Excitement is in the air....

So what am I excited about?? Many things actually!! Tonight I am going with a group of 7 girls, to see New Moon! I am in love with the Twilight books!! And I have been dying for this new film to come out! We bought our tickets like a week ago and have even talked our good (pregnant) friend Kristi Smith into driving us so we can enjoy...what else, BLOODY MARY'S!! We are all very excited and have two Non-Twilighter's going as well-and I am sure they will be hooked as soon as they see the movie!

Our dear friends Patrick Smith and Kristi Pantin Smith got married this summer in California and had a huge reception in Vicksburg in September. Jay and i had a great time. This is a picture from the beginning of the night! I will not show you what I looked like at the end of the night because it was SO humid, i might as well have not even done anything to my hair. Plus,(and I'm not even kidding)I fell off the porch steps flat on my knees. And this was at the beginning of the party so everyone was sober-including me-so it won't be forgotten. I had bloody knees and an even more bruised ego!!!!But it was so fun!!


Luci is big into dress up these days-and sometimes, she gets a little confused as to how it all works. But hey, she's got FLARE! Or maybe it's attitude-probably both! This is what she came out of her room wearing one day-I am serious, she said " i did it all by myself"...to which I replied, "Yes you did."


This is Cooper on Halloween this year. He was "Bakugan Dan". If you have boys between 4-7, you know what a Bakugan is. If you don't know, let me tell you about this waste of $8.64. These are plastic balls, that you drop on the ground and they break open into this....thing, I dont know what the hell it is. But Cooper has about 20 of them already. He's obsessed. Its RE-DONK-U-LOUS! And appearantly there is a "person" that goes along with these stupid balls. And he must be stuck an 80's time warp because Cooper's outfit was so taken me back! Fingerless gloves and all!!


Sweet John William this summer at a birthday party. He mostly spent the day at this birthday party taking care of his little sister!! It was July...at like NOON...and a freaking petting zoo....oh and did I mention in the DELTA!! So it was HOT, HUMID, SMELLY and SWARMING MOSQUITOS. So, why do you ask was he taking care of his little sister? Because Momma was in the house enjoying the sweet air!

I know, I know....its been way too long!

I know it has been well over a year since I have updated our blog! We have had an extremely crazy year but i am going to definatley try to do better! So much has happened over the last year and there are so many picctures I need to post. Please check back over the next few days and I will post many pictures of the kids and what all we have been doing.



First of all, there is a big change in our lives as of recently...I am a working woman now!! At the beginning of this September, I went back to work after almost 5 years!! And you know what....I LOVE IT!! I forgot how much I enjoyed working! I am working for a great attorney in Vicksburg who keeps me extremely busy!! There are days when I pick up Luci that she says "Momma, I want to go home with you.." and it makes me sad to drop her off at daycare, but she quickly forgets me as soon as she makes it through the door! (And if you ask her why I go to work, she will say "to buy me clothes" ....and I am not even kidding!



For Halloween, Luci was Tinkerbell and when I say we are getting our moneys worth out of that costume, you have no idea!! She wears it 24/7-she would wear it to school if I let her.(Of course, by the time we got ready to check out, with the costume, pink leotard, pink stockings, slippers, AND tinkerbells wand-it was like $50 bucks!! Jay was not real happy! Actually, I think his words where "really, i mean you're kidding right?" to the checker at wal mart-he quickly could tell by her blank expression, That she was not!)

And for those of you out there wondering.....no, Luci still does NOT have any blue jeans yet.





John William is almost as tall as me and in the 3rd grade this year! He is the sweetest child!! He is learning this year that school is actually hard-and that you actually have to study!! Surpise, surprise!! But he still made A-B honor roll and is doing great!! One big thing for him this year, was that he got to go out for 3rd and 4th grade football. In the picture below, his hair is hanging out of his helmet like Rikki Williams-but he has had a haircut since then!! He did so well and even got his hands on the ball a few times! He (of course) is still playing soccer and doing so well at that-obviously he has his dad's genes for those of you who know how big of an "athlete" i was!



Third grade also meant another new development-GIRLS!! And i don't mean in a "yuck-GIRLS-go away" kind of sense, I mean, GGGGIIIIRRLLLLZZZZ!!!!! Yep....I am not too happy about that! He said his second grade teacher told them them last year that you aren't allowed to have girlfriends or boyfriends in 2nd grade, so he was gonna "get him one" this year. I will keep everyone posted on how that goes!

Cooper is a Kindergarten-er now! And he is amazing!! Reading everything in sight-including John William's chapter books!! He is having the best time in his class!! He turned 6 in August and believe it or not, he finally gave up his pacifier! (I really thought that pacifier might end up hurting his dating life!!) We do still have Blu Baby, but he is not as appealing without his "pappy". Cooper is his usual funny self! On the third day of school, as I was driving him, he looked at me and said "Momma, kindergarten is such a waiste of time." I almost wrecked the car laughing....to which he cut his eyes at me and said "I'm serious!".

This is both of them on the first day of school. They made these cute planters for their teachers-hey....who am i kidding, these are my kids, they got to SUCK UP as much as possible!! I'm just thankful for half of Jay's DNA!!

We stay so busy but I promise to update regularly and post tons of pictures from the last year!!