5 and counting....

No, I am not posting to say that we are adding a 5th to our family. (Although one day.....) : )

I let a very important date pass by without recognizing it.

On December 18th, Lee and I celebrated 5 years of being married! I don't know if it was my grandmother asking me about a picture in my house taken the night Lee and I "met" or the fact that Lee is out of town and I am missing him......but something has me thinking about him and wanting to record our anniversary for the world to read (or at least for me to read one day when I am old and grey...).

We put the kids down early, ate a candlelit dinner that we cooked together, and then cozied up by the fire in our den. No weekend getaway or 5 star restaurant could have been any better.


a few thank you's:

Thank you, Mama Ann for orchestrating this whole thing many, many years ago....

Thank you, Steven and Melanie for getting married. It was at your wedding and in the tux's that you picked out that made me take a second look at a boy from Clem.

Thank you, Janie Parish. It was Lee holding you at the Rankin's wedding that helped Lee get a 3rd look from me. : )

Thank you, big bro Matthew for giving me the go ahead in dating Lee.....he is the only guy you ever actually told me to hold onto.....brothers know best!

Thank you most of all to Jesus Christ for your loving grace! Lee and I have both come a long way since we met and then said "I do." Thank you for changing us and being the center of our lives!

Lee, I love you with all my heart and promise not to post another cheesy anniversary blog.....at least until our 6th anniversary.....Ha! : )

Christmas Fun!

Happy Mid-January! Christmas this year was so much fun! We had our little family's Christmas Eve and Christmas morning a bit early. We celebrated ours on Monday night and had "Santa" Tuesday morning before hitting the road. We drove all day Tuesday.....the kids did great....and went straight to my brother's house (Matt and Jess' home) to have Christmas with my dad. We had so much fun and stayed up much too late! : ) Then we had fun spending time in Magee with my mom and Joe..... and then on to Clem to have Christmas with the Parish's! Liza was so much fun at every Christmas celebration.....and Will was a smiling little angel as always! We have been on overload with the toys..... And, we caught a glimpse of what will begin to be many new traditions. We loved making our happy birthday, Jesus cake......if you asked Liza whose birthday it was, she would say, "Jesus!" She had a little people nativity that she played with and loved the whole month. My mom gave her a little people doll house.....she now calls the baby that is in the doll house Baby Jesus....hahah. I can't wait to see how much her head.....and most importantly heart, soaks in next year!

There are lots of pictures.....I never can decide which ones to post......but when I thought about the fact that I might never get them into a photo album and that one day this might be the only thing my kids have to look at.....I decided to put them all! Enjoy!

"Christmas morning" in Macon (don't tell the kids it was really 3 days before Christmas!)

Christmas with my dad, Sheila (on the right), my Aunt Bernardette (left) and Uncle Alan (Aunt B's new husband....the newly weds celebrated 1 year on New Year's!)

Fun in Magee with my mom and Joe.......Making Christmas cookies with Nonnie.....

Liza with 2 of her great-grandmothers.....

Looking for the pickle.....

Jessica found it and won the nuts! : ) (Are we all nuts???) : )

Me and My sweet Mama Ann......we take a Christmas picture hugging every year.....we have one every year since I was a little girl!

Four generations of crazy women! : )

Like Daddy......

Like Daughter.....

This picture is so sweet......but I am sure it was actually quite scandalous!

Nonnie and Granddaddy's babies! (Liza, Will, Alan, and Maddie Grace)

Fun in Clem with the Parish's!

MeMe and PapPaw's grandbabies!

(Katie holding Liza, Emily holding Will, Janie and Drew)

Hilarious....