Love to James, too!

Amidst all the kid birthdays and birthday celebrations...our main guy also celebrated another year around the sun!  And we celebrate one more year together, as the original OGs of the family before all the kiddos joined us!  

We're so thankful for you, James, and all that you do for our family.  It's hard to even think and write about all the big and little things you do to make our family what it is today.  You're aging like a fine wine and look better and better with every passing year!  

Happy 46th Birthday to you, and Happy 14th Anniversary to us.  Appreciate that we celebrated both of these major events in small ways: between kid events, at lunch, whenever we could squeeze in time. It's just our phase of life right - and I'm grateful for every second!

Happy 6th Birthday to Wild Wesley!

Our little family caboose keeps growing up, and Wesley is now SIX YEARS OLD!  While I say "wild Wesley" he is only wild and crazy part of the time. He's also sweet and cuddly, smart and serious, funny and fun loving. He's just all the things. We're totally biased but we think he's pretty awesome and so glad that he's ours.

While he's normally carefree and having a big old time, sometimes doing something dangerous and causing his Mama some major heart palpitations, he's also starting to show a little perfectionism in his art and schoolwork. He's spending lots more time with Legos and crafts, working to get everything "just right".  He has expressed a desire to learn the drums, and we're suggesting piano first. :)  He still dances and sings and LOVES to play around. 

This year he's really matured, and it's hard to think he's no longer a baby. He'll lose a tooth very soon, I suspect, and that kills me!  But, I also love watching him learn and grow. He's one smart kid.

We celebrated Wesley's big day with a quick breakfast at Lake Dye grill and then headed down to Dublin. His cousins from Atlanta and his bestie from Preschool met us at the Farm for a bouncy house, hamburgers, and lots of cake! 

Wesley, our littlest man, it's so hard not to love and squeeze on you all of the time. You will always have a special place in our heart as the baby, but now you're growing up into a little kid (who still make us smile!)  The Lord made you special, for sure, and He's going to use that wild side to do BOLD things for His kingdom.  LOVE YOU!

Happy 8th Birthday to our Sweet Maryn

Birthday month is upon us!  It's time to celebrate all these amazing kiddos! First up, our Sissy, who turned EIGHT YEARS OLD.  We certainly think eight is great :)

Maryn is such a joy and just loves people. And people love her.  She's got a lot of EQ, and she's extremely perceptive to others and their feelings. She is always giving compliments and noticing people's outfits, hair, dress, smile, etc.  She drives her brothers crazy, and I suspect she knows exactly what she is doing when she does it!! :)  

While it's hard to nail her down for reading or computer work, she's doing very well in school and has high marks for aptitude.  She will fall asleep the second her head hits her pillow, which makes reading time very difficult!  Her teachers say she is their little helper, and she continues to say she will be a nurse - so she can help people. What a heart on this sweet red head...

For her birthday we celebrated first as a family, with donuts, church, Defy, and then dinner at our Clubhouse.  She loved all the attention.

The following weekend we first went to Dublin so she could have dinner and a sleepover with her besties.  The time together was good for her 8 year old soul!

The next day we drove to Atlanta for another sleepover, this time with her grandmother, aunt and cousin.  We had a wonderful time in a hotel, with room service, and girl time.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE you, sweet baby girl, and so proud of you. You have such a spunky, creative, and fun spirit to you - but with a servant's heart that seeks to love others.  I know God is going to do BIG things in your life, and that you will be able to help and serve others in His name as you continue to grow into the woman that He has created you to be.