away.. SUCKS!!! This was wes's brother JJ and Jens first Christmas as husband and wife. SWEET!!! Wes's grandmother Mama Happy flew her from TN to be with all of us this year.. We usually go there sometime in Dec so that was nice having her here with us.. After we left there around 4:30 we had to be at my mommas and Joels at 5 for early supper . We did Italian to change it up some ... We chose 5 so we could eat , open gifts play and get home at a decent time to bake cookies, wrap , and get ready for Santa. So we ate at mommas, then opened gifts Sage got his dump truck he has been wanting.. and some more wheeley to play with .. he loves those things.. pj's,dale earnhardt jr tractor trailor , Marli got pj's , a beautiuful piggy bank , a leapfrog toy with farm animals, a robe, ... We played then headed home .. Sage and I baked Santa some greatly decorated cookies with red and green m&m's ... Sage was just to excited.. Put out carrots for the raindeer then he decided to put out water for them too.. cute huh? We wrote Santa a letter and put it at the fire place with the cookies and milk. Sage had to test the milk and cookies too :) then I took some pics before bed of them in their Christmas Pj's and off the bed they went with a nice Christmas story... their asleep wonder whats Santas doing.. :)

Where do I begin .. So lets catch up a bit before Christmas blogging..

so cute
holly wild

Christmas card pic

Oh goodness since Halloween .. Where do I begin so I will scatter this out and hopefully after Christmas I can be a good blogger again.. Sorry! Let's see! November~ Thanksgiving was great and the little baby Georgia Hope I will be keeping was born on Nov 27.. She is beautiful. I can't wait to be her nanny, I am very excited and happy / sad about leaving my job of over 8 years .. I wont miss working but I have become close with a lot of ladies and guys at GMAC. I love crunching numbers it makes my day go by fast . But being a Mommy is much better I will be crunching diapers, bottles, poop, pee, spitup, marli falling everywhere trying to walk now, sage being almost 3 ( and boy can they learn to back talk at 3) wooo hooo.. 2 yr old was nothing I dont' think to that mouth at 3 yr old.. I have got my hands full but he ain't never been calm.. He is wide open wild 24/7.. Anyways so putting in my notice felt awesome.. Went to hollywild zoo to see christmas light and feed the animals and I had as much fun as Sage and Marli ... I love Christmas time its my favorite. Love it! I love that our family is so big and so close that we all still get together.. I love everything about Christmas.. I love that sage sings Jesus Happy Birthday! Rogers CD got released and he did chose my pics and that tickled me pink. I have had so many people tell me how proud they are .. That makes me happy to hear.. NOthing big just a hobby I love but hearing compliments is nice. Thats what your supposed to do right when someone does a good job at something? so it feels nice. Cousin Brett got married to Heather and it was a beauiful wedding. Talked more with Bryan about his land and getting married but it was nice to catch up with cousins.. Marli now has 7 teeth and 1 on the way .. She is one handing it around furniture.. She is growing up way to fast. Tonight we did Christmas with the Hughes.. They came over for Pizza and gifts. So much fun! Sage cannot wait for HOHO .. (neither can me or wes. ) ha ... Well heres some pics to catch you up!

Halloween was so much fun! To start the evening off we did a hotdog supper at our house. Everyone came brought their kids in their adorable costumes. The kids were so excited they could hardly sit still to eat. Sage really understood the meaning of lets get tons of candy for you pumpkin! WoW he was like really mommy? Bunches? We had the ol so famous Batman (sage) , little lady bug (marli) , Mermaid (chloe) , Power Ranger (champ) , Spider Man (bricen) , A braves baseball player (payton) . As soon as we ate we ran out got the kids into the wagons and took off trick or treating on our street. They couldn't believe that if you asked for candy at someones house you GOT IT !! After the trick or treating we went to our chuches fall carnival, jumpy houses, slides, food, trunk or treat which i really enjoyed. The kids played until they just couln't play anymore. We had a blast. I posted some pics so enjoy. ( oh the pic or marli and the little girl chloe , chloe told her mommy that she was a real life baby doll.. ( gotta love those 2 yr olds. )

Happy Fall Y'all

Okay its October and boy have we been busy. Oct 12-14 Me, Wes, Albert and Jackie went on a ATV camping trip to Elberton GA to ride 4-Wheelers. We had a BLAST. It was our first time leaving the kids 2 nights in a row so kind of hard on me but good for Wes and I . You have to work on your marriage just like you work on being a parent so Wes and I haveing some time with just each other was great. Kind of strange but great. It was weird sleeping till 8:30 with out waking up or saying the words NO, Lets not do that, get down , she's pooped again, funny how all that becomes daily habits and you can't remember what you did before you had children. So wes and I along with Jackie and Albert had a great Adult ATV camping trip . We will def go again and I hope to post pics later we only had alberts small camera so i'll post as soon as I get them. Then this past Saturday was Bricens 3rd Annual Halloween Costume party for all the little ones. Its so cute to see the costumes the kids wear. Sage was old enough this year to pick out his so he got the ol so cool Batman with big chest as he called it. So funny he was saying batman with big boobies but we changed that around. ha ha .. Marli was a beautiful Fairy Lady bug and boy did it catch everyones eye. She made the perfect little bug. We had a blast and can't wait till next yr. Except I thought abut that and next year Marli will be walking and I will have to keep up with 2 kids. :) This Friday Chris, Yami, Jess, Troy , Payton, Garret, Skylar , Jackie , Albert , Bricen came over to play and have Friday night Pizza it was so much fun. The kids did great. Sage and Bricen are picking up sharing I think, Cause in the past that is why they fight sharing the toys. We didn't have to get on to them one time. So that was very nice. Everyone stayed till 12. So needless to say this Saturday we were very tired but it was fun . You have to enjoy the weekends they go by way to fast. And yes the kids lasted that long. well all but Marli. Today was a lazy day, Church , lunch then nap time yes mommy got a nap.. That never happens .. But with church Sage and Marli went down at the same time. That was nice and I laid on the couch and zzzzzzzzz off I went. Have a Happy Halloween.

Oct 6th. Sage's first soccer game and Jennifer's wedding

The Bride and Groom

Well October 6th was a busy but fun day. Sage and Bricen had their very first soccer game at East View Baptist Church . It was the cutest game ever. They tried to hog all the balls even from other teams and Sage couldn't figure out to slow down. He was moving so fast with excitement that he would miss kicking the ball , falling down and just being so goofy. Sage wanted to but the soccer ball in the basketball goal. well they were playing in the gym so I assume they were slightly confused. After the game we told Jackie , Albert and Bricen bye and headed home for Sage's nap. Gigi and Pop Pop came over around 12:30 and Wes and I headed to Anderson for Jennifer Rogers wedding . It was very pretty and she made a beautiful bride. It was decorated so pretty with White lights , pumpkins, leaves, and Haybails. The wedding was at her parents house on Lake Hartwell in Anderson SC. We had a ball . We had to head home later that night to releave the grandparents that had SAge and Marli.. ha They were sweet though no problems at all.

Now this week I have a lot to do . We are going to GA to ride 4 wheelers and camp out for Jackie my bestfriends b-day. I am excited and nervous. I have never left the kids 2 nights before. 1 night is fine but 2 that is a whole day of not seeing them. So please pray that I can handle it and sit back and have a great adult weekend away with my husband and our bestfriend. I will blog after the trip and I am sure I will have some great pics.

Been a few weeks .. OOpppsss..

I don't even know where to begin. Sorry... Lets see .. Um..

I can't even think about yesterday so trying to remember what all we have done is hard so I'll just post about our last min trip to Tweetsie. Last Sunday we woke up started getting ready for church put our arm out the front door to ck the weather and it was soooo perfect. Wes and I both said at the same time lets take the kids up to Tweetsie for the day cause this might be the last pretty day and our next few weekends are booked with plans. So off we went. I was as excited as the Sage was. ha ha Wes too. We are such kids at heart.. We got there and riding the choo choo was the first thing ..The indians got on board and joked around with Sage , he wasn't sure at first with all the costumes but as soon as he noticed that they were nice he was totally fine with them. Marli just sat and rode the train or rode in her stroller the whole time. I do have to say her being so cute we do stop alot for compliments from lots of people. is that consited of me to say .. ha ha .. I am tickled she is so darn cute .. I could eat her up myself. Sage was all over Wes guess since daddy works so much he could have cared less about me he hung on Wes the whole time. Sage shcoked us by riding the scrambler .. He laughed so hard on it I thought he may even pee in his jockies but he didn't he had me dying laughing ...Sage also got picked to be in a little play pretending he was working on the railroad.. We had a great time and ended the evening by eating at outback.. The place I used to crave when I was prego with both kids. :)

Happy Birthday Miss Jill

Well the birthday party for Miss Jill was a success. Her daughter Jessica and best friend Rose did a fantastic job. With decorations to food. .Yummy... She just wanted simple snap shots and that was fine cause it was so busy that I can't imagine having to make the people pose at a birthday party for long. Her daughter Mary Margaret that lives in Nashville came in as a surprise and I captured that moment when her momma just grabbed and hugged her so tight.. soooo sweet.. They are one big happy family.. I still can't believe I have my dream camera .. Before Wes and I got married about 6 yrs ago he bought me my first digital and little printer and I thought I was hot stuff ... then Jackie got her digital and we were crazy with them .. Then about a year ago Jackie got the canon rebel and of couse I saw how fast it took pics and with Sage being on the run 24/7 I had to have it .. Litterly.. so from the little slow digital camera to now I am very happy..

My favorite Hobby

One of my favorite hobbies is taking pictures. My Daddy's friend Roger is cutting a CD of songs he has written. I was shocked when he asked me to take pictures for him to turn into his producer/studio and see what they thought about these pics being on the front, inside or back of the cd. Roger can sing great but he is really wanting singers to get a hold of his songs mroe than anything. We had a great day doing this. Even if they don't use my pictures cause I don't have a lot of the software that was needed but I was just tickled to take them . It was so much fun and Roger and his girlfriend said if these aren't used you gave us some great photos just to frame. I took 500 but figured I would only put 4 on her for you to see. Today I have to take pictures for a surprise 50th birthday party . My friend Jessica called and asked me and I was tickled again :) yeay.. Nothing I want to take off in but just fun for me. I lightly edit some of them and put them on winkflash and they buy what they want . Jessica is doing her momma a scrap book and wanted me to take the pictures so her mom can get a great gift of this special day. Well that's it for now .. I'll post pics of the bday party later.

Monster Truck Jam 2007

Oh to be a kid again. Ok I really did turn into a kid. We had a blast . We headed out Saturday and met Jackie, Albert , Bricen, Jessica, Troy and Payton at Food lion in Lakewylie at 3:00 to head to the 2007 Monster Truck Jam at Lowes Motor Speedway dirt track. I regret so bad not having our camcorder to record the ooohhhs and awwwwss from those little boys. Their eyes were so big it was priceless. If you took a can of full throttle energy drink you got into a pre pit show for free. You could get up close and personal with the super duper monster trucks. Sage couldn't belive just how big the tires were. He was more amazed at the tires than the trucks.

After the pit show we headed out in the very hot hot hot weather (poor jessica who is 6 months prego) to eat our tailgate food. Troy grilled us hotdogs that were so good. Jackie made up homemade to die for choclate chip cookies and brownies. The boys really didn't care about the food they were just playing on a blanket with their Match box monster trucks. Payton was nice enougth to suprise them with grave digger isn't that sweet?

With a full belly and relaxed we headed up to the track for the race. To see all that dirt is what the boys couldn't belive. Deep down I know Sage was thinking he could get real dirty in that. They started off with dirt track cars racing and crashing that was pretty funny. Then here come the monster trucks all loud and big . You would have thought Sage had been to one of these shows before due to his cheering , screaming and arms waving in the air it was so funny. He just kept screaming Yeah go trucks .

It ended very late and the boys did fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We will definetly be going back again..Sage will make sure of it..