Labor Day Weekend!!!!

We stayed at home and celebrated with friends and family that also had no where to go! It as tons of fun, we cooked out and made homemade ice cream :-)

1st Day of First Grade :-)

My little sweetie is growing up so fast....she gets more and more beautiful with every passing day :-) I love her so much and I am proud of her every minute. She has come such a long way from being born 3 lbs. 10 oz. and having to overcome so much. I love her and I am glad she had a good first day and she loves her teacher.

Just a cruisin'

Our family vacation for the 4th of July was a carnival cruise to Cozumel, Honduras, Belize and Freeport. The only thing missing was Peyton....she was too young to go. We had a great time and Rilei got to experience lots of new things. Next year we won't be leaving Peyton behind...no matter what we do :-)

Rilei's Kindergarten Graduation

On June 9th Rilei graduated from kindergarten and we were so proud of her. The class sang songs to all the parents and we watched a slide show of the year. We all had cake and other goodies to celebrate. It was lots of fun :-)

My one and only tattoo :-)

On May 18, we (Penny, Steph, Kathy and me) went to "No Regrets" tattoo parlor and all got tattoos....this was mine once he finally finished trying to kill me slowly with pain. Tell me what you all think!

Easter

We had great Easter....it was a little emotional to start, however, it ended very cheerful. We began the day by visiting daddy at the cemetery (we even took him a chocolate bunny). I cried because I miss him so much and he loved Easter (he knew after church he was gonna get to eat great food and then LOTS of candy). We met the whole family at CiCi's Pizza for lunch to celebrate moms birthday. We had a blast and it was nice to spend time together for her birthday. Miss Dixie turned 1 on Easter too. Angel and Baker had her birthday party after mom's celebration lunch. We went to their house and had cake and ice cream. Dixie had a wonderful time eating icing and opening her gifts too. After all the celebrating and candy and cake and ice cream, we decided to come on home and get our girls ready for nite nite. They were both totally exhausted.

Peyton's Rough Day :-(

Today was peyton's 18 month check up at the doctor. She was doing so well until Dr. Reggie tried to look at her throat, then the drama began. She does not like the little wooden sticks and she likes the ear light thingy even less. Bless her heart, she was crying so hard and this was before the shot. She only had to get one shot today and they said she will not need any at her 2 year checkup, YEAH!!!!!! Dr. Reggie said she was extremely smart and developing just fine :-)

I love this picture, Peyton was having such a great time playing in the waiting room. She really enjoys playing in these playhouses. Of course, this was before the terrible dramatic moment occurred in the exam room :-)

Old, VERY old pictures of us

I love this picture!!! I was wearing the right dress because my heart still belongs to daddy !!!
I don't know anything about this picture, I got it from his pa when Ethel died. It did not have the date on it but he thinks he is about 12.
Jonathan is in High School in this one. I love it cause he looks so serious and mean yet somehow sexy!!!!
Both of these were taken when I was 3. I like the top one, but the waterfall is in a funny place.

This is one of my favorite pictures of myself. I look so innocent :-P

Snuffalufagus Fatdog Forbes

This is Snuffles. He was my daddy's dog and when my daddy died in december, my mom let him come spend some time with us when she wasn't home. Well, it didn't take long for us to fall in love with him and he's been at our house ever since. My daddy loved this dog, and Snuffles sure did love daddy too. He would follow him around no matter where he went and now he does jonathan the same way, and sometimes me too. Peyton loves to tell him to "speak" and throw things at him. Rilei likes to talk to him and make him howl. Jonathan just loves anything he does. I think it is so easy for me to love him because my dad loved him so much and he was with my dad when he was really sick. Who wouldn't love that face!

A Day at the Park

On Saturday, we decided to get the girls out of the house and go to the park. We had a lot of fun playing on the slides and climbing. Peyton enjoyed climbing until she fell on the cement bleachers. She got a huge goose egg on her forehead and scraped her nose and lip. Her bottom teeth cut her bottom lip too. A short while later she was just as happy as before. If you notice, her hair is sticking straight up from the static of the slide. Rilei had a good time playing with her sissy and snuffles. Rilei also helped her daddy put a net on the basketball court, it was really scary to her. Snuffles was just happy to be out of the house.

Peyton Eats Noodles :-)

Peyton really likes ramen noodles. She was in the kitchen by herself eating and when I came back in, this is what I found. She looks like she was really enjoying herself! She picked the bowl up and pretended to be drinking from it. There was nothing left in the bowl because it was all over the high chair, the floor, her head and in her diaper!

Daddy's Birthday at the Beach

On daddy's birthday, we all went to the beach to celebrate. His favorite place was the beach and he really wanted to be there to celebrate his 62nd birthday. We spent the entire weekend there and had a picnic on Saturday (9/15/07). I baked daddy a cake and we had hotdogs and chips. Rilei, Peyton and Dixie enjoyed playing on the swings at the park and so did I! We had a great time just hanging out and taking pictures.

Carolina Game Day

It's carolina game day!! It's not just any game, it's the carolina vs. duke game. Jonathan couldn't wait to dress his girls up for game day. Peyton had on Rilei's old cheer dress and rilei had on one of daddy's hats. He went to the grocery store and he had to take them with him so everyone could see his girls :-)