GO AUBURN!

Yes, I know this may not be the best season that Auburn has ever had, but we are still pulling for them. Brady is ready to root them on to a victory tonight! Jason couldn't let football season go by without his baby boy having something Auburn to wear! I'm just glad it got cool enough for him to wear it before the season was over. Maybe he'll be their good luck charm tonight!!

Ha ha ha!

SUPER STAR STUDENT

Emma received her second STAR STUDENT award this week for filling her card! I'm not sure what all they get stickers for but this is something that is very important to her. She gives us an update quite often by letting us know how many rows she has filled, and how many more stars she needs. Once her card is full she gets this award, and also gets to go to the TREASURE CHEST! How fun! Emma is doing great in school! We are so thankful for Mrs. Barclift. She has been wonderful for Emma and she makes learning so much fun!!!

CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP

Several of my "blogger friends" are posting recipes to their blogs right now, so I thought I would join in the fun!!! I thought it was appropriate to post this recipe today because; 1. it is perfect soup weather outside, and 2. I am cooking it tonight for dinner so I have the recipe out!! Lisa Spence brought this wonderful soup to us when we came home from having Brady! My entire family LOVES it! If you are a soup lover, you should give it a try! Hope you enjoy!

Chicken Noodle Soup

1 Whole Chicken or several chicken breasts

12 oz can pet milk

2 cans broccoli cheese soup

1 stick butter

onion

1 Package wide egg noodles

salt and pepper

Boil chicken with salt and onion.

(I put chicken breasts in crock pot, cover with canned broth or water, onion, salt and pepper, and cook until tender).

Debone the chicken (or shred if using breasts), straining and reserving broth.

Put broth in stock pot, add chicken, 12 oz. pet milk, 2 cans broccoli cheese soup, a stick of butter, salt and pepper.

Add more water.

Bring to a boil, add one package of wide egg noodles and simmer until noodles are done.

6 MONTH UPDATE

Brady is now a little over 6 months old! At his check-up, he weighed 18lbs. and 13 oz. and was 29 in. long! Yes, he is a big boy!!! As a matter of fact, they said he is the size of the average

10 1/2 month old!! He is growing and changing so much! He is just about to master sitting up by himself and he loves to walk in the walker! This little fellow is such a blessing to our family!

Emma absolutely adores him and he delights at the sight of her! Life doesn't get any better than this!!

Jason and I went with our dear friends Jason and Angela Faulkner this past weekend to Huntsville for a night out with no children! We enjoyed a FABULOUS dinner at Micato Japanese Steakhouse and then we watched the movie Fireproof.
This is a WONDERFUL movie! We were all in tears! It is so touching! I highly recommend all married couples see this movie!

PUMPKIN CARVING

After our trip to the pumpkin patch, Emma couldn't wait to get home for her daddy to carve our pumpkins! She had to get them carved that night! So, after dinner, we enjoyed carving pumpkins together! She helped by drawing the faces so Jason could cut them out. She also scooped most of the yucky stuff out of the pumpkins! We have been lighting them up at night for a week now, and I think we will probably be carving pumpkins again before Halloween. These are just about to collapse!

EMMA'S 1ST FIELD TRIP

Emma and I have now been on our first "real school" field trip! Last week, half of the kindergarten classes ventured over to Tate Farms Pumpkin Patch! It was WONDERFUL! It was a cool and rainy day, but we didn't let that stop us from enjoying our trip. The kids (and parents) had a great time!! This place had so much for the kids to do! We were all absolutely exhausted at the end of the day! Emma is in a great class this year! The kids all behaved so well!

HOMECOMING 2008

Even though "mini-me's" have been quite a disappointment to me, Emma is having a blast! They were in the Homecoming parade and Emma was thrilled to get to ride in the back of a truck on the main road. She was concerned about it at first, but once we reassured her that it was ok, and even what they wanted you to do, she was fine with it! The week ended with the ballgame on Friday night! Emma's little corsage was too cute! I didn't even know they made them that small!

PRECIOUS LITTLE ONE!

I love taking pictures, so there are many days that I just play around with Brady and the camera! I think sometimes I get some really good shots. It helps so much that he is happy and cooperative! I love this little man!
The orange nose is because he will only eat the orange vegetable baby foods, so I guess he'll just have to have an orange tint to him for a while!

"UNCLE" KYLE VISITS

Our dear friend, Kyle, stopped by for a visit this week while in town for business! It was so nice to see him. We had not seen him in over 2 years, but Jason keeps in touch with him almost on a daily basis. He was still living here when we had Emma, so she grew up with us calling him "Uncle Kyle". He has recently married so we are looking forward to the day that he has children of his own!!

LITTLE DIVAS HIP HOP

Emma is taking the "Little Divas" Hip Hop Dance Class this year! She LOVES it! We contemplated tap/ballet, but after much discussion we decided to let her take this. She loves to dance and has such a spunky little attitude with it! They are dancing to songs from "Alvin and the Chipmunks". It's really cute!

BITER BISCUIT

Brady has 2 teeth and is trying to cut more now! He will chew on anything that you give him or anything that he can get his hands on. I decided to try some of the biter biscuits to see how he would do with them. He THOROUGHLY enjoyed it, but would get mad at times when he just couldn't get it in the right spot! These things are super messy!

Oh so good!!!

MY MEN

Jason occasionally escapes to the bonus room for what we call "man tv" time, a.k.a anything besides Disney Channel. He will often take Brady so that they can spend quality "man time" together. This has become a big joke in our house! I'm so thankful that I have a husband who is willing to spend time with his children!

GRANDPARENTS DAY

Yesterday was Grandparents Day at Emma's school. Emma was so excited that her grandparents were able to come and visit with her at school. She had made some very cute things to give to each grandparent and they all received a "#1 Grandparent badge".

(pictured from left Pop, Mima, Nanna, Mimac, Mimi) My dad and Jason's Nonna were not able to be there because of work and sickness.

I am so thankful that Emma has such loving grandparents and that she still has great-grandparents around to enjoy!
God has blessed us with a wonderful family!!!

OPENING DAY OF DOVE SEASON

Today was opening day of Dove Season! We spent the day at Angela's parents house! We had a wonderful lunch and then the men were off to hunt! The girls stayed back at the house and played and Brady slept! We had such a great time!!

DADDY AND HIS FUTURE HUNTERS!!

SOCCER SEASON BEGINS!!!

Emma is playing soccer this year! Today was our first practice/game. The girls did really well! Emma was exhausted afterwards. Soccer will definitely be good exercise for her because they pretty much run for 1 hour straight! Jason is going to try and build her a soccer net so that we can work with her at home!

EMMA'S FAN CLUB

We were so excited for Emma's 1st soccer game! She was thrilled that her family and some friends came to watch!

Thanks everyone for joining us bright and early this morning! We appreciate your support!

1st FOOTBALL GAME

Tonight was Emma's first night as a "Mini-me" cheerleader! She didn't have a uniform because they are on backorder, but hopefully they will be in before the season is over. I'll post more pictures in the uniform. She did a wonderful job even though she was extremely nervous!

This part of the game was fun for her, and she enjoyed the halftime show, but she DID NOT LIKE the screaming and shouting of the fans! I think she spent most of the game with her ears covered!!!

EMMA, KELSEY AND SOMMER
HELLO TO THE OPPOSING TEAM

We are so proud of our little girl!!

LABOR DAY WEEKEND

We spent Labor Day weekend with my family at my aunt and uncle's house in Tennessee! We always enjoy getting to spend time with them whether it be at their house, here or on vacation at the beach!
We had a great time on this trip! I spent most of the day Saturday in bed with a sick headache, but felt much better on Sunday and was able to enjoy the rest of the trip. We ventured over to my cousins place on the lake on Sunday and had so much fun!
Emma had a blast riding Seth's 4-wheeler, and then swimming and riding jet ski's at the lake! She tried tubing behind the jet ski, but that scared her tremendously, even with me holding onto her!
Brady has a good time wherever he's at and with whatever he's doing! He is such an easy baby! He took his 1st boatride and his 1st swim in the lake!
We even convinced my mom to ride the jet ski!!! I think she actually enjoyed it!
We had such a great time and can't wait until we are able to get together with family again!

GROWING AND CHANGING SO FAST

Brady sleeps so well! 99% of the time we don't even have to rock him, when he's sleepy, he falls asleep. TOO CUTE!
MY SWEET BABY BOY!!!
Jason is making this boy absolutely rotten... and he's loving every minute of it!!!

I'M BACK

Hello everyone! I'm back to blogging! My baby girl started to school this week, so I have MUCH more time on may hands now. Jason is already asking me if I'm bored!!! I don't think I'll be bored considering Brady is growing and changing so fast! He'll be demanding more of my attention soon, but for now, I can use some time to blog and maybe even scrapbook!! I'm so excited!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

My baby girl started to kindergarten yesterday! She and I both did very well, very few tears! As bad as I hate to say this, I think we were both ready for this day! She is very mature and is ready to get out from under mommy's wing! I know this will be a great experience for her.

One of our friends is her teacher so I think everything will work out just fine!

BEFORE SCHOOL

Emma was so thrilled to get to wear her new outfit on the 1st day of school! (she had been begging to wear it since the day I bought it, but I was afraid she would ruin it)

Emma picked out her "CAMP ROCK" backpack and snack box! She loves the Jonas Brothers!

I didn't argue, this shows her personality and I knew it would make her happy!

AT SCHOOL

After walking her into the school, she went right to her chair and sat down to color! I think she was a little nervous and didn't want to look at me for fear of crying, but we both held it together. I teared up a little as we were leaving the school!

AFTER SCHOOL

Emma was completely exhausted after school! It was all that Jason and I could do to keep her awake. The good thing was that I had everything done that I needed to do so I was able so spend all evening doing anything that she wanted. We played in the driveway, jumped on the trampoline, and then we all went for a bike ride/walk around the neighborhood! It was a nice evening of quality family time!

ICE SKATING

Emma has been wanting to go ice skating for some time now! My mom and I took her on Saturday as fun day outing before the start of school!

SHE LOVED IT!

She skated briefly with the walker, but then was ready to go at it on her own! I was so proud of her! She did so good! Of course I had to skate with her. It wore me out! My ankles hurt for days afterwards, but it was well worth it! We had such a great time!

We will definitely do this again sometime!

BRADY AND EMMA

Emma is beginning to really enjoy having her brother around! She plays with him and entertains him so much! Brady absolutely loves her! He just has to see her and he gives the biggest smile!