Push Ups

One Sunday, Jake and I had nursery and we only had Thomas.  It was almost time for Derek and Amanda to come get him, so we had already cleaned up the toys, and were trying to entertain him.  Jake was on the floor and randomly started doing push ups and Thomas tried to mock him.  It was pretty funny!  I was cheering them on and clapping and Thomas kept going!  It was great!  

 Thomas kept looking over at Jake to make sure he was doing exactly what Uncle Jake was doing.  I LOVE when little kids are in the copycat stage!

Welcome Home!!

I just found these very sweet pictures when I was looking through my computer and remembered I had not blogged about them yet!  When we got home from our honeymoon my parents came over to our apartment with us to take pictures of Jake carrying me across the threshold.  

I love that we did some very traditional things around our wedding!! I am also thankful that my parents would come to our apartment around 9:30 pm just to get these special pictures!

Happy Birthday Amanda!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday dear Amanda!

Happy Birthday to you!

Amanda,
You are the closest thing I have to a sister and I am so thankful the Lord wanted me to be in your family! I am so glad Jake has you as a sister and that we get along so well!  I know what its like to be a sister and how tough we can be! lol I love that we are so close and that we get together for lunch almost every week!  Thank you for being AWESOME!!!

Happy Birthday Amanda!!! I hope your day is Wonderful!!

Christmas Decorations!

I should have written this post a long time ago!  Sorry for the delay but Christmas and New Years were CRAZY!  I was super excited to decorate our apartment for Christmas!  I really enjoyed bringing out all the stuff that have been in boxes for a few years and see them around our apartment.  

I LOVE our stockings!  I searched high and low for stockings that I really liked because we plan on keeping them for a LONG time.  My parents gave me some money for my birthday to get stockings and I finally found some at the Hallmark store!  

This is the only picture I have of our snowman!  Jake was leaving for a hunting trip one day after he got home from work.  He propped his gun up in the living room and when I woke up I sent him a picture text message and said that our snowman was ready for the hunting trip too! The puppy on the corner of our TV stand was given to me by my uncle Jimmy 2 years ago. 

This little reindeer was given to my parents by my Uncle Jimmy.  They no longer put the reindeer out and asked me if I wanted it.  I of course said YES!  (For those of you who do not know, my Uncle Jimmy passed away in July so these items are very special to me!)

 I just love a tree that has presents under it!  Oh how I loved decorating for Christmas this year and look forward to it for many years to come!

Happy Birthday Candice!!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday dear Candice!!

Happy Birthday to you!!

OHH I cannot say enough about this girl!! We have had some of the best times together!  She was one of my first friends on the cheerleading squad at WFR and oh how I missed her when she went off to college at ECU!  Now that we are both home we don't see each other as much as we would like, but when we do get together we pick up right where we left off!!  As most of you know, my dad calls me Lucy.  When Candice and I became such good friends in high school, my dad began calling her Ethel! To this day, she will ALWAYS be Ethel to my daddy!!

Happy Birthday Candice!! I hope your Birthday is Special!

Wordless Wednesday: Trigger in Front of the Christmas Tree

Christmas Goodies

 Every year at Christmas, my mom, Granny, and I get together and make homemade Christmas goodies.  We eat these goodies from a few days before Christmas until they are GONE which is normally after New Years.  We definitely have our family favorites.  We enjoy orange balls, peanut brittle, peanut butter squares, spoon dipped chocolate fudge, peanut butter pinwheels, and many others!  I love this time that I get to spend with my mom and granny!  Family traditions are so much fun and one of my favorite things about the holidays!

 Pouring the chocolate to make the peanut butter squares

 Granny is rolling up the peanut butter pinwheels, and I am smoothing out the chocolate on top of the peanut butter squares

  Licking spatulas! Does this ever get old??

We had such a fun time together!  Already looking forward to next year!