Happy Birthday Blair!

Blair will turn one on Wednesday.  I can't believe that it's been a year!  All of the grandparents came for a little party.  Blair had fun, but I think Blake had the most fun.  He essentially opened all of her presents.  We all enjoyed cake that Nana made.  

Happy Valentines Day

A Valentine From Blake & Blair:

For God so loVed the world

       That He gAve 

             His onLy

             BegottEn

                    SoN

            That whoever

       Believeth In Him

           Should Not perish

        But have Everlasting life.

John 3:16

I was able to take a couple of pictures this morning before we ran errands.  I would have more of Blake but when I asked him to be in some pictures he informed me he was "too busy".  This was as he was meticulously lining up his cars one by one along the table.

We hope that all of you have a wonderful Valentines Day!

A Chocolate Treat!

Mallory kept Blake and Blair on Monday evening. "B&B" got her a box of chocolates because she is, of course, "The Best Babysitter Ever"! Anyway I'll skip to the best part. While Mallory is tending to Blair, Blake becomes suspiciously quiet. She goes to the kitchen where she finds the lid off of her box of chocolates and THREE pieces missing. She calls for him and gets no answer. She locates him crouching behind the sofa with chocolate ALL over his face and melting pieces in his hands!!! Oh, and the wrapper to her box of chocolates is wrapped around his head like some kind of hero banner! Miraculously, there were no chocolate fingerprints to be found. Thank goodness!

Chuck E. Cheese's

We had a big plan to take Blake (Mallory kept Blair) to see the new Veggie Tale's movie. I had checked the schedule on Thursday and it said they had a 4:25 show. We thought that would be perfect. Well...they change the movie times on Friday and Veggie Tales was no longer playing at 4:25. I had talked about to him all day so, we had one disappointed little boy on our hands. Plan B turned out to be Chuck E. Cheese's. He had a ball! We got there early so it wasn't too crowded and he had time to explore. Twenty five tokens and seventy two tickets later we settled on a packet of Fun Dip and two pieces of candy. Scott tried to get him to get a little rubber snake but nothing would do Blake except to have the pure sugar! YUCK! Needless to say he forgot all about the movie and we all had a great time.

Hug Me!

The Girl has Curl!

Scott and I wanted to watch the UT/Vandy basketball game so we decided to speed up bath time tonight. We put them in the bath tub together. I don't know how much time it saved us in the end, but they had fun. Blair finally has a little bit of hair! As you can see, it is really curly when it's wet. Blake keeps asking me to put a hair bow in her hair, but she doesn't have quite that much!

Bathtime

Blair really enjoys taking a bath in the big tub. She has all four of her front teeth which just adds to her sweet smile! Blair also loves her big new pink towel. It's sooo snugglely! Thanks Catherine!

Silly Blake

Merry Christmas

We had a very nice Christmas. We had Christmas with my family on Saturday in Blountville. On Sunday we went to Maryville to have Christmas with Scott's brother and sister and family. We came back to Clarksville and went to our Christmas Eve service. Scott's mom joined us. It was so nice and just what I needed to put me in the Christmas spirit after all of the traveling. Christmas morning was a lot of fun. Blake awoke at 6:00 am. I managed to hold him off until 7:00. We all got up and sure enough, Santa came. Blake's favorite toy seems to be his train table and Thomas trains. Blair was most interested in the wrapping and bows. Most of the pictures are from Christmas Eve. We took a lot of video of Christmas morning. I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas and are blessed in the New Year.

Santa

After church today we went with our friends Heath and Kathy to "Brunch with Santa". Blake did okay. He wouldn't sit in Santa's lap but he told him he wanted toys and gave him a high five from the safety of Daddy's arms. Blair, of course, could've cared less. Although, she did grab a big fistful of Santa's beard, and yes, it is real. I have also included a picture of our friends' daughters Alison and Erin.

Playing

Blair really enjoys playing at her learning table. She is working on a top and bottom tooth.

Wounded

Poor Blake! He did a nose dive into his tent upstairs and made direct contact with the corner of the wall! He's fine but he was pretty subdued for the remainder of the morning.

Christmas Pictures

What was I thinking?? I had to bribe Blake with Smarties and Blair just kept crawling towards me and not sitting where I put her. Oh well! I think I got some good pictures. Any ideas on who Blair looks like?

Blake Having Fun on his Tricycle

Trimming the Tree

Over Thanksgiving we went to North Carolina with my Dad and Uncle Charlie to get a Christmas tree. It's something that we've done for several years and it has become a tradition. You might ask why Scott and I would get our tree in NC and then drive it all the way (5 hours) back to Middle Tennessee. Well, after seeing Christmas Tree harvesting (which begins in late October early November) in action we have deduced that if we get a tree at Thanksgiving and put it up, it will be fresh at least as long as it would be if we bought it somewhere off a lot. (Faulted logic, I am quite sure) As we were getting on the interstate with our baled Christmas tree strapped to the top of our Volvo station wagon (think Griswald's here) Scott says, "You know, one of these days something is going to happen to make us stop this." Well, this year may have been the year. About three miles into the trip the tree whips sideways on top of the car. We pull safely off to the side and manage to shove it IN the car! Blake was mortified! It was wrapped in a sheet so there were no needles in any babies eyes or anything like that. Needless to say the trucker with the pine tree shaped scent thing in his window didn't have anything on us! We made it home safely and the tree is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Thanks Daddy!

Blair the Bruiser

Blair is weighing in at a whopping 14.2 pounds these days. She has also discovered that the view from her crib is much better if she stands up! Scott went to get her this morning as this is how he found her, trying to stand and then standing--success!

Halloween

What a BIG day! Blake's class dressed up at school and they had a little party. We trick-or-treated in our neighborhood this evening. It was great! He went up to the houses, rang the bell, said "twick-or-tweat", "fank you" and "happy hawoween" in that order! I wasn't so sure how it would turn out this morning when he REFUSED to put on his hard hat and tool belt (he was Bob the Builder). When we got to school and he saw the other boys and girls dressed up he decided to put on his costume. Blair was her sweet self and went along for the ride! She is trying so hard to crawl. It won't be long before we'll be chasing two!

The Zoo

We took Blake and Blair to the zoo with our friends Dave and Heather and their little girl Molly. We had a great time. Blake loved seeing the elephants and the giraffes.