Please don't grow up!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SWEET BOY!!!

Today is my first baby's Birthday! He is 8 years old and I can't believe it. Can't he just stay my little boy who still sleeps with blueberry?(I went to tuck him in and saw blueberry so I couldn't resist a picture) People always say time goes by so quickly with your little ones, and I am quickly beginning to believe them. Just to think how quickly the last eight years have gone by... and in eight more he will be in high school, driving, have a girlfriend, and want nothing to do with his parents...I hate to think about it!!! Hopefully he will stay the sweet little angel that he is. I could not ask for a better child!

This morning this precious boy came and cuddled with me in bed, and I told him the story about the day he was born. Two funny things...we had just gotten to movies and ordered popcorn when I realized my water broke...he was the only one who didn't ask if we got our money back when I told the story! The other (now) funny was right after I had this guy I was still in a lot of pain. Jeff asked me how we were spelling his middle name. I was in no mood to discuss, so I said "I don't care what you name him...just leave me alone!" He had is chance right then to use any name!!!!

Tonight we went to eat Mexican (His choice of course). After dinner they brought out this dessert and sang Happy Birthday (I guess, it was all in Spanish). Then this is what they do...

The man behind him puts is face in it!!! Last year he got to wear the Sombrero too.

Party central

This weekend L.C and No-bo decided that they wanted their Birthday party together this year. They had asked me several times. Even though their birthday's are only 2 weeks apart I have never tried to have their parties together. I wanted to make sure that they each had a very special celebration that was all about them. I also didn't want their birthday's to get pushed aside because of the Christmas rush. With that being said...it was awesome to get a 2 for 1 party deal! You know we like those 2 for 1 specials! We had a "Ben 10" theme. There was not a whole lot of party stuff out there for Ben 10 so I had to get real creative. See below.

Our homemade "Alien egg" pinatas. All that work just to be beaten apart!!

The great hunt for "Alien rocks"!

Happy Birthday Kath!

Happy Birthday to my "baby" sister!!! She turned 26 today. We had a blast this summer with her at the beach. Katherine is the fun, adventurous , layed -back, relaxed sister. She lives in Dauphin Island...need I say more.

5 already????

Today is my sweet No-Bo's Birthday. Could you not just eat him him. He has such a killer smile! Time passes too quickly with the little ones growing up. I keep thinking that one day I am going to wake up and they will all be grown up. I want to capture all the precious moments that I can.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SWEET LITTLE BOY!

** Side note...I was slack about blogging and didn't mention 2 very important birthdays. First my dads was on Thanksgiving day this year. He is over in Iraq right now, so he had to celebrate by himself. He has done wonderful things while in Iraq by helping local children get the school supplies they needed to start school (he had to leave the compound to deliver them which didn't please my mom). What a great dad and grandfather he is. The kids sure to love and miss their Daddy Jim! Thank you Dad for all the things you do for us. We love you and can't wait until your next visit!!!!


The other important birthday was Papa's. His birthday was on Friday. We had a chance to celebrate his and Grandma's Birthday over the weekend. It was nice to visit with everyone and a great start to our holiday season. Pipi sure has become a Papa's girl. We couldn't do all we do without you!!! You are such a great role model to all those around you, and of course the best carpenter we know! I can't wait to see what Santa has been working on in his shop this year! Thank you for being a wonderful Dad and Papa!!! We love you.


** WARNING...SEVERAL MORE BIRTHDAYS TO COME THIS MONTH!!!

Tis the season...

...for yummy homemade cookies!!!

Happy Birthday Grandma Wilson!

Grandma Wilson celebrates her 88th Birthday today. She is the such an amazing beautiful women. She still works at the YMCA taking care of the children that come in. She is definitely sharper than I am even at my best, and if you want to know ANYTHING go to Grandma...she is in the know it crowd!! Happy Birthday Grandma Wilson. We love you!!!

SNOW

I can't believe that it is December already! Yesterday we made Advent chains and snowflakes. This is my CRAZY month! Right now I am busy planning both of the big boys Birthday's. I am excited because they decided (completely on their own) to have their party together. I try to make a special effort to make their Birthdays special so they don't get lost in the Christmas rush. It is usually completely exhausting. I have to do invites for No-Bo's party and then thank-you's and then do the same for L.C.'s party. This is all between getting my Christmas cards done and mailed, and shopping for the perfect presents. Hopefully having the party together will make this easier.

Okay so we get excited over a few flurries! It actually snowed on and off all day. The kids were super excited and had big plans to play and sled, but none of it stuck to the ground. They still had fun running around and dreaming about lots of snow. Let me just tell you that it took at least 30 minutes to get everyone dressed to go outside, and do you know how long they stayed out...10 minutes!!! I can't really blame then though. It is neat to look at, but there was nothing to do in the wet weather.

























You can't even tell it is snowing in this picture! It really was coming down.


















Didn't you just love the post below from my sweet husband. I think that I might leave the blogging to him. He is sure wittier (is that a word?) than I am! I love that he thought to take pictures all day thinking about the blog. He also forgot to mention that he came home fed them lunch, put them down for a nap, then took all four to the movies (the little ones have never been either) and then cooked them all dinner, cleaned up from dinner, and got them ready for bed...all before I got home!!! What more could a woman ask for??!!! Lucky me!

Black Friday 2008

Today is Black Friday... the day after thanksgiving and the day my wife takes the entire day, beginning at 6:oo am to get all the "DEALS" that can only be enjoyed by waking at 5:45 am and sprinting into the shopping fray. It also denotes one of the few days throughout the year that Dad is completely in charge. This is also my first attempt at blogging, so bare with my inexperience and try to enjoy...


My first act as sole ruler of the household today was to declare a "pick your own clothes" Day...they were all allowed to choose any clothes they wanted and LC helped everyone get dressed...I feel it is important to single out the girl...pink turtleneck sweater, pink skirt, pink socks, pink crocs, pink bow...there is no doubt, she is my favorite...daughter.

Here we are loaded and ready for a hike in the beautiful North Georgia mountains....

At the trail head...the adventure begins.

If one didn't know better, one might think this young man was unsupervised...did he fall in? did he catch a fish with his bare hands? did he fall in? The children and Dad are unable to share the events that took place due to a blood oath of secrecy.

















Proving that knowledge is relative...big brother lectures on the natural forces of a wetland habitat...or he may be pointing at a duck...












To summarize:
Wife leaves at 6am...
Kids get to wear whatever they want...
Hiking ensues...
LC slips, twist his ankle and does a face plant...
NoBo falls while climbing a rotten tree...
JJ takes a tumble on the trail...
Pipi has the only evidence of Dad being in charge with the above boo boo (it's on her knee)

All in all, a pretty successful experience and a fine time had by all. Blog you later.

Silly camera games

Today we were going to go hiking, but the day kind of got away from us so we went to the park instead and played silly camera games. It was a lot of fun even though the twins were kind of fussy (mainly Pipi) and wanted to hold my hand the whole time (next time I will really be able to let loose). I set the camera on 10 second timer and we would count to 10 and try to be back in front of the it for the picture. We tried it standing then laying down and then jumping. Don't you just love my big cheese grin in all the pics. I dare you to try it...



Look at the focused look on J.J.'s face, and the I've had enough on Pipi's!

L.C. is really good at doing the jumps! You can tell I was never a cheerleader! (Where's Pipi?)

I had to throw my hands back because I punched No-Bo the first time we did it!

A lot to be Thankful for!

Thanksgiving also came early this year. We celebrated on Sunday with all of the Wilson clan. Yum, yum lots of good food! I took a bunch of pictures, and everyone kept asking if they were going to get blogged...so here it is I think this includes everyone that was there.

Santa is already in town!

It looks like Christmas is coming early this year. Saturday we went to the Christmas bizarre in town. They had all kind of crafts and foods, and they also had all these bouncy, jumpy, slide things for the kids to play on. This picture is kind of blurry because there is so much action going on, but I love the pure happiness laughter look on Pipi's face! The kids were so excited about seeing Santa especially J.J. who really doesn't understand "Santa". We took a peak when we first got there. While we were walking around, all that J.J. kept saying was he wanted to go see Santa. We finally took him and sat on his lap. No-Bo was probably the most anxious about it, and didn't want to at first. Check out the picture below. No Santa was not drunk...I asked everybody to make a funny face which usually I have to tell them not to. Nobody really participated, but Santa is kind of making a face. I think LC's look is funny!

I've been tagged

I am starting this blog off with a random picture (to go with the theme) that I found that was taken before my blogging days, but I feel is noteworthy, and well down right disgusting. If you notice on my beautiful hand a painted walls the finger painting above Pipi's crib. This was during the stage that she would take her diaper off during nap time...need I say more!!!


A friend of mine recently tagged me on her blog. I was tagged to share 7 random things about myself. It was hard for me to sit down and write 7 random things about yourself. I can think of a million things throughout the day when I am not in front of the computer. I did cheat a bit and think of a few things the last couple of days, so here goes. I hope they aren't to boring.

1. I am cold ALL the time, and hate being cold. I am bundled up right now and my toes are still icicles. This is why I love the spring and summer best. If I am cold, I can go outside and soak up the warm sun. This is why I love for Jeff to go to bed before me...he is like a heater and gets the bed all toasty warm.

2. If I could change one thing about myself it would be...the ability to sing. My children love for me to sing to them at night, and bless their hearts they don't know any better (yet), but I am not that good. I do have to say Jeff says I have gotten better since we've been married. He once told me that it physically hurt him to hear me sing - very cruel thing to say. I would love to belt out a song one day and sound good doing it!!!!

3. We just finished Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. Watch out world we are on our way to being financially peaceful (somehow on a one income teacher salary with 4 children). It was a great class, and I highly recommend for everybody!

4. Why is it that we want to eat our little ones up. I say that to my kids all the time - well maybe only when they are good. It is a weird feeling, but you just want to gobble them up sometimes because they bring you so much love!

5. I really enjoying exercising, and feel blah when I don't get to. I love to play almost any sport (not that I am good at some) and I am always up for a challenge.

6. This one is crazy, but I love to stop and help out at accidents. I have stopped at many different wrecks and helped out people that have walked away, been airlifted, and a sad one with a family where the dad was dead and the moms leg was trapped under the car that had flipped over. Jeff always reminds me that when I am traveling alone with the kids that I can not stop. Sometimes when we drive by an accident he tells me "they already have help" so we don't have to stop. I know its crazy...I think I missed my calling!

7. I bought a 4lb big, huge, tub, Sam's club type humongous container or whatever you call it of peanut butter on Nov. 1st, and it is already gone!!!! How will I ever feed all these boys!


I hope that you got through all that okay. Now I am supposed to tag 7 people. The problem is I can't think of 7 people who blog who haven't already been tagged, so I am going to go with what I've got. Here you go my fellow bloggers let us know your crazy thoughts:

Lindsey
Jamie
Katherine
Tiffany

My other little angel

I was told that I needed to update, so here it is (mom). Here is my other little angel. She is older than J.J. by 29 minutes, and I bet she will never let him forget that. This is my little priss pot. Don't you love her sweet little smile...it is actually fitting of her personality...feisty! She loves anything pink (note the pink boots we had to put on). She is now getting into girly things. She says that she wants 1,2,3,4,5,6 baby dolls for Christmas and a new baby stroller because the puppies chewed hers up. We'll have to see what Santa can do. It is neat having a little girl after raising boys for years. I am excited about all our girl time we will get to spend together. I will start brain washing her now so she will still think her mom is cool when she is a teen (I am cool now right?). I love her precious little features...that button nose, those delicate hands and the way she says "Ho, ho, ho Merry Clause" and "I wuv u". I love this sweet baby girl so very much!

New sleeping quarters

Check out these awesome bunk beds! After almost knocking himself out, almost getting his finger broken (saved by the wedding band), and lots of time and sweat we now have another beautiful piece of furniture from our favorite carpenter. Thanks Papa (and his assistant Nana) for all your hard work...we love you and the new beds.

My youngest angel

Isn't he a little angel...can't you see the halo surrounding his head??!! JJ is such an incredibly sweet little boy. He is a very funny kid and full of laughter. He likes things to be neat and in place to the point of OCD sometimes. He loves to do things for his sister, and playing with his big brothers. He is however very strong willed. The other night he sat in his highchair for an extra 40 minutes because he refused to ask to be excused. We were prepared to let him sleep there, but he finally pulled through. It payed off too, because now he will say it right away. Parenting 101...never give in!!!!!

Cousins

After church, the kids were running around playing and then they all sat down on this wall. It would be nice if they could see each other more often!

Birthday surprise!

We went to LaGrange for my sisters (older I might add) surprise party this weekend. The twist was though that she surprised us and showed up 30 minutes early! We still had a great time, and her sweet husband did a great job decorating the backyard with lights, candles, and a fire pit! Happy 40 sis!

The great outdoors

What a great day to play in the leaves. It was No-Bo's idea to rake them up and jump in them. They were quite entertained for a while. It is awesome how they can argue like brothers, but still be each others best friend. If only it didn't take so much work to rake the leaves from the yard!

Saints

Saturday was All Saints day, so for church on Sunday, the kids were supposed to dress up as a Saint. Despite not feeling well, I was able to throw these costumes together! They kids look pretty "Saintly" don't they????

My Goblins

What a great night for trick-or-treating. The little ones insisted on walking by themselves the whole way, so it took a little longer. The weather was perfect. Our dear friends the Warbingtons joined us for our 2nd annual candy gathering in our neighborhood. The big boys had a blast running from house to house!

(Sorry it took a while to post (cause I know all my followers had to have been wondering)... our other computer crashed. We are now hooked up to the old one that we were letting the kids use for computer learning games. Needless to say it is still at their little table and I am sitting in a chair made for a 3 year old as I type I guess this is why my rear end is falling asleep. My knees are up to my ears!)

Oh yeah, thanks for all who voted on the pumpkins. As you can tell it was a landslide vote in favor of #2. I don't want to brag, but that would be the handy work of Noah, Jonah, and Myself!!! I guess the game is really on for next year!

**Just a side note...As you know tonight was Friday, and we were so lucky to have Jeff with us instead of out on the football field. We have enjoyed having him home so much during this football season. We have had many little celebrations as we venture into this new terrain of not coaching!!!!