Evie's First Birthday!

we had Evie's first birthday party yesterday at 3pm! It was so much fun. There were 35 of our closest friends and family members and it was such a blessing.

We had a book theme, so we asked everyone to bring a copy of their favorite book and write a message to her inside the front cover. The books were absolutely wonderful and the messages left inside were beautiful. We sat down last night and read them, some made us laugh and others made us cry. We know she will treasure them one day.

I am really proud of the cakes - Grr made the cakes and I did the icing and decorating of them - it was soooo much fun.
























This was Evie's personal cake - yes that would be the one on her face in the first pictures.

Hunter and Evie have the same eating habits (that's icing all over his face).




























Alison came by the party before she had to go to work. Alison was one of my discipleship girls from 4 years ago. She has become a cherished friend.



























Evie had fun opening her books with Daddy and Mommy.


























Aunt Lizzie and Evie played with the books after they were opened.




















These are some of my Alcovy Students who came by the party to bring Evie her books. I love my students and I hope Evie will one day be like them.

Evie loves her "Uncle" Hunter and "Aunt" Ashley! They drove down from Braselton to see Evie. They will be getting married in June.

"Aunt" Amanda and "Uncle" Jim, drove down from Gainesville. Evie is really excited and so are Mommy and Daddy because Jim and Amanda will have their own beautiful child at the end of May!





















Here are Evie and her "Aunt" Kobi and "Aunt" Jess. She loves them almost as much as Mommy and Aunt Lizzie. Kobi says Evie gets her big ole lips from her.






















Here is the Patel family. Milan, Seetal, and Rak. These are our neighbors and really good friends. Milan is just a few months younger than Evie so they have a good time playing together.

Whitney is a former student of mine from spalding and now a very good friend. She is almost done with her college career (i am getting old) and she has been there for just about every event in our lives since we met her.

As you can tell the end of the night is close because Evie is going down fast after that sugar high. She loves her uncle Eric and she didn't want him to leave.

WE ARE SO BLESSED - The Lord has put so many incredible people in our lives to laugh and love and sometimes cry with. We praise Him for being the King of all. We encourage you to take a moment and say a prayer of thanks to Him for the incredible people in your life.

Our Trip to Callaway Gardens

Ok so my hubby found us a great deal at Callaway Gardens for this past weekend. Bascially it was one package that inlcuded the Fantasy Nights in Lights, the Christmas Village, Santa Claus, a room at the mountain inn for the night, a trolley ride through the lights at 7pm, breakfast on Sunday, and admission into the Gardens for Sunday where we took fall pictures, enjoyed lunch at the lakeside cafe and watched the Birds of Prey show. It was AMAZING! We had so much fun. Evie got to see the lights, meet Rudolph, frosty, and a nutcracker and SANTA CLAUS! She also got to hear the night before christmas story and the Nativity story in lights at the lake after the light trolley tour! we will be back again. Here are about a million pics from the weekend.

Evie's Birthday Party!

If you can't read the invitation just click on it and it will be made bigger. This is how we are inviting people so we hope you all can come!!

We are just going to have a good ole time hanging out and eating GRR cake and food!!

Happy Halloween

We carved pumpkins on Tues. night and then last night we dressed in our costumes and made a palletts on the front drive with our neighbors to hand out candy. We hade cider to drink, popcorn,cookies, and backyard burger for dinner - all while we handed out candy.
Evie loved looking at the costumes on all the children.We had an AWESOME first Halloween! Now starts the planning for her first birthday Saturday Dec. 8th!!

I am going to post an inviation soon. Bascially everyone is welcome. It is going to be Sat. Dec. 8th at 3:00pm at Big Daddy and Grammy's house in Griffin! Come have some good GRR cake and some great kabobs off the grill!

Evie and Aunt Lizard

Aunt Liz came into town for school stuff, so we all hung out today at Cumberland mall. When we got back from cumberland I took these pictures of Evie, Aunt Lizard, and Grammy outside. We have been really busy lately - but I promise to post more soon!

Evie walking around

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

so here is the rough video of Evie walking around. Pretty good for a nine month old!! She also will crawl on top of anything she can get her hands on and for some reason (her daddy and all my male students) she loves to wrestle around on the ground. She has been a little cranky...people make fun of me when I say this because her cranky day is like most babies good days...so we think that she might be getting her top teeth in! We are already being tested by her on our resolve when we say no. She will reach for something and we will tell her no, then she will pull her hand away look at us and then start reaching for it again while she is watching us. We give firm no's and pull her away and hand her something else but she just looks at us like we are not so smart and then crawls back to the other object. Evie has also learned how to open and shut things like cabinets and even better - DOORS! (she can't open the doors unless they are cracked - but she can close them from any point). The other day I followed her down the hall to her room, where she crawled in and then proceeded to shut the door in my face. (hmmmmmmm, didn't think I would get that until she was a teenager). Evie is a football spectator pro! She has been to all of our high school games and she loves the bands! She bounces and sings when the bands play, which usually gets a lot of attention from everyone around her, She loves to clap for the players and most recently she likes to hug on the mascot...GO ALCOVY TIGERS! Half the time we don't even get to have her because the students have her over in the student section with them. She loves to her wear onesies that we make her that say I love my tigers! Well that has been what's been going on with Evie the last month...can't wait to see what the next few months bring!

EVIE IS WALKING!

EVIE IS WALKING...TRYING TO LOAD THE VIDEO NOW...!!!

Evie 9 month portraits...well, almost 10 month.