Update-- Sorry it has been a while!

Happy 30th Birthday to Mommy! We really did not take any good pictures for my birthday but he and I were playing around on Monday and got this one. I think 30 looks rough on me!!



We love Football time in Tennessee! Last weekend Mike had to entertain some buyers and so we got to take them into the skybox for the game. It is the way to go when it comes to games! I love my husband's job. Now if I could just get a job we would be doing good!


Here is the newest outfit I have made MJ. Since I have gotten such great feedback, this product may be available in the future for sale. ( We will see, my licensing hubby is still needing some arm twisting!)


Our little boy is growing up.. he but Mike's cap on as he watched TV. I just can't believe how fast he is growing up!




On Sept 5, Mimi and Papa took MJ for the weekend to Nashville. They took him to see Thomas the Tank Engine, his favorite! He got to take a little ride on Thomas and got a picture with Thomas. He had such a wonderful time and of course he came home with lots of souvenirs. We will get pictures up as soon as we can teach Mimi and Papa to send them!


First Day of Pre-school at Farragut COC. Got to love these looks! They said it would take to weeks until he would like it and they were right. He loves going to school now.. I don't get these looks anymore when I say it is time for school.




Warning for all Moms... This is what you get when you spill bubbles on the floor and slip in it. Pull-ups will not stand up for a battle with the floor!! And if this should happen to you.. change QUICKLY or ELSE!!!


Since it was about time for MJ to start school we decided to spend a day at Dollywood just playing. I was shocked when all the rides said that he was 36" and he got to ride some of the big kid rides. It was a great Mommy and MJ day!





For the Fourth of July, we went to Columbia, SC to Aunt Granny Franny's home. We had so much fun. Most of the time was spent in the pool, but we found out also that MJ loves fireworks! He would not go to sleep on the 4th cause he wanted to stay up and watch the fireworks. Also we tried to have a family picture taken in the matching outfits I made us, but none of the pictures turned out very well. We can't wait to go back next year!







Here we are at our favorite restaurant, Willy's, having lunch to celebrate Father's Day.


Memom and Aunt Granny Franny took us all one day to Dollywood. It was a hot day but we all had so much fun. MJ and his cousins loved playing in the kid zone in the water.

Happy 35th Anniversary Mimi and Papa

This weekend for Mimi and Papa's 35th Anniversary we went to the Omni Hut in Smryna ( which is were Mimi and Papa met) so we went and had a wonderful yummy dinner there.

Here is our family all together.

and Mimi and Papa

Here is MJ and Mimi by the waterfall.. our table was right beside it so MJ stayed there playing in the water for most of the night.

First Trip to the Zoo

Here we are at our first trip to the Knoxville Zoo. We had so much fun!!. MJ loved seeing all the animals, excepted they all were called NENE (for our Neyland)

Here we are right after we went in. Daddy took the picture for us, but he was there too.


Watching the birds very closely. He loved the little ducks swimming.


Here is were we got to brush the Sheep. MJ just loved that.


It was a hot day so we loved going under the mist beside the elephants and zebras.


Our absolute favorite part of the day was riding the camel.


And feeding the camel.


Here MJ is doing what he does best.. climbing. We had to pull him off of things all day that he kept trying to climb.


Here Mj is watching the red pandas. He loved that part too, in fact he got a stuffed red panda to take home to remember the day with.


Here is the beautiful red panda.

Rest of Vacation

Here are some pictures and videos of our vacation. We did not get to update it as much as we would have liked since we kept getting sand in the new camera. MJ loved playing outside of our condo. There were so many lizard for him to watch. Thank goodness there were not any alligators out though since apparently a few weeks before we got there once had tried to go up the stairs of the condo we were in.

I am convinced that MJ will be a handful around the car when he gets just a little bit older. He fights to get in the drivers seat and if he has the keys he knows how to put them in, he just doesn't know yet how to turn. Once he finds that out we are in trouble!!

MJ loved the Beach!! Here he is all in his Tennessee orange on the beach having fun.
The beaches in Sanibel were so pretty!!

Day 1 of Vacation

Today was a day for first.. my first time in the pool (well since I was a baby but I don't remember that) and then my first time to go on the beach. Both I did not like in the beginning because I was scared, but the pool I warmed up to.. the beach I like the sand but still not so much on the ocean.

Sanibel here we come!

Yesterday we drove from Knoxville to Sanibel Island in Florida. It was my first road trip and it was a long one! We left at about 6:30am and arrived at 7:45 pm. But I was great, I didn't even cry once! I just kept asking for more and more of my nursery rhymes CDs to be played and I was good to go. Here are a few pictures from the Florida welcome center.

A fun Day at the Park

The other day mommy and I went to the park just down the street from our house. It is a great park since it is surrounded by the lake. We took a picnic lunch and sat and watched all the sailboats and the birds. Then we walked down past the little beach area and played in the sand there and then we went to the playground. I had so much fun! I just can't wait to go back again!








Sorry for some reason the computer would not turn my pictures right side up.

Catch up

Happy Mother's Day! We had such a good time for Mother's Day. A couple days befor my Mimi and Papa came to visit to take mommy and I shopping to get some things for our vacation. Also while they were there I had my first bad accident.. I fell off the front step onto the concrete when I was going out to feed the duckies which we do daily. I cut up my forehead, my nose and under my eye.. looked rough. Then Papa took me fishing in the pond in front of our house which was my first time to fish. It was not my favorite thing since I was kind of scared are the fish, but the ice cream truck came by and they bought me ice cream so I loved that. Then daddy suprised mommy with a new Mac computer for mother's day which is great for all the pictures and videos of me. She is still learning how to use it but we will eventually get it and do a better job on updating everyone. Also for Mother's day after church we went to our favorite restaurant overlooking the lake. We could have stayed there all day since it was so pretty, but I was getting tired so we went home for nap time. Then we headed over to Uncle Eric's and Aunt Desiree's house for a early dinner with Mema and Grandaddy. I went kind of wild playing with my cousins. Knox and Maggie were on the floor wresting and I kept jumping on top of them.. everyone said that the three of us were going to be TROUBLE in years to come! I hope that all other mom's out there had a wonderful day too.<





Leaving school.. well I am sadly having to say goodbye to The Nanny's. Mommy got laid off the other day supposedly due to the economy and a lack of work but that is questionable.. it seems like it was more politics (mommy was told by a head person that maybe her place was at home with me since she had been off with me for a week in March, and then also the 2 single moms were also laid off and that was it.. seems a little strange to me), but no matter what at least she is now going to be at home with me until she finds a new job, which might be a while since there is not much out there. I am sad to say goodbye to my Miss Roxanne and my girlfriend Skyer and my buddy Ryan and all my other friends, but I am happy to spend more time with mommy since I am a momma's boy. We have lots of things already planned for our time together like going on vacation with Mimi and Papa to Sanibel Island, then going to the parks and the zoo and then going with daddy to SC in July and lots of more stuff that we will make sure to feel you in on as it happens.

Happy Birthday Daddy and Neyland(aka NENE)!! On April 26th we celebrated Daddy's 33rd Birthday and Neyland's 5th birthday. To celebrate Daddy's birthday we went to the UT baseball game. It was so much fun, but really hot!!
(pictures to come)

Happy Birthday to Grandaddy and Maggie! On April 14th my cousin Maggie turned 8 and then on the 15th my Grandaddy turned 60, so to celebrate we went to the Olive Garden with the whole family and had such a good time.


Happy Easter! The week before Easter church had an Easter egg hunt and so we went to that (which was really my first time hunting eggs) I had so much fun. I figured out if you squeeze the eggs as you find them stuff pops out and I love it when chocolate comes out! The for Easter we went to my Mimi's and Papa's in Nashville for Easter weekend since it was my Uncle Chip's birthday. Then we had easter brunch,I got a basket of goodys at their house and had another Easter egg Hunt and then went home to see what the Easter bunny had brought me there. Then my Mema and Grandaddy came down and broght me a wagon of Eastter stuff. I was worn out by the end of the day.
(pictures to come)

Hospital time.. on the first Friday of March I ended up running a small fever, so I stayed home from school. I was a little sluggish over that weekend but by that next Monday morning I was REALLY sick! Mommy got me into see my doctor and as soon as Dr. Padgett saw see rushed me back and started checking on me. Her initial exam she said she thought I either had the flu, pnuemonia or rota virus and order testing for those. As each test was done each one came back positive and since I had it all and I was so weak she sent me to stay at Children's Hospital. At first they thought I would be there a day or so but it ended up I stayed a week. We were quarantined in the room since the flu and the rota virus were both so contagous. It is not easy not coming out of a room for a week and having an IV attached to you at all times. At one point I found it fun to try to climb the windows. But after a week I got out and was back to normal. Mom was not too happy though that I got the flu and the rota virus vaccine and I still got both. Here are some pictures of my stay.
(pictures to come)

Happy 3rd Birthday Knox! On Feb 26 we went for my first visit to Chuckie Cheese. I think it still might be a little bit before I am really ready for that place. But I did have fun this time.






Here I am doing my usual playing. I love the dishwasher!!


Mommy and Daddy celebrated their 5th Anniversary on Feb. 7 and I went to Mimi and Papa's for the weekend and had so much fun. Later I will have to upload a video of me and some sprinkles.. but for now Happy Anniversary to Mommy and Daddy.