Summer Recap Part 2..

I thought I might want to finish recapping our summer before Christmas gets here! Here are a few other highlights of our summer..

Faith and her cousin Madison got their ears pierced...

Faith beforehand.

and my poor baby girl afterwards.
The crying only lasted about 20 seconds, she is a champ!

She already realizes that beauty is pain, ha! My brother and Madison.
Madison and her daddy!
Here are the pretty girls!!

A friend of ours from college and former teammate of Jeff's got married this summer..
Here are a few of the boys acting silly as always!

Man, my baby cleans up well :) A group of us with Coach Dick Reynolds and his wife Ellen.

We had to cut Faith's tail, ha! I have never seen anything like this. She had a strand of hair in the back and on top that would grow faster than the rest of her hair. But since she has curls you don't notice the longer strand on top, just this straight piece in the back. We won't mention any names but we know someone else very close to us that has the same thing, haha!

Nana bought Trey a new bicycle.

Trip to my parents cabin in the woods!

Faith's first ride on a 4 wheeler. She looks a little scared, she was holding on for dear life. My dad wanted to take her for a ride, look at him laughing, he is loving it. After the first ride she kept wanting to get back on, she loved it.

Faith is a little too dressed up to be playing on 4 wheelers and in the woods huh?! :)

Trey has Papa's binoculars in hand and ready to do some deer hunting!

Trey and Faith hanging out on the deck.

Faith loves to play in the rain

Mom and Faith

You can tell he's a city boy! We go out to the country and all he is worried about it fixing a video game controller, ha! He actually had a good time out there in the middle of nowhere, we got to ride 4 wheelers and my dad showed him around the land and all his paths.

My brother Chad and his wife Jessica welcomed a baby boy, Wyatt Alan!

Getting his little feet stamped!
Chad and his two sons!

Chad with all 4 of his kids! I think they're done, ha!

A highlight of Trey's summer was getting to hang out with his cousins. Here is Trey hugging on his cousin Austin.

Trey's 1st Day of School!

Trey started school today and I had to come to the realization that my "baby" isn't a baby anymore. All he talked about all summer long was going to school and how excited he was to meet his new friends and teachers.

Here he is on his first day..(he is still a little tired, ha)

On the way to school, he is so excited!

So far he is loving his classroom :)
Trey at the introduction assembly. The principal asked for all the new students to stand up and be acknowledged. So Trey stands up then walks up onto the stage and looked out at everyone and smiled, haha. I'm so mad I don't have a picture or video clip of that, it was too funny.

Throughout the assembly Trey kept looking back and waving to Jeff, Faith and I. I think he was just making sure we hadn't left him yet. :)

The teachers were so nice, they even let Faith play with Trey in the classroom.

Getting ready to leave after his first school day. He LOVED school, as soon as we walked into the classroom to pick him up, he shouted at Jeff and I "I LOVE MY SCHOOL". Note the little girl behind Trey, she is not enjoying her first day at school!

I think he enjoyed school!They were so excited to see each other! Throughout the day all Faith wanted to do was play in Trey's room, she missed him so much.

Opening his "First Day of School Presents"

Here he is as soon as we walk in the door. Clothes off game in hand!

They were inseparable the rest of the day. Trey has his sister and game, life is good!

I'm Back!!! Here is Part 1 of our summer recap..

We had such a crazy and busy summer I wasn't even able to fit in some blogging time. Lots of positives and fun times and also some sad times. First, we bought a new vehicle, Cadillac Escalade, which Jeff adores. Bought a new house which I adore, ha. Faith turned ONE, which is still hard to believe. We prepped Trey into getting ready for his first year of school which he is PUMPED about and can't wait. My brother and sister in law welcomed a baby boy named Wyatt. And found out that my baby sister is having a baby of her own. Boy, am I feeling OLD!! We had plans to take a trip to California and Las Vegas with our friends Bryan, Jane and baby Hudson for a friend's wedding, but had to cancel it because at that same time frame we were closing on our house. Bittersweet I know!! They have promised though to come visit us next summer. Just had to put that out there so they know we haven't forgotten, haha.

Here is a picture of our new home (minus the minivan and ladder)

It is so sad this is the only picture we have of our house. This was taken by the inspector that performed the home inspection. And the nice weather we had that day really helps the house look better huh? ha

Here is Jeff's baby :)
On a sad note I lost one of the most important people in my life and that was my grandmother. It is still so unreal to me, I just can't believe she is gone. She taught me about strength and to trust in my faith. I have never and will never know a person like her, she was the strongest and bravest person I ever knew. Mema, you will truly be missed, but will always be with me.

Another sad note Jeff also lost someone close to him. During my grandma's funeral he got a call that his uncle passed away. He was only 55!!

We had some very sad times during our summer vacation home this year, but we were glad we were there and not thousands of miles away.

Back on a positive note...Faith turned ONE and is just running around everywhere. She now has 8 teeth, loves learning new words and still wants to follow Trey everywhere he goes. I try to mold her into my little princess, but she tosses the barbies and baby dolls aside for the footballs and basketballs. Go figure!! And I am FRIGHTENED that she is going to take after her daddy somewhat in size. We went from a size 3 shoe to a 5 and now she wears a 6. Daddy wears a size 17 please Lord don't do that to my baby. She is my little chunky monkey though and I am thankful every day that God blessed us with her.

Here are her one year pictures:

We also went swimming with our wonderful friends The McClures this summer. Oh my did Faith LOVE the water. She didn't want to get out! Trey always loved the water too, but for some odd reason the past 2 summers he was not having it. He told us he was scared, we're still not sure what that is all about. We spent lots of time trying to coax him in the water.

Here Faith is rocking her bikini

Ahh milk break :)Here, Trey looks like he is all ready to go..

Testing the water, we're good so far..

Ahh we're in...he's happy...

BUT not for long..do you see how scared he is? So not like him, poor guy. Kori is wondering what the heck his problem is, haha

Here is Kori and Kruz playing in the water, with Faith in the background kicking up her feet, loving life. :)Please notice in this picture...do you see Jeff pulling Faith away from Trey? That was NOT Faith holding onto Trey, it was Trey holding on to Faith because he wanted HER to hold him up. He thought he was going to drown. HAHA!!! Priceless.And this is where he ended up staying the rest of the dayHere is Jeff with Kyran and Kori. We love spending time with the McClure family. It is always entertaining. :)