Home Sweet Cabin

Home sweet cabin...

This cozy cabin was our home for four days on our recent vacation to the Smokies. It had been years since we'd had a real vacation, so this one was extra-nice. No hospitals or language barriers. Just a cute little boy and his family...

...some heavy machinery...
...and beautiful views of the mountains from our bedroom window and back porch.

Normally people might complain about having construction near their peaceful cabin.

But our boys couldn't have been happier. Their favorite thing was to play on the deck with their riding toys and watch the dump trucks back down the hill below our cabin.

We took it easy and enjoyed each other's company

We tickled and wrestled

We air-hockeyed

We even played a few holes of golf...sort of

(This golf game was somewhat addicting, even for a certain Grandmama.)

If you look carefully you can see Micah keeping up on his sports news

There were friendly bears...

...and silly little monkey with a cell phone

One of Nathan and Micah's other favorite activities was stair-climbing. (Not necessarily a favorite of the dads.)

The cousins had a blast together eating,

and playing,

and being just plain silly: Yo cousin! Yo cousin! Yo! Nate Dawg rockin' tha Gat-lin-biz-urg!

We even had a home-theater in the basement.

What did we watch??? Bob the Builder (Nathan's favorite)
Close encounters of the "digger" kind. Our son was in Caterpillar heaven.

Thank you, God, for the mountains, for Krispy Kreme donuts,

and for family vacations.

SNOW and CAKE

Snow plus Cake equals ... a very fun weekend
First, the snow

was beautiful. It blanketed everything,

so we put on our layers (every shirt and pair of pants this boy owns plus his John Deere boots),

and went out to play!
Everyone made a snow angel.




Nathan loved walking in the snow

and looking at the snow

and walking in the snow

--not so much falling in the snow--

giving hugs in the snow,

and especially walking and holding hands in the snow.

That in itself would make a perfect weekend, but there was more. There was CAKE!

We treated the birthday girl to a fancy cake from the coolest store in the boro.

It looked very pretty,

and although we were impressed

it didn't take long

before we tasted how good it was.

It was so good, we had to share it with Nathan.
Um, yeah, he liked it.

Later in the day we had some more good, silly play time.

This little boy loves hats. We had gotten our hat bin down before we went outside. After lunch he started bringing hats from the bedroom to the living room, one by one,and gradually piled them on

his mommy's head.

Nice hats, mommy. Happy Birthday!

Hope everyone was able to take time to enjoy the snow and your family this weekend.

Happy Birthday, Mommy!

Hi Mommy, It's me--Nathan.
Even though it's not until tomorrow, me and Daddy just wanted to go ahead and wish you a very happy birthday!

We both love you so much, and we want you to know how special you are to us. Thanks for taking care of us even though we're a bit goofy sometimes.
These are a few of my favorite things about you. I love it when you tickle me,

when you do fun things with me like baking cookies,

and most of all when you kiss me goodnight.

I don't want to admit it, but I'm even glad that you discipline me when I disobey.

Thank you for being such a wonderful mommy. Oh, and Daddy says he likes you a lot too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

Nathan's Playhouse

Well. . . it is not really a playhouse. . . more like a decorated box with doors. But Nathan LOVES to play in it.

Tonight after we put him to bed, Nathan was saying meow... meow... meow... which means he wanted his stuffed kitty with him in bed. We remembered that he had put kitty in his house earlier tonight, so Mark moved the house and saw . . .

. . . not just the kitty, but a large stash of toys, books, and clothes. We have noticed this before. He likes to take his favorite things into the playhouse. It is also a good place to hide his toys from Micah. So, we had seen it before, but tonight it cracked us up.

What's in the pile? Blue jeans, jacket,and tennis shoes from today; 4 books; Thomas the train flashlight; pajamas from his bag (from spending the night with Grandmama & Grandaddy); and KITTY.



Nathan continues to entertain us. He is a good little boy, and we enjoy all the silly little things he does. . . We love being his parents.

He loves wearing his boots. There is just something about a boy and his boots. They match everything--even pj's!

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New Pictures. . .

These are a few of my favorite faces. Enjoy. . .

Finally . . . Christmas pictures

Go to this link to see some of our Christmas pictures.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12586&id=1505181959&l=51771

Silly Boys. . .

Well, we have many, many, many pictures to share, but very little time to work on posting them. So to whet your appetite, here are two funny videos. I promise to catch up on the past few months.

Nathan loves to sing at all times. This particular night Mark was giving him a bath and they were singing together. I didn't get the best of the singing, but this is pretty darn cute.

Micah is really growing up. He is ten months old now and oh so funny! We're not sure where the time went. This video was taken one night from the back of our car. Uncle Nathan was "putting words in the mouth" of a sleeping Micah.