These four little people are the light of our lives. God has blessed us with our wonderful Grandkids. Luke age 6, Eli age 3, and Nathaniel soon to be 3, and our little Emily 7 month old. Sometimes this year we will be joined by our newest addition Natalie. Luke is our little brainy kid who started kindagarten reading at a 2nd grade leval. He is the only kindagarten who is able to check out books from the school library because of this. Eli and Nathaniel. Oh my haha, these two will keep you on your toes. Nathaniel is fast as a jet and we call him our little monkey boy because of his ability to climb anything. E as we call Eli is the charmer and sly as he can be you put these two together and lol its never a dull moment. Than our little Em, Emily is our little princess and as sweet as they come. These are our babies and they are our world.

God has brought us through a lot this last year. 2011 was trying to say the least. We went through a lot of trials but was blessed beyond measure. I'm looking forward to this year of 2012 and what God has in store for us. I cant wait to meet our newest little grand daughter, make new memories in our new home and just enjoy what God has in store.

I decided to go ahead and start posting some pictures of the new house so you could see where we started and how far we've come and then I will post what it looks like when we are done. The first picture is of the bathroom when we bought the house. UGLY not counting the fact that the floor had water damage and we had to totally take it down to the studs in the walls and to the floor joyces. We put new instalation in the walls, new floor joyces, new dry wall and paint. When we are done and have the new vanity and stuff in I will post those. The second picture is how the bathroom looked when they started the major renovation. The Third picture is of what will be the master bedroom. It had these ugly wafer board walls and we put in dry wall on the cieling and walls. We have painted it since Ive taken these pitures the 4th pic is the same room before we painted it after we had put the drywall in. We have done all this work our selves with the help of some very dear people. I cant wait to post the finished results for you to see. More to come I just wanted to give you a taste.

I borrowed these from my daughters FB page so any relatives that might see these please don't print or copy because we have to have her permission. But she did this photo shoot of Nathaniels 1 year pictures and these are just a couple of them and I thought that they were so cute that I just had to share them with you especially my SP friends whom might not see them else where. Isn't he just a cutie. Hard to believe that he's the same little guy that just a year ago could fit his daddy's wedding ring on his arm up to his shoulder. Sure do love this little guy

Memorial Day Weekend

I'm just loving being able to spend so much time with these little guys. I mean just look at those faces have you seen any cuter kids. I'm sunk, a gonner, wrapped right around those little fingers. We had such a good time Memorial weekend. Food, fun, and family what else could you ask for. Hmmmm seems to me that life was meant to be this way gotta love it.

Easter weekend

This was some more pictures of Easter weekend. I just get such a kick out of Luke and his many antics. In the top picture he decided to give me and his mom a concert and began to play and sing to us. It was hilarious. The middle picture is of all of them on Easter morning. The bottom one was saturday and he had his juice bottle in in back pocket it was so funny it looked like he had a bottle of liquir hanging out of his back pocket. Silly boy.

The weight thing.

This was the day of Nathaniels birthday and we had just arrived. I still can't believe that our little guy is already a year old. I decided to post this picture of us to remind myself where I'm at in my wieght and how far I still need to go. All my SP buddies will understand that thought. I'm always obsessing about it but haven't until recently really been trying at losing it. Even though this hasn't been the greatest of weeks in that area I've really been trying harder recently. Not there yet but I'm getting better.

Nathaniels Birthday!

We celebrated our little Nathaniels first birthday today. It's amazing how far that little guy has came. We laughed as he tasted his cake, bit his Mom's finger in the process, hey he didn't know she stuck it in his mouth with cake on it and that was it lol. The pictures above show litte E (Eli) looking cool in his shades and hat. Nathaniel getting some time with Papa and the face of one happy little boy. Happy Birthday Nathaniel Meega and Papa love you.

January 30,2010 Winter Wonderland!

I couldn't resist getting out in the yard and taking pictures of this beautiful snow. Its amazing to me how a little snow can change your view of things. The same dreery yard can all of a sudden become majestic.

Christmas 2009 "Nathaniel"

We had a blast with our little Nathaniel on Christmas day. Papa made him a rocking horse and he of course loved it. He's still a little small for it but he will grow into it just like our oldest grandson Luke did his. I guess now he has to make Eli on once they get to Arkanasas. The little guy wasn't feeling the greatest that day but he sure did make us laugh just the same. I can't wait untill next year when all three of our grandsons will be here for the holidays. Now thats what Christmas is about.

What a great holiday season this is going to be for our family. We started it out with a great Thanksgiving with our Son, Daughter-in-law, and our newest grandson Nathaniel. Later that day to be joined by Great Gram. Lots of food and being with family. One of the things that make it so special is I know that by this time next year all of our kids and grandkids will be living in the state of Arkansas and the holidays can finally be shared together by all. The other thing that makes it so special is the circumstances behind or little Nathaniel. We thank God for him everyday. Today I came to my sons house to watch Nathaniel while he worked and our daughter-in-law slept. Well they had there tree up and I couldn't resist taking pictures of him under the tree. Next weekend we get to see the other two boys while they house hunt. Hmmm I bet this means more pictures.

"Princess Beauty"

When I got home from Chris & Erica's today I had a package from Luke & Eli for my birthday. When I opened it up we had a new addition to our family "Princess Beauty" ( as named by Luke) a Build-a-Bear picked out clothes and all by Luke. She is pink with a beautiful purple dress with a matching necklase and purse. And when I squeez her hand I hear Lukes voice saying "I love you Meega" and if that wasn't enough he painted me a master piece. Thanks boy's Meega loves her present and will cherish them forever!!!!!

NATHANIEL..... What a joy. Its hard to believe that this little guy started out at 2lbs 6ozs. Look at him now. Since I've been off of work I've spent alot of time with the little guy and he never seizes to amaze me. Even when he was in NICU from the very beginning this little guy has always smiled. He has got such a good personality. When he smiles his whole face smiles. He tries so hard to talk to us and it just cracks me up to see him make little circles with his mouth trying to form words but nothing but sounds come out. Coo's, oohs, and ahh's is his vocabulary right now and its so cute. Your getting big our little man. Here in just a few days you will be six months old.

A week of first's

Our daughter and her family came in for our oldest grandsons 4th birthday all the way from the Washington DC area. They live in the town of Bowie Maryland so we haven't got to share in many of his special events in life. While here we had alot of firsts to happen. They flew into the Little Rock airport so we met them in Russellville @ Cracker Barrell to eat. On the way to our house Luke rode with Meega & Papa which is the first time he has ever got to do that. Since he doesn't live close by we don't get many of the simple pleasures like that so this was really a treat for us. We also had our first "sleepover" as he called it when he slept two nights in the bed with us. He also camped for the first time in our back yard with his Papa & Daddy. We took him to The Janet Huckabee Nature center where he fished for the first time with his brand new spider man fishing pole. He didn't catch anything that day but the very next day Papa took him and his Daddy out on the Paris city lake on his first canoe ride and he caught his first fish. A pretty good sized catfish which wieghed 3-4 lbs on his spiderman fishing pole. The only one who caught anything might I add. He had a great birthday which was military themed at his request and he got to spend the day with one of our local service men who gave up his saturday to make a little boys dream of spending his birthday with a real soldior in a real uniform. Thanks Sonny Watts for doing this for him. There was also many other firsts. Eli while visiting us said Daddy for the first time and the two oldest boys got to meet their new cousin Nathaniel. And Nathaniel got to meet Luke, Eli, Aunt Laura and Uncle Aaron for the first time. This morning was a sad day as we had to say goodbye when they drove away on the way to the airport. I don't think they seen me cry as I headed back into the house to put away all the toys once again untill they come back to Meega and Papa's once more. Or untill our little Nathaniel is old enough for us to once again get them back out. Yep it was a week of first. But I believe in prayer and I'm believing it won't be the last.

Yesterday me and Papa went and seen our little guy. He is getting so big. We had a blast with him watching him laugh and try to get his tongue to to do something but just lay there. I swear the little guy was trying hard to talk. He is so sweet. Just two more days and he will get to meet his cousins Luke & Eli who are coming in all the way from Bowie MD. I can't wait to have all our kids together at one time.

This is our little Maryland boys. Mom and Dad took them to Fort McHenry and they said Luke was absolutely thrilled since he is so facinated now with the American flag and the Army stuff. Two adorable little guys. Meega and Papa can't wait to see them again. Just a few more weeks and they will finally be here for a visit again.

This the day! Woohoo it is finally here. Our little Nathaniel is legaly ours. We went to court today. It was funny when they told us they were getting him I was so shocked I couldn't do anything but just sit there with my mouth open saying wow. I didn't cry at all. I went home after seeing him and finally broke down just thinking about him. But today, I wasn't expecting it but right there in the court room when the judge told us we could go in and get a family picture with out warning after looking at the judge and asking him is he ours, he said yes he is I just started crying and couldn't stop. I didn't realize it but I geuss for the last three months I've been holding my breath. He turned three months old monday, All 7lb 6oz of him is ours. Oh glorious day.