Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New Year!

Andrew's Birthday ~ December 31st


Andrew celebrated his big day by having a pancake breakfast in Gatlinburg, followed by a day of race car driving at NASCAR Speedpark. It was a beautiful & warm day - for the end of December. We came home and had cake & ice cream. We will have his family birthday party next week with his cousin Sean, who has a January birthday. Since Andrew's birthday is only ONE week after Christmas - we always have his party "with friends" in June, on his HALF birthday!
*Cake by Jeana Atkins

Happy 8th Birthday Andrew

Happy New Years Eve!


Today is Andrew's 8th birthday! We are going to spend to day with him today and do "whatever he wants to do" ~ Should be interesting..... I will post more pics of his big day later this evening. Have a Happy New Years Eve everyone!

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Emma's new car!

Santa left Emma Grace a pink VW Beetle car. She loves it.
She took it out for a test drive this morning.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Friday, December 21, 2007

One last visit with Santa...

Andrew's Awards day


Today is the last day of the 1st Semester of school. I can't believe the year is half over already! The second grade classes (all 16 of them) - had their Awards assembly this morning. Andrew got the award for "Character Counts" in his class and one for "Good Citizenship."

Awards Day


Andrew and his Good Citizenship Award!

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Second grade Christmas Party

Today was Andrew's Christmas party at school. His teacher Ms. Wiley bought the entire class matching t shirts. Their class theme this year is ~ Sunny Days in Second grade!

Santa Claus handprint!


The class rotated to different centers around the classroom,
making all kinds of different things. This is Andrew with his Santa handprint ornament!

Andrew & friends


Isaac, Grayson, Andrew and Trevor are all smiles for a picture! It was a fun day at school today!

Monday, December 17, 2007

Andrew & buddy Trevor


Andrew and his friend Trevor, show the snowman Christmas ornaments we made today with his 2nd grade class. They are made with a white plastic spoon, and turned out to be so cute!

Andrew & 2nd grade classmates

Andrew and some of his friends making their
snowman ornaments.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

The Penny is out!

Emma Grace swallowed a penny on Monday morning. I called her pediatrician to see what to do. They said to make sure it came out within 3 days, yesterday was the 3rd day & still no penny. When I called back to tell them it had not come out yet - they said she would have to have an abdominal X-ray if it didn't "show up" by Friday. We prayed for this penny to "arrive" and it finally did @11:45 this morning! HOORAY! Hopefully she learned a lesson from all this!

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Go Vols!

Watching the SEC championship game on TV.
UT is playing LSU for the SEC title. GO VOLS!

Boys & backyard football

Morgan and Andrew love to tackle each other in the backyard. It usually doesn't end until someone gets hurt - usually blood! Today it was Andrew who got the busted lip, but they don't care - boys WILL be boys!!

VIsiting with Santa at the ZOO

Emma Grace and I went to see Santa this morning at the Zoo. She got to sit on his lap, make a wreath & decorate a cookie. The boys didn't want to go :( They stayed home with dad and built some shelves in our garage.

Emma Grace & mommy


We had a cookie and milk with Santa before heading off to the merry go round!