Beautiful ladies and handsome little men!

We went to the Opryland hotel and had a ball. I wanted to get some cute photos of the kids in teir outfits. There are a few extras of Emery. I loved how excited she was to see all the decorations! So sweet! Anyway, enjoy!







GG and Pops, Thank you for our fun Christmas clothes. We got so many compliments and the kids love them. Emery thought her dress was made for flying and flapped all over the Opryland hotel. Isa danced and played the lady and Liam and Colin just enjoyed their playtime. We love you and miss you. July can't get here fast enough!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! We love you all! Thank you for the blessing of a wonderful year full of family and fun. We are so blessed because we are loved by each of you. Thank you!

Beautiful!!

YEP! Not only is Christy talented, beautiful and a great mom, wife and sister, but she's also expecting #3! Wahoo! Congrats sis! We're so excited for your family!

WAHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Yup! We're all REALLY EXCITED!!!!! Congrats Nate, Mandy and Marley!!!

October Wedding

This past October I flew to Seattle to shoot my first wedding with my friend Mandy. If you haven't checked out my blog lately, look here. And to view the first few batches of wedding photos go to Mandy's web site at www.amandakayphotography.com. In other good news, for my birthday, Nic bought me the rights to my own photography website. Plans will be underway in January to launch this website and officially get my business underway. I couldn't be more excited. Thank you for helping, supporting and loving me along this journey. I still have SO much to learn and accomplish, but I am taking it all one step at a time and that is the right pace for now. I won't be announcing it on my photography's blog for a while, but I couldn't hold in the good news. So stay tuned.

Ok, you wore me down. Let me go look in my photos for something to add to this post. What post is complete with out a picture, right?!



My sister Ashley and me.


Cole with his cousin Crew.


My sweet boys!

starring Emery

this is officially em's favorite song. i thought you all might enjoy this rendition.

November!

This month has been a busy one and I am just now getting my photos loaded up! Our princess turned 6! She had a great birthday full of love! She had a full day starting with a princess package from Liam including a princess hat, story book that he wrote, and activity page that he created and a mini puppet show for her. Emery colored her a picture and Daddy and I gave her dates to the theatre. Later that day Morgan and I went to her school to eat lunch with her. Morgan also sang to her and gave her a rose. She was so happy. The little girl in the lunchroom with her is her best friend Christina.

Halloween

Christy threw the most fantastic Halloween party this year. Contests, good eats, sweet music with lots of dancing and best of all GREAT company. I wish I would have taken more photos of the guests but I didn't know many of them and didn't want to over step my grounds so maybe Christy can post some good ones. ;) I just thought I'd share some photos of what the family came as. Hope you all had an eventful Halloween full of fun activities. I'd like to hear each of your family traditions. What fun activities do you each partake of each Halloween?


Danny and Sandy from Grease. ( Jordan and Kimberly ) Fuuuiiiiit Feeeewwww Kimberly was smokin'.

Sunny and Cher ( Christy and Nic ) Spreading there good vibes and hippie love. :)

Daisy Duke, Toy Soldier and the Princess. ( Myself, Nathan and Marley )

And BEST of all the cutest little Chicken there ever was.

Our DisneyWorld Trip

We are back from the funnest vacation ever! Nic and I took the boys to Disney World over this past weekend. We drove down in about 12 hours and got to the hotel at about 4am, which gave us about 4 hours to sleep before getting up and going to the park. We took our time and went to the Magic Kingdom first. It was amazing! Well, let's just say that the kids loved it and Nic and I enjoyed every second of their joy. Plus we had fun on the rides too. hehe





Cole and Jackson loved the rides! They were even good sports about standing in the lines, which weren't too bad. I think they were enthralled with all that was going on around them. We went on It's a Small World, Pirates of the Carabean, The Haunted Mansion (they were so brave with that ride. When we left, Jackson kept saying 'it's not scary, it's just pretend'), we went on all the kids rides, and Cole went on Splash Mountain TWICE! He loved it. My little dare-devil!



We met a bunch of characters and even did a character lunch with the people from Disney's Clubhouse. We didn't know all of their names, but the boys still loved eating with fun characters walking around. I think meeting Mickey and Minnie was their favorite. Pooh bear was our favorite becasue he was so friendly and up-beat. He kissed Jackson and gave the boys hugs and really interacted with them.







Cole has had a new obsession with Stitch. We don't even own the movie, but he wanted nothing more than to meet him and get the stitch doll. So Stitch now goes everywhere with us. And yes, Emery, we think of you everytime we see him. :)













The next park we went to was Animal Kingdom. I didn't bring my big camera so I don't have pics now to share of that. I may someday.... check out facebook like next week and maybe I will have downloaded them by then. :)

We skipped Epcot this go round. Nic and I didn't think the boys would like that park as much as the others, so our last stop was Disney's Studios. This is where we had our character lunch and where we met a bunch of the characters, like Lightning McQueen! He was a hit! I rode (by myself) on the tower of terror and Aerosmith's Rocken rollarcoaster twice while Nic took the boys back to the hotel for a nap. Don't I have the best husband ever?! He rocks! And so did the rides.

The above picture is Cole going on the Star Tours ride. He loved that one too. Jackson was too small so he went to the Indiana Jones stunt show with Nic.










A last point of interest here are the hats we got for the boys. A friend suggested we get them and I am so glad we did. They still put them on and announce that they are Mickey Mouse and that there are two Mickeys. :) I love my boys and my family. We had a great time and are planning another trip in 2 years if anyone wants to join along in the fun! Loves!

Kimberly shared these great photos with me. I love that we have some of Great grandpa with the kids. That's so neat!

Oh such a little artist!

Jackson is seriously less than thrilled with me taking his picture. Cheeky boy!

I love sharing these fun times with family and friends!

Happy birthday Austin! Your cupcake cake was a hit! Loved it!

I love Cole's look here! SO CUTE!

Love the daddy time!

Thanks John and Becky for starting such a fun traditions and for being our Tennessee family!

I love this photo. Austin looks like a man on a mission!

Austin's all smiles at our house

Liam had a great time at his Go Fish performance. He love school and loves his teacher Ms Haygood! yay for a good experience!

"Are you kidding me" I'm not so sure Colin is a fan of camping...

Liam's cub scout campout was cold but lots of fun!


Emery and Isa had so much fun at the pumpkin patch and Emery loved being with the big kids!

Isa's friends and teacher at her pumpkin patch trip.

Mandy, I think it's time for a little mar bear date. We don't have any photos of her for the last few months and that's just not right, so check your schedule it's time for a date!