Happy New Year

Hope everyone has a happy New Year. 2010 was a great year and I am sad to see it go. I hope 2011 will be half as good as 2010 was for us. I am feeling so blessed tonight to have a wonderful husband and a healthy 16 1/2 month old. God is so good!!!!!

Here are a few pics we took before we left to go celebrate the coming of a new year.


We snapped the picture ourself


The flash was too bright for him but I still thought it was a cute picture


Doesn't he look so grown up???? (Looks just like his granddaddy in this picture to me)



Ps. Laurie my lipstick won't stay on. I tried everything you said... boo

Christmas (better late than never)

We have had a wonderful Christmas holiday. We are very blessed to have two sets of wonderful parents who spoil us and spoil Reid so much. We are also very blessed that we are able to spend time with both our families each holiday. I don't know what I would do if we had to rotate them. I think I would be devastated if I couldn't see my mama on each holiday.

We spend the first part of the week at my parents and then the second half with Justin's family. On Christmas Eve we always go to Granny's and eat a wonderful lunch and then exchange gifts with the children. Reid seemed to enjoy it much better now that he is walking he can go wherever he wants, but it made it hard on us chasing him everywhere. By the time is was time to exchange gifts Reid was asleep in his daddy's arms and missed all the excitement. I know next year will be so fun for Reid. He will be in there with all those excited kids just waiting on his present. Out of Granny's 75 people 69 were there. It is hard to believe it was that many people there for Christmas. The great thing about that is most of them come back every Sunday for Sunday lunch after church. I couldn't have married into a better family. They are a wonderful Christian family and makes everyone feel right at home.

This was the first year I have every been away from my mama for Christmas morning. We decided we would stay in Collierville since they were predicting snow. We really wanted to have the white Christmas and I went back and forth with this decision for three days trying to figure out what was the right or the best thing to do. Ultimately we decided to stay in Tn and guess what it didn't snow but it DID snow at my mama's house. So it was a big laugh when it was all said and done. We made the wrong decision, but we were able to get there early Christmas morning and was also able to enjoy the snow.

Reid wasn't into Christmas to much this year. I am hoping next year he will be so excited. My two nieces Emily and Sarah Kate were so excited for Santa to come. We made cookies the night before and we had the best time. Those girls are so sweet and I love them so much.

Here are some pictures from Christmas week, Christmas Eve, Christmas morning and a few days later.

Reid and Blake with my parents dog


Blake loves this dog... I love this picture


Mimi had her boys laughing


I love his blue eyes


My sister in law and her girls Emily and Sarah Kate


Reid sleeping at Granny's while everyone opened gifts


I love these sweet girls


Love their matching PJ's .. right before they went to bed... they were so excited


Kay-K and Pop with their grand children


Santa came


Love this picture of the girls running in to see what Santa brought


Reid playing with his toys


Granddaddy and his boy in the snow


Reid's first white Christmas


me and my sweet baby


Mimi and Reid.. he just wanted down to play


Our first white Christmas


Look what Santa brought.. thanks Mimi


Reid loved playing in his tent (bad news it takes up so much space)


drool everywhere.. so excited

Kiss

Boy, I am doing good two post in one day; or is it that Reid is doing good and allowed mommy some computer time.

Justin said Reid gets so excited when this song comes on Yo Gabba Gabba that I had to come and check it out. We upgraded to Dish Network so now we get Nick Jr and Yo Gabba Gabba comes on that station. Justin and Reid have a routine every night of watching the cartoon. I personally never watch it.

Here is a video of Reid dancing to his favorite song on Yo Gabba Gabba and at the end Reid is blowing me a kiss and then he puckers up for another kiss. He just learned to blow kisses two days ago so I would say he is doing pretty good with the concept.

Enjoy the video (mom I know you are going to say it isn't long enough, but the battery was dying on the camera so you will have to wait till Thursday when you can see him)


Justin and I have decided that Reid looks like his brother Steve in this video.

Fun

We have had a few good days. As you can see from the pictures below he has been a ball player, a swimmer and found a new play area. We went swimming this morning and the weather was so nice. We went with Angela, Isabel, Claire, Kristi and Amelia Rose. We had a lot of fun and Reid really just wanted to be in my lap loving on me the whole time. I really didn't mind at all. ha

Reid's Kay-K and Pop got Reid the St. Louis Cardinal outfit when they went to St. Louis and Reid's Aunt Laurie sent this swim suit for his birthday.

I think Reid looks so handsome in the first picture of him in his swim suit and the picture where Reid has his hands on his face reminds me of myself for some reason. I never think Reid looks like me, but some reason this picture just reminds me of some of my baby pictures I have seen of myself.

My Favorite

These are my favorite people and my favorite fur babies. Reid's favorite thing to do is look at the door and watch the traffic go by. Today the dogs decided they would join him. I feel so blessed everyday that I have a wonderful husband and a wonderful son. I can't really sing Lucy's praises today because while we were gone to Sam's today Lucy chewed up some of Reid's balls and put a hole in Reid's Mickey Mouse Ball house we just bought him. Justin is trying to repair the holes with some patches. Thank goodness the ball house has 8 blow up chambers and the holes are in the bottom of the house.

Justin and I thought it would be funny to see how his face would look if he grew a beard. He hasn't shaved in over a week. Not sure how much longer he will let it grow.

We will start packing next week as we get ready to leave for N. MS. and TN. to see family. We are super excited that we will get to spend time with Justin's brother Steve, Laurie and our nieces. I can't wait to see how Reid acts with the girls.

Tonight I am going to a girls night out with some friends from church. We have so much fun when we all get together. I am so glad Justin doesn't mind watching Reid while I get out for awhile.

I heard a great piece of news today. Gulfport is getting a Toys R Us.. I am so excited about this. Right before Christmas perfect timing.

Hope you have a great weekend..... It is raining here today

Ready to Play

Reid was up bright and early this morning. I guess he was excited about a cute little blonde and brunette he gets to play with today. We are headed to our friend Angela's house to play with Isabel and Claire. I guess I could tell the truth here and say I am super excited about the play date as well. We always have a good time and it is a great experience for Reid. He has done so well. He is pretty much a lone ranger though. He plays well by himself and loves to watch the other girls run and holler "there is a monster" the hollering doesn't bother him at all. But o lord don't let Claire cry because if she does then Reid will cry. I guess you could say Reid already likes older girls. O well we can talk about that in another 20 years or so. He can be a mama's boy for the rest of his life and I would be ok with that.

Does he look like he is excited to go and play?

Balls

Reid loves to play with balls. He is normally trying to crawl through the house with 2 balls; one in each hand. He loves to get matching balls and bang them together.

Since Reid has a love for balls; I told my friend Trina to buy Reid a bag of balls for his birthday. Also, because of Justin's love of Mickey Mouse and my love of no mess we found this Mickey blow up ball house for Reid to play with the 120 balls he now has.

Needless to see this has been a lifesaver for us today. Today is the first time Reid actually played by himself. We have had such a tough week that I am hoping this ball house will be an answered prayer for awhile.

The only thing is I think my living room has turned into a play room, but that is where we spend most of our time; so for now I guess I will just deal with it.

Here are some pictures and video from today with Reid playing with the balls for the first time. He was so busy playing with the balls we could hardly get him to look up at us.