daylight savings sweetness

the night before

after the baptism

we're back!we went to huntsville this weekend for my nieces baptism. the ceremony was as 12:45 Alabama time, 1:45 Georgia time, and 2:45 before daylight savings...needless to say that the timing of it wasn't the greatest...it was right in the middle of all of the kids nap time. pair that with a 4 1/2 hour drive and hard core playing with the cousins...the kids are pooped...parents too! i will take it though for the sweetest kids ever...as you can see in the pictures above, you can't get any sweeter than that!

mary maddox the photographer

mary maddox has taken up photography...anytime the camera is out she wants to take "pechers" giving it to her the first time was a big mistake. i do think that when she is a famous photographer that we will be able to say, we she started taking pictures when she was 2...as you can see from above her composition needs a little work...uncle dermot was good at following her lens.

i heart etsy!

Okay, I don't have any pictures of the kids tonight...y'all are probably sick of looking at my kids anyway! What I do have is some examples of why i love etsy.com SO much! This place has everything...it is like an ebay for creative people who make stuff. here are a few things that i pulled that i thought were fun.

Also...i will be gone again for the next couple of days...we are going to huntsville to my sweet niece's baptism. i'll be back with lots of great family pictures!




http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=36690

These adorable t-shirts are made by Nissalisa. i think that mm & g would look so cute in them.








http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5418

This shop takes children's drawings and turns them into toys...i saw something like this in the fao schwartz catalog...says that she will even do custom toys based on your own drawings...pretty cool, huh?



http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5134403

I love these simple earrings









http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=40325

i love hand stamped jewelry! i need a bracelet that says...put down the fork! ha...do you think it would work? probably not!



http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5255069#

i just love these tags...grady bug might need those!

i know, i know

alright...sorry it has been so long since my last post...(pelham, i think that you were the only one that missed us!) we have been busy! i will try to do better!

happy halloween!

halloween was really great this year. the kids loved it. mm figured out pretty quickly that if she brought grady's bucket with her up to the houses, she would get twice as much candy...the great white grady shark wasn't into the trick or treating.

here are amos and leighton getting ready to go. aren't they cute?


i love this picture. they all look so excited. look at leighton dancing!


one last pause before we went...check out mm's mouth...she got into our candy dish early!


our first house.



another neighborhood perk...we met up with neighbors on the way. thanks for joining us abby grace!


nobody home...i think mm thinks that there is still hope that there might be candy on the other side of the door waiting with candy.


another neighbor pick up...mm was sweet helping river to the next house!


this shark sure looks scary doesn't he?

run dermot run!

we went to washington dc this weekend to help cheer my brother dermot on while he was running the marine corp marathon. it was really awesome. really 26.2 miles...i can't even imagine. what an accomplishment. john and i were really inspired to get off our butt and start running again while we were there. i haven't picked my shoes back up yet, but maybe soon...

here we are waiting for him.


mile 7



mile 11



mile 22



here we are at the finish...looks pretty good for running 26.2 huh?

halloween take one!

here is halloween take 1...we went to our great friends the lingenfelters friday night for the annual halloween pary. here are a couple of pics...

doesn't this shark look spooky? i think that i see grady-bug under there...

here is mm being a total drama queen! she had to go back to the house to get her "cinderella" how many mermaids do you know that don't want to get wet.

the kids on the block

here are the kids on the block...we went to get pizza tonight and as we were all walking in our delightful downtown they spotted a big spider in a new store. i guess the store owner will have to get out her windex tomorrow. it was worth it for this cute pic! check out grady's highwaters...we just bought those for him...my baby is shooting up!

it's raining...it's pouring!

when we opened the door this morning and we saw that it was raining, mary maddox exclaimed, "it's raining...i need my cinderella!" she calls umbrellas cinderellas. is that not the cutest thing that you have ever heard. welcome to the world of a two year old. almost as cute is the way she says umbrella is the way that she holds it. as you can see from the photo above, i am not sure if she can see out from under it. thanks mm for making sunday worth it (the whole throw up in publix episode)

TGIM!

that is not a typo...I mean it...Thank God It is Monday! it was a rough sunday in our household. we went to church with alvin and lindsey. grady decided that he didn't want to be still so we had to leave right in the middle of Dr. Gulley's sermon. after church we went to publix to get stuff for sandwiches for lunch. of course the kids had to ride in the gigantic race car cart that is so difficult to maneuver. it is about 12:15 and all of the churches of lagrange had just let out and they were all in publix getting ready for sunday lunch. we were waiting patiently at the deli when grady started coughing...cough, cough, oh god here it comes...he throw up everywhere! it was like in stand by me. mm is crying saying...grady threwd up on me, grady threwd up on me! we race out of publix and get the kids out of the gigantic race car cart. i finally flagged down a worker and told him what happened and asked for something to clean the cart with. he brought back a few paper towels and glass cleaner...really, glass cleaner. anyway after i turn the cart upside down and get it all cleaned up i head back in the store to clean up the floor. it was everywhere. i couldn't get anyone to come help me or get anything to clean up with. finally have an eternity a lady finally came with stuff to clean up with just as grady threw up again! this time the smell got to mm and she was gaging too. costumers were giving me their tissues and asking how they can help. finally the lady at publix told me to leave that they would take care of it. when i stood back up and looked at her i busted out crying...yes, no warning, uncontrollable crying. i was frustrated, upset, and mortified. i just couldn't help myself. i just wanted to get out of that store as fast as possible. UGH! so this is why i say TGIM! i was ready for sunday to be over.

incidentally, our sunday got better. we got out the inflatable slide and played with our cousin will. it was a great end of sunday. also, grady wasn't really sick. he has a bad cold and very sensitive gag reflex. the combination is not good.!

this picture is the clothes that we all had to strip off once we closed the door at home!

i love this picture

isn't this the sweetest thing. mm & grady's cousin, will, was here this weekend. it was so sweet because no matter how long it has been since all the cousins see each other they all are so excited to see each other and play so well together. they have the best cousins ever! we love you, maggie, will, katie, and hailey!

getting ready for halloween

yesterday afternoon we went to our the farmers market to get some pumpkins. the kids loved looking at all of them. grady tried to pick up the biggest one. doesn't mary maddox look sassy? i love the first one where it looks like a monster is sneaking up on grady...spooky!

saturday mornings

i love saturday mornings in the fall. the weather in the mornings is perfect. we opened the door and the kids loved sitting there with each other. it was so cute.

grady-bug

this is my favorite picture of my little buddy. he is growing up so quick. he has gone from being so little to growing, walking, and developing his little personality. love you grady-bug!

me & john

i was looking through some pictures today and found this one that my friend lindsey took of me and john...we don't have many of us together, but i especially love this one. we were on our way to a much needed date...we don't get enough dates.

the girls of the "hood"

here is a recent picture from leighton's birthday party. i love it. i love the looks on their faces. i am begining to be able to see what they will look and act like when they are older. it is kinda scary.

pun-kins!

we got into the halloween spirit this weekend. mary maddox and her cousin maggie made sparkly "pun-kins". we had lots of fun. thanks martha for the craft!

i heart volvos!

i have the new car bug...i heart all volvos but especially the volvo wagon cross country...i will have one one day. we can all dream right? build your own here... http://www.volvocars.us/tools/buildyourvolvo-iframe.htm

i will have a better post tomorrow...my camera died when i was downloading my pics. sorry! i am already a bad blogger!

another movie!

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!I had to delete one of the posts because the movie wasn't working...try this. i think that it is the funniest one!

Jib Jab movies!

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!my brother showed us this. it is SO much fun. who knew the kids could dance so well?

you can star in your own too! just go to jibjab.com, upload some photos, it will show you how to cut out the heads, and insert into the dances!

make sure that you share with me!

jib jab

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!

another great wednesday!

thanks bakers & lingenfelters for another great wednesday! we went to the new pizza joint in town with the bakers (sorry i left you out of the pics jim!) and the lingenfelters tonight. it was great. all of the kids were so well behaved! mm gobbled up a piece of pizza and 5...yes, i said 5, boxes of raisins...yikes! after dinner we "met in the street" for a chat. these pictures are from a early summer wednesday night outing to the columbus minor league baseball team.