Somebody has a birthday ......

Happy Birthday Nanny!!  We will see you on Friday!!!

1st T-Ball Game

We finally signed AC1 up for organized sports :)

We picked t-ball as one of the large churches in the neighborhood has a non-traveling league that seems focused on the kids having fun and learning a thing or two about baseball along the way!!  AC1 had fun today!

 Starting with a prayer

 Austin playing 3rd base; from the background color, you can see it is Springtime in GA

 His first at bat; he did not hit his coach in the head :)

 Made a hit and made it to 1st base!  A little support from another dad

 Almost home; his coach showed him how to use his helmet as a base drum

 Another chance to hit later in the game

 Made it home!!!!!

 Ansley & I are very engaged with the game!

 Ooopppsss, that is the real story, Ansley has a playfriend at the game who she pals around with while the boys are on the field.

 An caught in the act!

 Austin's last at bat; he has the form, but obviously from the ball still being on the stand, we have a bit of work to do on the delivery!!

 Out playing in the field........

Catches a grounder and throws it to first for the only out of the game.........

All in all, a great time was had by all!! 

AC1 did enjoy himself and is excited for practice again on Tuesday.  

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Random pic & a video greeting

Happy Birthday Grandma B!!

Eric and the kids have made a few bird houses, here is one:

We have no idea what that expression is on An's face :)

I have been sleeping on the job of updating the blog!!  Ansley is actually asleep on my side of our bed and she obviously did not care about the big pile of drool she just deposited!!  Thanks love!!!

This is a picture of her from her school's Christmas Program; she is mid "Our God" ......see clip below........she is in the front row third from the left:

Enjoy!!

Coming soon to a mailbox near you....

That is right, for the first time in our family history, we are sending out Christmas cards!!!

Fall Happenings

I need to play catch up!!!

These are pictures from the parade in our neighborhood every year; I always have to work that Saturday, so Eric teams up with some of our neighbors and takes the kids....caught being silly!!

 As you can see from the look on their faces, they are anticipating the rush to get candy from the next float.....or firetruck.....or boy scout troop

 This is just a random picture to prove how happy our kids are when they get to eat sugary treats that his mommy obviously does not give him (smile)....

 And then there is this!  So we are at the cabin, and I hear gun shots outside, but do not think much of it as the cabin borders a national forest....and then I hear a lot of talking outside, and so I think, well maybe I should go out and see what is going on......only to find this.......seems the boys (Charlie included) have gone squirrel hunting......very troubling.....

 Austin spotted for Eric, Eric shot, and Charlie retrieved....luckily the camera ran out of batteries prior to Grandpa Barry teaching Austin how to gut, skin, and pull the meat off of the squirrels so that Grandma Delma could make some squirrel soup!!!  I have to say I could not have gone back to being a vegetarian at a more appropriate time in life!!!

 Oh that is right my friends, Austin is holding the critters by the tail without a glove; I almost had to give one of my "talks" but then remembered that boys will be boys and a little squirrel blood never killed anybody......please do not tell me stories of someone who got hurt by dead squirrels!!!

 Then there is Ansley's Halloween party.  A few weeks ago she asked if she could go back to school, so we put her in a Mother's Morning Out program at our church.  Eric went to her Halloween party and helped her to decorate her cookie.

 She had lots of fun and was dressed up as a lady bug....stay tuned for the costume shot!!

 This was at the cabin, this past Saturday afternoon.  An has given up her afternoon nap, but on Saturday while we were waiting for dinner to be ready, she fell asleep sitting up in a chair....well, it was late and I did not want her to take a nap so late in the day, as she would then not go to sleep until, WAY LATE, so .... I picked her up.  Well, she of course continued to sleep in my lap, so then I tried to make her stand up, and she started to wobble.....and then she sat down on the floor and continued to sleep, sitting up.  This was the best picture to capture what was going on, but picture her swaying back and forth, sleeping while sitting up!

 And then there was Halloween; Austin went as a pirate and Ansley a lady bug.  Eric had class, so I was by myself, so needless to say, we got lots of candy but did not give any out, since no one was home when the trick-or-treaters came around!!

 An and one of our next door neighbors, Jordan, that she loves.

And then this is Austin and Aris; they are in the same class and have a play date every Friday afternoon.  So they obviously gravitate towards each other at neighborhood events.  Earlier in the day on Halloween, Austin saw Aris's mom at the school and asked her if he could borrow a sword for his pirate costume (as I obviously was not going to let him have a sword to use to poke his sister's eye out with) and she brought it to him.  The look on his face was as if he had won the lottery.  I rationalize that this just makes him appreciate things more!!

Have a great weekend, and I will try to update more often!!

Another birthday

Another day, another post, another birthday.....this time Grandpa B. is 65!!