Melia Turns Two......

or at least she did on October 1st! Here are a few pictures from Melia's birthday party. She picked "Dora" for her theme and we had a really good time!

This is actually on her birthday before she went to her first Puggles class! She loves Puggles and was so excited!

Here are all three kids, ready for AWANA! Bryce is in Sparks, Brant is in Cubbies and Melia is now in Puggles!

Melia getting ready for her big party!

SO SILLY!

Me, trying to get a picture of all three of them!

I don't think they all ever look the same direction at the same time! Oh well!

Grandmama and Melia dancing and singing the "Happy Birthday" song!

My family!

Cooper enjoying his lunch!

Eating lunch!

Melia's Dora Cake

Instead of blowing out her candle, she coughed it out!

Big Sissy and Little Sissy

Eating her cake and loving it!

Excited about something!

Opening her presents!

Here is a video of Melia on her birthday!

Bryce's Birthday (8/18)

Okay, so Bryce's birthday was a month ago, but I am just now putting up pictures. I really would like to become more consistent with my blogging. I am just going to have to figure out a better schedule or something!

For his birthday, this year, we let him invite three friends over to eat dinner, go bowling, go to Pelican's for a snowball, spend the night and go to church the next day! He picked Mitchell, Jarred and Logan. They had so much fun together and were really good!

"The Boys" eating dinner at Ragazzi's

Aunt Bebbie & Cooper patiently waiting for their food!

Grandmama & Melia posing together

Uncle Robert and Aunt Seder joined the party as well!

After we ate at Ragazzi's we went to Buffaloe Lanes for some bowling and game room time!

Check Bryce out!

Look at Mitchell's form!

Bryce just found out that he was getting a Wii from Mema!

Brant and Daddy playing in the game room.

Jarred counting all his tickets!

This is Bryce on the morning of his birthday. We got him a new study Bible.


This is the cookie cake that he wanted for his birthday at school. Mrs. Lisa made it, and it was REALLY good!

Mitchell & Bryce helping pass out the sweet stuff!

Stone Mountain - Part 3

This is the view from the bottom!

Bryce and Brant at the waterfall.

Bryce playing in the creek.

Brant playing in the creek.

Daddy & Melia having fun in the creek!

Jason pretending to eat a crawfish.

View from the Blue Ridge Parkway on the way home!

The boys were asleep and missed the whole Blue Ridge Parkway!

Stone Mountain - Part 2

This is how Melia "hiked" the 5 miles.

Melia even took her nap while we were hiking! ( Such a hard life!)

The boys on top of the mountain.

Jason, Angela, Jarred & Logan on the mountain.

Melia is just too cute with her bandana on!

Brant always being silly!

The view from the top!

Looking pretty cool!

Camping at Stone Mountain

Get ready for picture overload! We took a lot of pictures during this trip, so I will do three posts in order to share some of them with you! The weekend before school started for Bryce, we took a little trip to Stone Mountain State Park. We had a great time! We stayed for two nights, ate really good meals, hiked 5 miles (Brant did SO good!), and played in the creek! We went with the Taylor's and had a very fun, relaxing time together. It was a great trip to end the summer with. We had perfect weather the whole weekend! It was cool at night and in the morning and not too hot during the day!

Brant, Bryce, Melia, Jarred & Logan our firt "chilly" morning!

I am not sure Melia was really awake yet!

Melia playing in the creek.

They were all sitting in the really cold water!

Bryce seeing how long he could put his head in the cold water!

Melia loving on Mommy!

The boys setting up for a leaf race!