Happy New Year

Well 2017 is coming to a close in a couple of hours. We have experienced a wonderful 2017 with the boys.

Will turned 5 in January and Luke turned 2 in May. February was spent in Oxford at the Ole Miss baseball games. March and April were spent in Oxford too. We celebrated our Risen Savior in April with an Easter Egg hunt at the Club and lunch as well. May we celebrated with kindergarten shots for Will and a 2 year check up for Luke. In May Will caught his first fish at Nana and Poppa Bill's house.  In June, before we started on our adventure to Orlando, FL Will landed in the ER with some minor gas pains (we thought it was appendicitis). We finally made it to Disney World with all 4 of us in tow and conquered the Magic Kingdom. We then went on a Disney Cruise with my entire family (13 total) in June and had the BEST TIME! Will became a tee-ball star and played tee-ball for the first time this spring and loved it! Luke and Will both completed another successful year of ISR and swam like fishes at the Springlake pool and the Tupelo Country Club pool. Will began another year of Pre K at Harrisburg in August and Luke joined him in the 2 year old room at Harrisburg Day school. Will is going to go the KINDERGARTEN in 2018 because of the best decision we made to hold him back in 2017! Luke became potty trained in September and has successfully mastered the potty! Will and Luke both enjoyed the fire truck days at HBC Day school as well as many other activities. Football officially started in September with many weekends in Oxford through November. Will and Luke had their first Double Decker bus ride in Oxford in October and thoroughly enjoyed it! Chase and Marshall were a huge hit on Halloween and the boys got several compliments on their Halloween costumes. Thanksgiving came and went. Will had his 2nd trip to the ER for 2017 with a case of pneumonia. Then it was on to Christmas and all the activities and parties we could have and the conclusion of Christmas day and Santa's arrival.

2017 has been a blessed, fun, and exciting year! We look forward to 2018 with Will going to Kindergarten and starting school. Lord willing let's hope we make 2018 as memorable as 2017 was.

Happy New Year from our FAMILY to yours!

Christmas with the Penny's

We finally had Christmas with the Penny side which was Doug's brother Nic and his kids. Kalyn got the flu a few days before we were scheduled to have Christmas so we decided to postpone the celebration and do it when all were well. So this weekend the crew came in from Oakland and we gathered at Doug's parents house and had a laid back Christmas get together complete with pizza, dessert and fellowship. It was fun watching all 6 of the grand kids play together. It was a fun time!

Arkansas Trip

Doug and his dad took the boys to Arkansas to visit family after Christmas and I stayed back because I had to work. I heard they had a great time. Angie spoiled them with drums, jeep riding, and play doh pizza maker. Mamaw spoiled them with breakfast food. Nannie spoiled them with money and Phyllis spoiled them with pizza and love. They had the best time and the apparently "missed" momma but I highly doubt that.

Scooter Riding

The boys got their scooters late on Christmas Day and it was too cold for them to ride them so we made them wait till the day after to ride them. Will about had a fit but was just fine. We closed the garage door and turned the heater on let the boys try their scooters out. Will's is electric and he had a hard time trying to figure it out and Luke just pushed a button and got it right away. They had the best time riding them in the garage for a few minutes.

Christmas with the Smothers' Family

Christmas at mom and dad's is always WILD when you have 6 total grandkids excited about Christmas and ready to open presents. Mom cooked a delicious lunch/dinner and we all enjoyed visiting and then it was present time and the kids went crazy. Mom decided at the very end to give all the kids an electric scooter, so one by one dad took them to the back to see there scooters and then helped them ride them out to show everyone. It was adorable and so funny to see their expressions! The kids got spoiled once again by Nana and Poppa Bill's.

  

Christmas Day & Santa

Christmas Day came which meant Santa came and the boys were so excited! Will got up at 6am and crawled in bed with us and we had to wake Luke up at 7:30am because Will couldn't stand it anymore to see what Santa had brought him. All Will wanted from Santa was a Sea Patroller from Paw Patrol and that was it. Well Santa didn't disappoint Will and he got a Sea Patroller as well as a few other things Santa thought he might like. Luke wanted chicken nuggets for Christmas but Santa thought he might like a Tonka firetruck, ambulance truck, police car, and a school bus as well as some other items. Santa was good to the boys and we had a great Christmas Morning.

Doug's parents came over for brunch and the boys opened more presents with them. We played and ate Christmas morning until it was time to go to my mom's house for the Smothers's Christmas.