Christmas 2010 part 1

SSOE Tacky Christmas

We went to Savannah to do Christmas with my grandmother and Michael, Melanie and William. It was so much fun and the boys had a blast together.

Time to wrestle

Robbins crushing hugging William

At Gram and Gramps in Paris

Hanging out with Gramps

His new rocking horse from Nana and Pops

Hanging out with Aah-B and Zase (what he calls Abby and Grace)

Listening intently as his cousins explain the Elf on the Shelf

His new work bench

Helping Pops unwrap his gift

About to pounce on another present apparently

Uncle Reno and Robbins in their John Wall and Randall Cobb jerseys

Playing the piano before church

Sporting his new UK hat

I can not believe that in 1 day it will be 2011. We were in Lexington for Christmas and had a great time with family. This holiday had a different feel to it after some dear friends of ours suffered an unbelievable loss. It really opened J.Ed and my eyes, along with the 1000's of people they have touched, to the real blessings of the Holidays. We love you guys.

(For some reason this did not post earlier:)

Lexington was such a good time. We got to hang out with friends thanks to a couple parties and get together's as well as an excellent Christmas Eve with most of the Lowe/Archdeacon clan. Robbins had such a great time with his cousins and the girls were the perfect little sitters. Other than a fever and a quick bout with pink eye all was well. Not to mention now 4 of the 5 adults have colds, but nothing to major. One thing we noticed over the break is how big the little man's vocab is getting, I might even call what he's doing communicating, it's pretty wild. My favorite is still the way he says outside but I wish he called me Mommy instead of Bobby:) I missed seeing my girlfriends from home this Christmas especially but hope it was great for everyone!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and that 2011 is your best year yet. My parents just left today and I will post some pics from that as soon as my dad sends them.:)

Happy Thanksgiving, better late than never!

Drinks pre Harmon baby shower with the Harrison's, so fun!

Hanging out with Garner Bennett, we were not super happy about our Auburn Tigers the first half, but it turned out ok:)

Slam dunk-he loved this!

Loving on his Poppy-which he is still saying constantly

Playing football with the big kids

All the kiddos

Dad and his boys

Granny and her boys

Looking like trouble in this one:)

We had a great Thanksgiving in Germantown. What a blessing to be able to spend the last Thanksgiving in my childhood home. We had a great time but it was bittersweet, I may have shed a tear during the dinner prayer. Congrats to my parents who moved in their new home today. It is so perfect for them and so lovely. We had a great time seeing family and friends, including a baby shower for my long time friends Brad and Lindsey Harmon and their little girl on the way, Bailey Kate. It was great seeing everyone.

This past weekend I headed to Chicago with a great group of girls, my mol, her sister, niece and a family friend. We ate, drank, shopped and even made time for a little Auburn football, WAREAGLE by the way. I also got to have drinks with Sarah a college friend of mine and I just treasure that catch uptime and love how it's like no time has passed when we see each other. (By the way, Jennifer and Sarah, can I interest you in a chocolate martini? Oh wait the inappropriately dresses 12 year old knocked it over!) We had so much fun, but it goes by too fast! I am campaigning for a longer trip next year:) It was an all boys weekend in Nash as Pops, J.Ed and Robbins had quite a productive weekend painting our game room. We are in holiday high gear but I love it. This is my favorite time of year by far and I feel so blessed to get to celebrate with my incredible husband and little boy. In my work Thanksgiving dinner we went around the room and said what we are thankful for and mine was so easy. Besides my faith, it's J.Ed and Robbins. J.Ed stepped up in a way that was above and beyond. It was our first Heart Walk season with a little one and he was so unbelievably helpful making those 14-16 hour days a little easier to manage, making me love and appreciate him even more then I already did. Luckily my amazing job is only like that a couple months but what a learning experience that I was grateful to have. I hope you all were able to think about what/who you are thankful for and that you get to enjoy them this Christmas season.

Happy Halloween!

a well deserved rest after a very long day!

Church friends

Pumpkin patch

An attempt at a class pic

Snack time

Trick or treating at school

We had such a great weekend. The weather was perfect and the little cow was a happy camper:) We had a big Sunday of church, pumpkin patch, Halloween cookout and trunk or treat. To say he was exhausted is an understatement.

We are still here!

So handsome

Ready for the races

hanging out with his cousins on the hammock

eating up all the attention from Abby, Grace and Jack

Loves the hammock

Chasing bubbles

playing the piano with Nana at Gram and Gramps

tailgating

tailgating with the ladies

Wow, it has been quite a while since my last post. Since then we have had a beach trip, football games, started school and of course a Heart Walk. The latter being why I have not been on here much since the AHA has been my primary focus of time the past two months. Robbins is almost 15 months old. Can you believe that?! It's so crazy.

He is absolutely loving his school, Belle Meade Children's Center, and his teachers Mrs. Kim, Amber and Suzanne. It is amazing in how just 2 months he has changed. Already a talker, now a full fledge babbler, making all kinds of sounds and words like this, hello, bye bye, outside and others. Now, I am not going to pretend for one second that all of his words can be understood to the unsuspecting ear, but we've got his new language pretty figured out. They have music and art class which his teachers say he loves anything music, must be the Nashville influence. It is so nice to have him somewhere that he loves and we feel so good about. I feel really blessed to have found a place after my cousin because she was amazing so the next caretaker had a lot to live up to!

We are more than half way through football season and after this month J.Ed will have seen the Cats play...alot. They had a boys weekend last weekend b/c I loaded up to go see my bff of 25 years in Dallas and her two kiddos and another college friend. I felt bad not taking Robbins but J.Ed put it best that with 3 kids and 2 of us we would have to move from man to man to zone defense.

Again, sorry for the hiatus but we should be back on track now that my largest event is over. More Robbins to come soon! The pics above are just a few from the fall. I will post Halloween pics after this weekend too.

And he's off

It's official...on August 10th I'm became the mother of a walker. I can not believe it! He started taking steps in mid July but low and behold on his 1 year birthday I was greeted at the door by a walking Robbins. Here are a few videos to show his skills. We just got back from the beach so lots of cute water baby pics soon.

What a Year! Happy Birthday Robbins!

5 minutes!

1 month

2 months

3 months

4 months

5 months

6 months

7 months

8 months

9 months

10 months

11 months

1 year!



I can not believe a year has gone by so fast! What a blessing this precious child has been to our entire family. To give you all an update we pretty much have a walker. He takes about 5-10 staps and then starts crawling but he can for sure walk if he feels like it. It's sort of bittersweet, I am happy for him but he seems like such a little boy now instead of a baby. He is "talking" like crazy and love to raise his hands above his head when you say How big is Robbins? So Big! It might be the cutest thing I have ever seen. he eats all kinds of big people food now but is partial to bluberries and cut up oranges. Watching him play or figure things out is so cool\, it's like watching consiousness being born. he is so aware and involved with his surroundings. he loves to give and get hugs, especially if you are of the four legged and furry breed:) All this to say it is incredible how much a little person grows and changes in one year and how much a little person can grow and change you.


We had Robbin's Big Top Birthday last Saturday but I am still waiting on the pics which I will post later so until then...Happy Birthday Bud!!