New Year's Eve & New Year's Day with Family

New Year's Eve 2009

My parents came over to visit at Nana's for the day!

We had Johnny's Pizza for lunch - it was LONG overdue!!!

I took Grant to get some new jeans that he needed and found these cool Star Wars Lego shirts! Well, Shelby's isn't Lego, but it is cool! I wish I had one to match!

Uncle Dave telling a story!

We finally got to meet our new cousin (my niece), Ellie Cole!

What a treat! Read more about the Cole family here!

Our kids LOVE to play chess, so this HUGE set at Uncle Ben and Cousin Melinda's house was a TREAT!

Aunt Hailey, Uncle Kevin, Dad & Mom (Me) watching TN play football on TV.

We were joking ... the Texans come for a "Louisiana New Year's Eve"! :)

We love Uncle Chris & Aunt Andrea!

Happy New Year, Michael Cash!

Sweet Aunt Hailey & Silly Uncle Kevin

Cool fireworks setting on Shelby's new camera!
Thank you, Mr. Jason, for setting us up with sparklers in the rain!
We won't soon forget that experience!

New Year's Day
January 1, 2010

Chloe Belle wasn't 100% on her trip to Louisiana! The Coles had to leave on New Year's Day because Chloe was getting worse.  It ended up being more ear infections! So sorry, Chloe! We love you!

Ellie girl in her pj's, but ready for a new year!

Keep moving little girl!

Daddy makes me feel better!

Nana opening a gift!

A rare occurrence to have these four under the same roof, much less on the same sofa!
Three brothers and a sister - same as our house!

Michael loves his new blankie!

He has been tying it around his neck like a cape to be a character from Star Wars!

The adult gift exchange begins! WOW, look what Dad got, except Uncle Kevin STOLE it!

Trying to get a family picture - Mrs. Terri and Meagan were managing the cameras while Mr. Hal managed them!

I don't think there is ever a time I see these ladies NOT smiling! So encouraing!

I love you gals and miss you bunches!!!!!

Family Picture! :) FUN, can you tell?

Happy 2010!

All pictures in this post are provided by Shelby's new camera,

except the final picture was from Melinda's (I think)!

2010

Happy New Year!

Well, I have been a very bad blogger! I tried to back track in 2009, but I only made it to April! Ugh! I do hope to do better this year! I have a new reason for my new goal of covering our life in blog form! Recently I heard a friend was blogging and would get that in print form at the end of the year as a scrapbook type memory! Well, I started researching it after Christmas. I wasn't making it very far until we visited John's MawMaw's and saw a book given to her from John's cousin's family's blog! Absolutely beautiful! This was the reason I started blogging to begin with, to document our family events since I can't keep up with scrapbooks! :(

So, here we are! Can you hold me accountable to do this?

Just nudge me a little if I fall behind!

Welcome to 2010!

Since we traveled from Christmas until after New Year's I am a little behind on putting Christmas decorations away, setting goals for the year and getting back into routine. I plan to get all of that taken care of as we move through the next couple of busy weeks! Keep your eye out for some fun pictures and stories of our holidays and the New Year!!!!

(P.S. Shelby received a camera for Christmas, so many pictures are being taken from her perspective. I will try to make note of that when I post, but some are quite fun!)

More from April

Our kids still love trains!

Grant's first time to help Dad with the mowing! Great job!

End of the Year CBS program!

Jack at the top - Michael on the bottom!
Forgot and only took video of older two!

Last Pack Meeting of the Year!

Nashville Tea Party 2009

Crazy Pic - the kids got new Native American blankets from my Aunt Claudia!

Easter 2009

April 2009

April brought the 4-H County Demonstration Competition

VERY Behind

Well, looks like my plans to keep up with blogging have FAILED AGAIN! I will try to catch up a little!

MARCH

Grant's b'day was already posted, so I will cover other activities!

PACK 747 Pinewood Derby Race

Shelby and Michael watching the race!

The Wolves are up!

Grant's RV

Dad and the crew with their cars!

They have worked hard!

Give-A-Way

Check out my friend's give-a-way on her blog! I LOVE my bag that Sharon custom made! My favorite!

Urban Hen's Blog

February - Father/Daughter Valentine's Banquet

My little girl is growing up. Friends that have participated in a sweet Father/Daughter Banquet the last couple of years invited John and Shelby to attend! What a sweet night for the two of them!

Daddy had a sweet gift for Shelby.

The corsage and boutonniere.

With dear friends!

John, Shelby, Charissa and Tom.

Shelby at dinner.

This is what happens when Daddy gives the camera to the 10 year old!

Sweet Charissa.

My girl!

Time to dance and dance and dance and dance and dance !

And dance!

They got home VERY late. Amazingly Shelby wasn't tired when she got home.

She was ready to talk and talk and talk about all of the evening's events!

Sorry!

So, I have done a poor job recording 2009 on this blog! Sorry! I think that means I have been busy or just preoccupied! So, we are going to do some back tracking and try to catch up!

Here we go ...

January

Grant started loosing teeth again!

Can you see the one that is almost out?

Now you can see which one was ready!

Before Michael's first trip to the "hair cut" place!

After ...

Another snow shower!

February

A quick trip to Louisiana.

My Aunt Mary passed away and we went to be with family!

Michael sitting outside my parents' back door.

All of my parents' grandchildren have LOVED to ride in this car! There are MANY miles on this car (not to mention we have had several cars)! This is still one of their favorite things to do ... see if they can still ride in the coupe!

Right before we headed home from Louisiana, Grant lost his other front tooth!