Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts
Written by Jessica on Saturday, November 06, 2010
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The boys had so much fun this Halloween.  They helped me carve the pumpkin... By 'helped me carve the pumpkin', I mean Brayden was stopped in to check on my progress in between football passes.  Carter directed me as to what to do Taylor popped in here and there between playing with friends and Tucker played with everyone. 






 Saturday we got dressed up and went downtown to the "trunk or treat" with Grandaddy and Mimi.  It was packed with lots of vendors and trunk or treaters, so we took it all in, took some pictures and headed back home to grill out.
 Brayden was so scared of Taylor's costume and it took him a long time once he  started screaming and crying for him to calm down.  Then when we tried to get his costume on him (a giraffe) he was equally as scared.  After a few bribes and a few pieces of candy, we got his costume on and he was fine.






The little boys embraced their costumes and really played up their characters.  They were so cute and would tell anyone who asked (and many who didn't) what they were dressed as.  They'd walk up to each door and say, "Twick-ah-Tweet, Tank you!" They were so stinking cute!  Taylor has a big time playing with his brothers and jumping out from bushes and scaring them. 

Written by Jessica on Friday, July 16, 2010
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I wanted to hurry and get an update out here before I start my new juggling act on Monday.  I’ll be back to working full time, with 4 kiddos, and baseball, and golf, and school, and homework, all the other fun stuff that I’ll have in the air.  ;)

The weekend before the 4th of July, there was a small Fair and a Celebration of Aiken County and Independence Day called Fire over Aiken.  After waiting for a few hours for the fireworks show, they announced that the storm earlier in the day and caused their computer to malfunction and the fireworks were canceled.
While we were waiting, we had fun though…
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The next weekend, July 4th, we went to the Augusta RiverWalk.  We had Mexican food near the Savannah River and listed the brave Karaoke performers before heading down to the river.IMG_5441
The view was something like this when we made our way to the river bank.  Still not quite dark enough for fireworks….IMG_5486
Still waiting on the darknesss…IMG_5485
Almost time…Patience was wearing a little thin…IMG_5479
Almost dark!IMG_5484  It’s dark…and we’re still waiting… We’re afraid it may be a repeat of last week, when at 10:45pm they were cancelled…IMG_5480IMG_5498
But, no, we watched a spectacular fireworks show that lasted about 30-45 minutes.  No pictures because we had to hold kids up where they could see them because people rushed down in front of us blocking the view we had.

We got home a little after midnight.  As you can see, Taylor still had lots of energy!IMG_5524 IMG_5525 IMG_5530

Written by Jessica on Tuesday, May 04, 2010

non facebookies - here's the link to Taylor's album.

Written by Jessica on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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This can't end well... Tucker is learning, and patiently waiting his turn.


Wade came home this weekend and we went to get some much needed haircuts on Friday.


This was Brayden's FIRST haircut and he did great!


This was Tucker and Carter's 3rd haircut. Think Tuck needed one?


Obviously these pictures aren't in chronological order, these are from before the weekend and the haircut...

When I took the boys in for their 18 month check up the doctor was asking me all the normal questions and giving me all the normal advice and instruction. Then he told me to continue to go behind the boys after the brush their teeth. This struck me because I'd never even let them hold their own tooth brush, I always put them in my lap and did it then let them go on their merry way. Now, I let them brush their own teeth and they love the new freedom. They don't, however, like me taking their tooth brushes away. Major meltdowns...




These pictures are from Friday as we waited on big bubba to get out of school so we could get haircuts.

Look at Brayden's hair!


We love when Daddy comes home!





After haircuts.


Last week I took Carter and Tucker's paci's away. They did pretty good for the most part. Carter started throwing awful fits and would become inconsolable at times, mostly out of anger when things wouldn't go his way. Wade felt so bad for him that he gave the paci's back. We talked about it, and maybe now isn't a good time to take something else away. They've already lost their Daddy, only seeing him a handful of days a month. We waited until Taylor was 2 and he didn't have any sort of speech problems or anything; just a little bit of a late talker... Our boys are all already talking and telling us what they want so much more than Taylor did at their age. So, we'll let them keep the paci until we are all under 1 roof again, which hopefully will be SOON!

Look at this sweet face.

you wouldn't believe the fit he just threw!





As for other updates, Carter is climbing out of his crib, into his crib, and into his brother's cribs. So we've decided to go the crib tent route. We still have another 15-16 months in the crib, so we definely have to keep them from breaking a leg or neck from falling out. Taylor stayed in his crib until he was 3, without a crib tent, and when we swapped to a 'big boy' bed he was so excited and he never got out of his bed at night. Never. Not once. So, we'll take our cues from the boys, they may even be older before they graduate from the crib; they have to earn them and prove to us they can handle them.

Our house is still on the market. No bites yet. We SO need this house to hurry and sell! I'm killing myself trying to keep it in 'showing' condition. Wade has traveled a little here and there since we were married. I jokingly tell him that he missed my best 3 months of pregnancy. He was home when I was sick during the first 3 months, gone for months 4, 5, and 6, then came back when I was 40 pounds heavier, miserable and ready to pop. He was gone for a few months when Taylor was just a little older than the boys now. When he came back, Taylor didn't even remember him at first. He was scared of him and had to warm back up to him. We're "used to" him traveling. But this time there are so many other variables thrown into the equation, and so much going on, it's been really hard. And the hardest part is not knowing when it will end. Or even how it will end. I'm a planner. I like to plan things. Unknowns are not good for neurotic planners like me. We're all just ready to be under one roof and be together again.

Written by Jessica on Thursday, January 14, 2010
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