Well the blog is finally working again! I know its been awhile since I've posted so here's an update! Ben had rotations so we stayed in Tennessee for the holidays! It was our very first Christmas with just our family. We missed our families very much but we also enjoyed having our own Christmas and starting our own traditions with our kids! Kayson and Cade got TONS of legos and this is one of Kayson's many creations! He has a huge imagination when it comes to building legos. He builds some pretty cool stuff! Kayson is reading really well and doing great in school! Cade is loving spending time with Griffin all day every day. He does anything I need and takes such sweet care of Griff. He is always singing to him and kissing his hands. He is a funny kid. He comes up with some pretty funny stuff! He talks like a southerner! He says aint all the time! Griff is SUPER hyper and wild. He is all over the place and he can't even crawl yet. He never holds still, will not cuddle or snuggle at all, and he cries all the time if I'm not holding him! However if I'm holding him he's super happy! It makes Ben so mad. Hell be crying with Ben and as soon as I take him he stops crying and turns and looks at Ben with a big grin on his face! Ben hates it! I can't leave him at all with a baby sitter or even with Ben. I've left him twice with Ben and both times he was screaming so hard by the time I got home he was hyperventilating. But I love that kid to death! To me he is the sweetest little guy. He is a tease. He loves to be tickled and teased! He is almost crawling. Any day now. He gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth but hasnt quite figured it out yet! He finally cut his first tooth last week! He is 6 months old now and weighs 21 lbs. 27 inches long! He has slowed down on the weight gain thank goodness! My arms can't carry that much weight all day every day! He's killing me! Ben is doing great in school! We are so excited we are finally on the home streatch it seems like. Just a little over a year left. It seemed like we would never get to this point. Anyway life is great here in Tennessee! We miss everyone and wish we could see ya sooner but we will see ya this summer!




He looks so handsome in his sunday clothes!

Everyone thinks Daddy is the best DS player. They all like to sit and watch him play, even Griff!

Cade sure is sweet with Griffin. He loves holding him.

This is Griff's attempt to crawl! He doesn't like to use the knees. Pretty tough little baby!

I think he can hold the plank longer than Ben!

Sorry I have tried to post pictures on the blog for the last month or so and it hasnt been working. So I will create a new blog and let ya know the address! Sorry Grandma! I love ya!

Halloween!

Wow we have been so busy lately! Sorry it's taken so long to post but here it is Han! Kayson was practicing his picture taking abilities! He always wants to use the camera!

Yesterday we were just hanging out at home and the boys made a big bed to snuggle with Griff!

Cade is so funny! We caught him doing this last week. He is tickling his armpit with one hand and I asked him what he was doing? He said playing the guitar! He plays an awesome armpit guitar!

They love to pretend to play their guitars!

My sweet baby found his thumb! I don't want to break him of the habit later on but it sure is pretty dang cute for the time being!

Here is my cute little Giraffe for Halloween!

Here is Cade as Thor!

And Kayson as Captain America!

Fierce!

I am so proud of Kayson and how he's doing in school! He was the top AR Reader in his entire grade, and he was 23rd in the whole school from K-8th grade! I'm so proud of him. He is reading pretty well! Here is his name on the board at school! He also got student of the month for November for preK- 2nd grade! Way to go Kays!

We carved pumpkins with Grandma and Grandpa Boyle when they were here but they went bad before Halloween so second time around we decided to paint! Much better!

This picture has a sweet story. I was kinda being a mean mom one day, and Kays was being a mean brother. Cade was totally left out and crying all day. I felt so bad for him. Well we went to the store and came home and I was once again yelling at him and made him sad so he went and laid by Griffin and was holding his hand. I went out to get the groceries and came back in and poor Cade was crying to Griff telling him that "nobody loves me." He said, "nobody wants to play with me." It broke my heart. Poor guy. But I had to take a picture cause I thought it was so sweet that he was confiding in his little brother!

Griffin's Blessing and Pumpkin Patch Fun!

So I'm finally posting and there is a ton of pictures. I probably take too many but I sure love my boys! Griffin was blessed on Oct. 9, 2011! It was a fun day! We had our good friends Luke and Kelsey Allen come from Harrogate and Grandma and Grandpa Boyle came too! He was happy through the whole blessing so that was a relief! We have been so busy with life lately! Here's what we've been up to!

He is missing a shoe but I wasn't about to wake him up to put it back on!

As you can see we only had one happy child at the time, and the funny thing is he's usually the onry one!

He's so fat its easy to love on him!

He hates being all dressed for church but he looks so cute I have to put him through the torture.

Griff absolutely loves his big brothers! He gives them pretty big smiles all the time!

We found a really fun pumpkin patch and corn maze for the boys. They sure had fun with Grandma and Grandpa! Daddy didn't get to go though so we went back the next weekend with Dad!

Cade's straining to hold up his pumpkin!

Kays was pretty proud of his pumpkin! He searched for the biggest one he could find!

Dang aren't my boys good lookin! Gotta love Kayson's cheesy smile stage!

Kayson loved these pipe slides! Him and Daddy were racing!

The boys loved this! It was a corn air gun. That boy shoved a corn on the cob in it and the shoot it at some targets! Of course the boys loved it!

Yesterday we went to the Cumberland State Park which is absolutely gorgeous. We had some family pictures and the kids wanted to play with the geese afterwards! It was lots of fun except the geese ate all our lunch!

This goose just ripped Cade's sandwich right out of his hand!