1st Birthday

It is hard to believe that Micah is 1 year old. I can't believe that a year ago on my 32 birthday I was having a C-section and got a baby for a present. What a gift it is to share my birthday with my sweet boy. Micah I love you sweet angel baby and you will always hold a special place in my heart. I hope you had a terrific birthday

Christmas Traditions

Our holiday traditions begin by decorating our Christmas tree and our house. This year with a little one around, not to many decorations were put out. Every year Mark and I have been going to Zoolight Safari, this began while we were dating and we have carried over the tradition every year. Noah participated in the children's Christmas program at church, this year it was called Cookin' Up Christmas Where Jesus is the Main Ingredient. He did a terrific job, but he had to get rid of the hat 1/2 way through and I think he took off his Shepperd costume too.l We traveled to South Carolina the weekend before Christmas to celebrate with Mark's family. We had a terrific time with his family. Ever since I can remember I use to go to my Grandmas house in Christmas Eve and spend time with family eating and opening presents. Well we have started that tradition with our kids by going to their Mimi's house. But we usually do it in the afternoon. We open gifts, eat dinner, prepare for church and it never fails as we are leaving for church Santa comes through the neighborhood on a firetruck. After church we came home and Noah set out Cookies and Milk for Santa. I believe Mimi gave him some cheese to set out for the reindeer. Mark and worked frantically to put together a Little Tykes car and A smart cycle. Mark said why didn't we do this sooner...I replied because the kids are always around and we have had no time. The next morning Micah awoke first and he loved his car from Santa. We had to wake up Noah. We spent the morning opening presents and having breakfast. We ate biscuits, eggs, toast, bacon, and grits. I made real grits, not instant and the actually turned out good, expect I made enough for an army. That afternoon Mimi and PawPaw came over and we had Christmas Dinner. It was a great Christmas!!

Mexican Thanksgiving

For those of you who don't know and those of you that do we spent Thanksgiving in Cancun with the most of my mom's family. There was 13 of us total and boy did we have a ball. Talk about excitement..getting through customs in Mexico was fun. I believe there was 21 or 22 pieces of luggage. And by the time we came home I believe we had 25 pieces. We spent a wonderful 7 days in Cancun at Moon Palace. Mark and I spent a day at Tulum, which was breathtaking, we visited a sister resort that was right up the road from where we stayed this summer, we walked out to the beach and looked over to see the Barcelo Maya!! We snorkeled in an estuary in the freezing rain! Mark says it wasn't freezing, but I was cold. We took a boat ride to the Isla Mujeres!! Noah got sea sick on the boat ride over, but he was able to fall asleep on the way back after dancing the night away on the boat or maybe it was the last shot of Tequila :) Mark went scuba diving for the first time with my dad. We had quite an experience when we rented a golf cart and drove around the Island shopping. Noah thought it was odd when we had to pay to go potty!! Well, if you wanted a clean potty with a seat anyways! Mark and I went out to eat one night and I got a nice seafood meal, well that was until I noticed the suction cup things!!! Noah enjoyed his time with his older cousins and we weren't really sure which one was the kid in the pool. I believe GG and Big Paw Paw took in all the chaos, but also relaxed some too. Noah did go snorkeling in the ocean with his daddy, PawPaw and cousins, while of course Mommy, Mimi, GG, and Micah went to the Mexican Mall!! We had a great time, but we unfortunately did not get any turkey!! The good news is Mark and I made it home just in time to see the Auburn/Alabama Game and I will just end with a WAR EAGLE!!!!!!