12th and Final Month Picture

It's amazing to look over the past 12 months of pictures. You have grown and changed so much! 

Love you, Olivia!

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!

How has it possibly been a year since you were born??? Olivia has been such a blessing to our family. She is sassy and determined and already won't take crap from her brothers, lol. She's going to be a tough one! I love having a little girl and look forward to watching her grow. Just please, do it slowly, Olivia.

Snipper Training

Caleb and Jeremy went to a shooting range with our friend, Aaron Marlow, today. Aaron is a snipper for the Army's Special Forces, so he taught them a few tricks of the trade.

Room Full of Boys!

When I walked into the den after my shower tonight, all I could see was boys! I love that they hang out together instead of all over the house. :)

Then & Now

My friend, Jenifer Averitt, posted on FB that she was looking for a math tutor for her daughter, Olivia. I told her Caleb was great in math and would be happy to help her. I babysat Olivia every day when she was a baby and I have a lot of pictures of her and Caleb together, but they hadn't seen each other in years, so we invited them over for dinner so they could get reacquainted.  They decided to recreate some of the pictures,,, it was hilarious!! On a side note... this is my Olivia's namesake. I fell in love with the name when I babysat Olivia Averitt, and have planned on using it all these years if we ever had a girl. :)

Cubbie Love

Olivia is crazy about Caleb "Cubbie." She lights up when he walks into the room and cries when he leaves her. Tonight he got down on the floor to say goodnight to her and she gave him a big hug. It was so sweet!!

My baby dress

This little dress had been hanging in my closet at my parents for years! I planned on putting it on my little girl when I had one. It was packed up when they sold their house a few years ago and I didn't know where it was. Today, I went to the attic to get a ceramic birthday doll that was mine out to give Olivia for her birthday and this dress was in the box too! I found it just in time because I wore it for my 1st birthday pictures. :)

CIndy Lou

I tried to get Olivia's hair to stand up, but it's so long it curled down and she looked like Cindy Lou from the Grinch. Look at those eyes... beautiful!!

Girl Scout Cookie Shirts

A friend of mine asked if I could make her daughter's girl scout troop "Cookie Shirts." She showed this picture on a Girl Scout facebook group and told them about my business page, next thing I know, I'm getting cookie shirt orders from across the country!!

Disciple Now- Twins

The twins grade (7th) was next door at the Winn's house. I know they weren't quiet and well-behaved because we could hear them at our house! lol. Chad had them last year too, you'd think he'd learned his lesson.

Disciple Now- Caleb

We hosted the 11th grade boys this year (Caleb wanted to be at his own house.) I was expecting it to be super crazy and loud, but they were actually pretty quiet and well behaved. I guess we will let them come back next year. :)

Predators Party

When we asked Ethan what he wanted to do for his birthday, he said he wanted to go to a Predators game. We thought it was strange because he had never been before much less seen a game on tv. He knew about it from seeing their commercials!! lol. Anyway, Chad and Jeremy took him and his friends down tonight. Ethan said it was AWESOME!!

Best Friends!!

I bought these shirts for Londyn and Olivia and added the Best Friend hearts to them last night. Aren't they the cutest!! I love that they will be growing up together as neighbors and best friends!

Cutting Matilda Jane!!

Courtney and I bought some ladies Matilda Jane dresses so we could cut them up and use the fabric to make bubbles for the girls. It was too hard for me to make the first cut and ruin a perfectly good dress, so I made Courtney do it. lol.

Happy 6th Birthday, Ethan!!

How in the world is my baby boy six years old?? I feel like he was 3 last week!! He is such an amazing kid... the sweetest and smartest boy ever!

Bed Head

I still can't get over how much hair this baby has!! She wakes up looking like a hot mess every morning. lol

Getting into Books

Olivia has really been into reading books lately. She also enjoys pulling them off the shelf under her window seat.

Little Painters

Ethan and DeLyla decided to do some painting tonight. The twins and their friends decided to join in... I swear they painted 50 pieces of paper!!

Winn Kids

Emma, Hayden & DeLyla Winn are staying with is for a few days while their parents are on a work trip to the Caribbean! When you have 5 kids, what's 3 more?? lol

Hoops Banquet

The End of the Year Hoops Banquet was tonight. I stayed home with Olivia so I wasn't chasing her all over the place. Jeremy sent this picture of Ethan and his buddy, Paxton Peterson.

Valentine Box

After Ethan's Thing shirt and now this box in less than a week, his teacher is going to think I'm an overachiever with too much time on my hands! HAHA!! I can't help it!!! When I have the means to do something well, I'm not going to halfway do it!! Anyhoo, he wanted an elephant box, so I made it happen. ;)

In other news... my sister, Mandy, is FORTY today!!!

Clarksville Family Magazine

Looks who's in a magazine!! The Clarksville Family magazine has a birthday page where you can send in your kids pictures. I'm glad I remembered to get them in!!

Super Bowl Party

We hosted our Life Groups Super Bowl party... I didn't want to stop the game to get a group picture, so this is what I got. We had a packed house!!! All of these couples have 2-5 children here with them!

Team Picture

Today was Ethan's last basketball game so we took a team picture. I love how Lucas is showing his muscle... it shows his crazy personality. :)

Naked Bootie!

Every kid needs a picture of themselves standing at the bathtub with their cute little bootie showing... here's Olivia's. :)

100 things

Today is the 100th day of school and the kindergartens are suppose to wear a shirt with 100 things on it. Ethan and I decided to take that literally, so I put 100 "Things" on his shirt. HA!!

Passed Out!!

Olivia refused going down for a nap today, so I put her in the jumper. She finally wore herself out and passed out!

Knock Knock, Who's there?

Olivia loves to play with the little house she got for Christmas. She loves to open and shut the door and window and she dances when the music comes on. So cute!

Ant Farm

Ethan got this Ant Farm for Christmas. We ordered the ants right away but they had to wait to until the weather wasn't so cold to send them so they would survive the trip. Now lets see how long they survive Ethan. lol