SUPER BULLDOGS!

This past weekend was SUPER BULLDOG weekend in Starkville, MS.It has been a while since we have been apart of this weekend. It was Connor's first.

We drove down Friday night. We went to my brother, Robert, and his wife, Lane's house.Connor immediately rememebered their little dog Gus and had a ball. We waited for Mimi and Big Bob to drive in for dinner time. Robert received a phone call that their call had broken down right down the road. So we all went to the rescue. Connor was quite confused as we sat in the car not able to get out. I told him that their car was broken. As they unloaded their luggage, Connor said, "Big Bob not talk to me." " Big Bob not happy." "Mimi's car broken." Sweet boy understood the situation quite well. Once Mimi got in the car with us, Connor's concern was then gone. We headed off to Oby's to eat dinner together. (We did get their car towed and fixed.) We spent the night with our dear friends, Nathan (Nate T) and Ashley Taylor. They are our football season ticket buddies. We had not ever had the chance to stay with them so it was fun talking, laughing and just hanging out.

We got up Saturday morning and hit the road straight to Shipley's Donuts. This is Brad's favorite. Connor thoroughly enjoyed eating the top of his chocolate donut!! Then the boys dropped me off to go shop at the Cotton District Festival while they did "boy stuff"...to the bakery for first ever "bone cookie", walking around campus "soaking it all up" and a little bit of shopping at the campus bookmart. Brad had to call me and brag on his boy...Connor told him that "the bullies play the cats at baseball". We had talked about going to the baseball game Friday morning and that it was against the cats...GO BIG BLUE! So he remembered and told his daddy-which blew Brad's mind. I'm sure he was a foot taller walking around in pride of his smart son.For lunch Robert grilled out for us and there were amazing chocolate dipped strawberries. Mimi had bought Connor a duck on a stick that he immediately loved playing with.

The 3 of us then took off to the baseball game-Connor's first STATE baseball game.He had a GREAT time and almost made it through the whole game...that went into extra innings. He had to get his rest in before the football game. So he did miss the winning home run?!?! Atleast they won the game and we can say his first game was a win!

Now it was on to the Spring football game. Everybody was all hyped up about new coach, new uniforms, new offense, new...it was fun! Because Connor has been to many a football games he was right at home and enjoyed it fully.I was quite happy to see them bring back the dog pound rock. Brad was pretty impressed with the new offense...let's see, not running it up the middle every play may actully help us score this year!! Connor saw and talked about all hs favorites...BULLY, the band, the "coach"-which we will have to start working on the new "Dan the Man", the BIG flag, helmets, football, fight song, cowbells, etc....he truly is a little BULLY!

It ended up being a fun filled SUPER BULLDOG WEEKEND for us...GO BULLY!

Easter Weekend!

What a FUNfilled Easter weekend! Each holiday is exciting to experience together as a family. And in our hard decision making struggle about where and what to be and do...we did decide to keep FAMILY FIRST!! We are blessed to live close to both our families where we can easily drive to them.

Friday began with just the 3 of us!! We headed out to Cedar Hills Farm! Even though it was a little chilly and very windy, we had a GREAT time! We took our picture first with a LIVE bunny!! Connor could not wait to hold that white bunny. Surprisingly he did GREAT!!

We then visited all the animals. Connor then made his trip to see the Easter Bunny. Luckily, we had him to ourselves for a little while because it took Connor a little while to finally get close to him. He talked up a storm to him..."you are white...you have ears...you hop...come my house..."

Next Connor and Daddy rode the train! YEAH!

We then rode the "John Deere tractor" out to hunt eggs. Connor had it all to himself for a little bit and just took off in the field of a million eggs in hunt for the 12 he wanted to pick up!! He didn't discover until the end that there actually was something in the eggs...so he and daddy shared a tootsie roll!!

Saturday, my parents "Mimi and Big Bob" were here with us. We went to the church egg hunt all together. Our best buddies were there and buy was it FUN! Connor found lots of eggs with Big Bob's help!!Then it was PLAY time on the playground with my friends. I think Mimi and Big Bob had a blast watching him interact with his friends. We ate a hotdog lunch picnic style. Then emptied out all the eggs on the way home looking for CANDY!! Connor seems to like the smarties the best.

Mimi and Big Bob stayed to play a little while before they had to go home. It was long awaited time with them...reading books, playing cars and hunting more eggs!

We then drove Saturday night to Jackson to be with Brad's family. Connor had his first egg dieing party there. We were not quite sure how that would go...but he loved it! He was pretty patient. I think only one egg was broken! He did a fantastic job and you could tell he was proud!

There is nothing better than Easter Sunday morning!! We woke up and got ready. We found that there was ...STUFF...in our easter baskets!! How nice!! Grandmomma and Grandpa went with us to First Baptist Jackson...our old church. It is always nice to be back there. Connor kept saying "Jackson"...we think that he thinks the big church is called Jackson!?!?! The service was AMAZING-MUSIC there is like no other...heavenly!!

We then headed back home for lunch with all the family!

We also hunted eggs...really pretty eggs that Jet had brought. JJ and Jet hid the eggs and then Connor found them all...except the last one- he had everybody looking for!!?!? When it was finally found...Olivia/"Viva" also found a real frog!

What a WONDERFUL weekend to celebrate JESUS!! What WONDERFUL families we have!!

A NEW HOME!!!

Saturday we travelled to Maumelle, Arkansas! Our Uncle Matt and Aunt Tasha have moved to a new home!! They had been living in Little Rock looking for a home. They found one about a month ago and are now moving in and making it theirs.It is a FABULOUS WONDERFUL BIG ROOMIE house! They have been working on some changes to it the past weeks and have had family up working hard with them. We were soo impressed with all their hard work. It looks soo good!

Connor took the drive there pretty well, playing, singing, reading, talking...we never had to break out his ipod to watch a "movie"!! When we got to the house, the moving truck had just come with furniture. Connor was thrilled to see Grandmomma and Grandpa. He helped unloading things like-pillows! We love Matt and Tasha's new yard...it huge and fun!! Connor was impressed with all the big rocks!! It was GORGEOUS weather! and Connor spent a lot of time outside playing! We tried helping around the house as mothers and grandmothers painted...Connor and I put on wall plates and unpacked some kitchen boxes.Brad and the boys worked on light fixtures and ceiling fans. Connor got to get a plumbing lesson-fun time- with Grandpa.I'm not soo sure they were successful with that project?!!? Connor also helped Grandmomma with loads of laundry.We had a nice lunch and dinner out on their deck. Connor even took the first nap-in the new pack n play- for their baby!!! It was a great time. I know we didn't do a whole lot of work but we tried. We are VERY PROUD EXCITED and HAPPY for Matt and Tasha and their new home on Coral Cove. We wish them all the best in getting it just like they want it and ready for our new family member coming soon!!

On the drive back home Brad took me by the Laundry Mat that we co-own in West Memphis. I was not quite prepared for what I saw!!??! Keep up the hard work Knuckleheads- is all I can say!?!?

Libarie...story time

We enjoy going to story time at our local Olive Branch Library. Connor LOVES books! He loves listening, sitting on the colored squares , playing and picking new books!! We have been trying to go consistently lately.

Thursday, we had almost a private session of story time at the "libarie". As we got there I was a little worried that it had been cancelled, but our teacher told us that it was just a super slow morning. Connor and Eli and one other little girl enjoyed a full story time together. IT was pretty neat to see the teacher work soo one-on-one with them. They loved that she let them move to different colored squares. The song this week was the monkeys and the alligator and Connor was in heaven! He "SNAPPED" those monkeys right out of the tree. Eli and Connor did a FABULOUS job of listening and interacting. I was sooo proud of them. Connor also was very insistent today that in the library you are "QUIET"!! And he for the most part is a very quiet boy in the library. He did pick out a few new books to bring home...his favorite right now is veggie tales and winnie the pooh. I being the seasonal teacher/mommie wanted him desperately to pick some Easter books...he was not interested one bit. I slipped one "Bunny my Honey" book in and now it is his favorite to read at home!!! Hopefully next week our "libarie" friends and group will be back to normal attendace. It was a nice change though!!