North Carolina trip to visit the Kuremsky's!

The last weekend in January, we all took a family trip to see Marshall and Cara - our friends from fellowship in Birmingham.  We also were able to meet baby Rivers, who was about 5 months old!  We all had a great time catching up and hanging out!  The kids were so good on the planes and really for the whole trip.  It was a great mini-vacation with great friends!

We hope to see you all soon!

We have had several "ice storms" this winter, including just recently in the first of March!  Anyway, this one was from February, and both times Jay had to work, so I bundled up both the kids, and we went sledding in the front yard.  It was fun, but it was also cold, so we never last too long!  It is a lot of work to have fun in the ice!  I think I have some better pictures on my phone, so I'll post those later. 

Happy New Year!

So, we are a little behind, but I am going to catch up!  We had our friends the Chartons and Bennetts over on New Years Eve for dinner and fireworks.  Kids and adults had a great time!

Emery and Brooke watched the loud ones from inside!

We have really enjoyed our outdoor kitchen that we built in the fall.  Any chance we get, we build fires and cook out.  We have also been enjoying the ice cream maker Jay got for Christmas!

Brody and Emery are really playing well together these days.  They both like to dress up and play pretend - cooking, camping out, super hero's,  Brody is the boss right now, but Emery enjoys it and holds her own!  

Flying as Mr. Incredible!  Brody is such a sweet boy.  He loves to play games right now - Candyland, Super Why, Uno, and Monopoly are his favorites.  We make him play by the rules and he does a great job.  That is his treat after Emery goes to bed at night or during nap!

Emery is Miss Independent!!!! She says "I do it" 100 times a day!  She is a great helper, loves to take care of Boots and her baby dolls, and still loves her Momma!  She loves to snuggle up and read books and watch movies.  I will miss the age of both of my babies so much!! They are both so much fun!!

There is a new trampoline park in Little Rock and in the mornings it is Toddler Time so it is so much fun.  We went there with some friends one Friday and then enjoyed lunch at the "train place" afterwards.  Great times!!

We don't post too many pictures at Papa and Grandma's but we have really enjoyed them living in Conway!  We like to have dinner with them about once a week but it ends up being about every 2 weeks.  The kids just adore them!

Little ham!

Gram also likes to come visit about every 2 weeks, and we try to get to Wynne to see her and Pop but of course it is never enough!  The kids love playing with them too!

Happy 70th birthday Papa!!!

The kids and Miss Jessica decorated the kitchen for my birthday!  Jay bought flowers and then we all went to North Carolina to visit our great friends from fellowship...and that was January...Happy 2014!

Merry Christmas 2013!!

Christmas was so much fun this year!  Brody was very into Santa and seemed to understand about the real meaning of Christmas.  Emery LOVED opening presents, no matter who's it was or what was inside!  It is just so much fun watching them and the joy that they have.  They are so happy and get excited about such little things!  What an awesome age!

We started our Christmas celebration in Wynne at Gram and Pop's the weekend before Christmas.  We always pretend it is Christmas, and Santa comes and it was just so much fun!

Thanks Gram and Pop!  We had fun!!

Breakfast with Santa at the Country Club...

Emery wasn't too sure about it, but Brody was so sweet to her, and he loved it!

Christmas Eve...Gram and Pop came to see us and we went to eat and played

Merry Christmas!!  It was just us on Christmas day.  We had a great time opening presents and hanging out.  We built a fire outside for lunch and had smores and hot dogs.  For dinner, we cooked steaks and pecan pie.  It was such a relaxing and fun day!!

Christmas with Grandma and Papa!

When Grandma and Papa returned from California, we had one last Christmas celebration with them.  It was also a great time!  The kids just had so much fun, and of course loved opening more presents!  Thanks Grandma and Papa!

Fun with the Lovell's

The next night, we had one more celebration with the Lovell's.  We hadn't seen them in a while and had such a great time.  The kids love playing together and had such a great time!

Going to church, then NAP after all of the excitement!! Merry Christmas!